KOSU From the panhandle to its eastern border, the opioid crisis has reached every corner of Oklahoma. Visit any of the state's 77 counties, any school district, tribe or community, and you will meet people who have lost a loved one or seen them struggle. The post Oklahoma pulls back curtain on opioid settlement money, but victims’ families still have questions appeared first on Rosalynn Carter Fellowships.| Rosalynn Carter Fellowships
From Public Health Watch and Texas Community Health News About a year after Blanco County launched its community health paramedicine program in 2022, paramedic Wesley Patton was referred to a patient in the local jail. The man had been arrested on terroristic threat charges tied to his substance use.| Rosalynn Carter Fellowships
Invisible Institute, South Side Weekly, and Mindsite News On a gloomy Sunday afternoon in Chicago, Sgt. Andrew Dakuras hopped out of his patrol car in front of a downtown highrise and strolled into the elevator, finishing a text as the doors closed. He rode up to the 31st floor, exited and stopped at the third door on the left. He knocked: tap, tap, tap, tap, tap.| Rosalynn Carter Fellowships
From Inside Appalachia and West Virginia Public Broadcasting In Huntington, West Virginia, Cabell County’s quick response team, or QRT, meets in the upper floor of an Emergency Medical Services building five days a week. Huntington is a small city of 45,000 people on the western edge of West Virginia.| Rosalynn Carter Fellowships
From SFPublicPress When Chuan Teng looks at San Francisco’s approach to behavioral health care, she sees a fundamental flaw.| Rosalynn Carter Fellowships
From Missoulian/Independent Record Conner Reisinger realized he was different from his classmates in the fifth grade. He was always around other kids, but felt like an outcast and couldn’t put his finger on why.| Rosalynn Carter Fellowships