by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Dec 12, 2023
Columbus OH is considering a plan under which homeless men who are regularly intoxicated could no longer be housed in a large downtown shelter.
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Dec 12, 2023
A bill in the California legislature that would get homeless people with serious mental illness off the streets and into treatment only needs the signature of Gov. Gray Davis. The bill would expand existing services in order to determine whether they keep people with...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Dec 12, 2023
The Street Case Management Project in Minneapolis recently won the Thomas M. Wernert Award for Innovation in Community Behavioral Healthcare from the Boston-based Technical Assistance Collaborative Inc. This effort is a client-focused project for homeless people with...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Dec 12, 2023
Some British television viewers evidently take their soap operas too close to heart. After Angie, a character on a BBC soap called Eastenders,' deliberately took an overdose of pills (apparently to gain her husband's attention), self-poisoning cases at...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Dec 12, 2023
When the space shuttle Challenger swooped down to a perfect landing in mid-October, it should have been a joyous occasion in Clear Lake City, Tex., home to the astronauts and the Johnson Space Center. Instead, the community of 37,000 was in shock-mourning the deaths...