News and Announcements
- Experts: Money alone can’t solve mental health access issues in rural jails (KWGS Public Radio Tulsa)
- Narcan vending machine available to public in Cassopolis (News Channel 3)
- See someone in crisis? You don't have to call the police. Here are alternatives. (Michigan Radio)
- Cops & Clinicians: The World of Police Alternatives (Hour Detroit)
- Vending machines fighting drug overdoses with free Narcan (Spartan News Room)
- Lenawee County starting program aimed at reducing mentally ill people in justice system (Daily Telegram)
- Police officers trained in crisis intervention teams were less likely to use force when responding to mental health crisis, new study finds.
- WSU School of Social Work partners with multiple agencies in crisis response initiative
- Ingham Co. Jail to receive Narcan vending machine (Spartan News Room)
- Vending machines with lifesaving drug grow as opioid crisis rages in US (The Guardian)
- Wayne State University program provides free Narcan in vending machines (WDIV Local 4)
- Jail reforms report shows over 150,000 drivers getting licenses back (Manistee News Advocate)
- Nearly two decades after leaving prison a free man, WSU staffer Terrell Topps now goes back weekly to steer others from incarceration to higher education
- Opioid Crisis: Reducing harm, one vending machine at a time (Traverse City Record Eagle)
- New toolkit section provides guidance for Community Mental Health providers and their role in AOT
- Narcan vending machines are the latest weapon against opioid overdoses (Fox News)
- Wayne County Behavioral Health Pilot Project Helping ‘Familiar Faces’ in the Justice System
- Assisted outpatient treatment toolkit bridges the gap of mental health treatment law and implementation
- Jackson County Jail vending machine stocked to save lives (WILX 10)
- Free Narcan Vending Machines Popping Up Around Michigan (WJR 760)
- Jackson County Office of the Sheriff says its Narcan vending machine helps save lives (Fox 47)
- No snacks or drinks, these vending machines dispense something that saves lives (Detroit Free Press)
- “Was this gonna be a death sentence for me?” Inside the pandemic at the Wayne Co. Jail (Michigan Radio)
- Drug use on decline? (Cadillac News)
- Push to improve conditions for Michigan's incarcerated prompts research, proposals for new facility (Metromode)