By Prisha Patel  Opioid abuse cases and deaths have surged across Alameda County in the past few years. This crisis is not only a distant problem reported in the media, but a life-threatening reality ...

As the global community commemorates World Sickle Cell Day today, the spotlight turns to Nigeria-a nation bearing one of the heaviest burdens of Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) worldwide.With over 150,000 ...

In the bustling communities of Southern California, a silent health crisis is unfolding. Behind the vibrant facade of diverse ...

Such a blurring of conventional and subconventional responses could well redefine future crisis response templates ... project its dominance across both physical and perceptual theaters.

Twenty law enforcement officers recently completed Crisis Intervention Team (CIT ... care of themselves for their own overall mental and physical well-being.” Since the first class in 2013 ...

KOCHI: Aiming to provide round-the-clock protection to transgender people in the state, the social justice department has set up a Transgender Crisis Intervention Centre in Kakkanad. First-of-its ...

The district recently switched to a new crisis prevention training program ... The efforts appear to be working: Hamden's physical intervention numbers are on pace to decrease this school year ...

Hosted by the Family Crisis Intervention Center ... She described years of sexual assault and physical violence inflicted upon her by her father and even though justice found him, she is still ...

Menon acknowledges CIT procedures will not eliminate the need for law enforcement to respond nor to use their training to bring a physical ... have had a two-day crisis intervention training ...

Police departments across Hamilton County using crisis intervention training to save lives Police departments across Hamilton County using crisis intervention training to save lives Police ...

The aim of Cornell University's Therapeutic Crisis Intervention system is to reduce or eliminate the need for physical intervention and to provide care workers with the skills and knowledge to become ...

They found the opposite was also true: Persons in crisis were less likely to calm down or cooperate when police used control techniques whether physical ... beginning of the intervention could ...