#No, social workers don’t do better than cops at mental-health response

#No, social workers don’t do better than cops at mental-health response

“#No, social workers don’t do better than cops at mental-health response” Last month, New York City joined dozens of other cities experimenting with “alternatives” to policing by launching the Behavioral Health Emergency Assistance Response Division, or B-HEARD, in a pilot study in parts of Harlem. The program dispatches social workers and paramedics to certain mental-health-related…

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#A winning GOP message for 2022 & beyond

#A winning GOP message for 2022 & beyond

“#A winning GOP message for 2022 & beyond” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest confused pronouncement about masks is another blow to the embattled agency, whose track record hasn’t been exactly brilliant. For months, the CDC has married a god-awful communications strategy with a determination to cater to the most irrational whims of…

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#Bronx mom charged with stashing coke in diaper bag

#Bronx mom charged with stashing coke in diaper bag

“#Bronx mom charged with stashing coke in diaper bag” A Bronx mother is charged with hiding 1 1/2 pounds of cocaine in her baby’s diaper bag after getting pulled over by state troopers while both her young kids were in the car. Shante Pleasant, 33, was pulled over in upstate Coxsackie on a traffic stop…

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#Aid group vaccinates migrants as France expands virus pass

#Aid group vaccinates migrants as France expands virus pass

“#Aid group vaccinates migrants as France expands virus pass” PARIS — Vaccination rates are picking up again in France as the government requires a virus pass for more and more activities — but social workers worry that the measure will further marginalize migrants and other poor populations. So aid group Doctors Without Borders has set…

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