Center Offers Hope to Addicted Women

Center offers hope to addicted women
A short message scrawled in black marker adorned a whiteboard inside the Women's Treatment Center last week. "Don't Count The Days," it read. "Make The Days Count." Days mattered for Jennifer Sykes, a 36-year-old clinic graduate who relied on the Near … Read more on Chicago Tribune

Jail program counting on cognitive therapy, assessments to help return …
… to address head-on the problem that keeps its cells full: criminal thinking. As part of a program aimed at keeping criminals from repeating crimes, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office's re-entry program has begun therapy groups designed to change … Read more on Lawrence Journal World

BART Plazas, Homelessness: Thinking Longer-Term
The BART outreach study at the 16th Street plazas found that loitering, sleeping, selling drugs, using alcohol/drugs, solicitation and using the plazas as toilets accounted for almost a third of the activity during non-commute hours. To reduce this … Read more on Mission Local