News and Announcements
- 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)
- To reduce stigma, Oneonta recovery center uses vending machine to distribute overdose-reversal drug (WSKG)
- After overcoming prison and drug addiction, School of Social Work alum now helps others using mindfulness and meditation
- 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
- Force for Change: Standout School of Social Work student and instructor receives prestigious fellowship in Washington, DC
- 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)
- Social Work Spotlight: Meet Crisis Response Manager Leonard Swanson
- Social Work Spotlight: Meet Information Specialist Jessica Best
- Spotlight on the News: Inside Mental Health Awareness Month (WXYZ Detroit)
- Push to improve conditions for Michigan's incarcerated prompts research, proposals for new facility (Metromode)
- CBHJ launches new research listing, making over one hundred research products more accessible
- Spotlight on the News: Council President Mary Sheffield on Detroit's budget; CBHJ addresses opioids (WXYZ Channel 7)
- CBHJ offering technical assistance to Michigan counties looking to improve opioid use disorder treatment offered inside their jail
- Wayne Co. released hundreds of inmates for COVID. Was public safety compromised? (Detroit News)
- Stepping up: Jail programs tackle mental illness and substance abuse disorder (Traverse City Record Eagle)
- Stepping up: Jail programs tackle mental illness and substance abuse disorder (Corrections1)
- Three services: One provider at GTC jail (Traverse City Record Eagle)
- Changes In Mental, Medical Healthcare Coming To County Jail (the TICKER)
- Social Work celebrates Black History Month - 2022