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Q&A With Sandra Heffern on Community Based Health Share this: In 2017, the CDC reported that community level health care was key to improving health outcomes saying, “[it] promotes healthy living, helps prevent chronic diseases and brings the greatest health benefits to the greatest number of people in need.”  Alaska uses a hub-and-spoke model of healthcare at the community level to overcome geographical and demographic diversity. We spoke with Sandra Heffern, Consultant, Alaska H...

May 29, 2020: Police officers shoot rubber bullets in Los Angeles, during a protest over the death of George Floyd. There are 18,000 police agencies across the United States, each with its own culture and particular view on police reform. Many of them are now reexamining long-standing training strategies and shifting emphasis from confrontation to de-escalation. Some do better than others. Facing loud and sustained public protest following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last year, pol...

Security divisions are working more closely than ever in determining whether a given investigation should be handled as a hate crime, an incident of domestic terrorism, or both this will ensure we consider all appropriate criminal offenses and that whenever we encounter domestic terrorism we treat it for what it is. through a directive we issued earlier this year we are ensuring we carefully track investigations and cases with a domestic terrorism nexus and dedicating additional resources to hel...

Vacancy Announcement The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) / Danish Demining Group (DDG) are an international humanitarian organization implementing relief and development activities in more than 30 countries. DRC/DDG is a non-governmental, non-political and non-religious organization and, in DRC/DDG, people’s right to a life with dignity is central to all that we do. DRC/DDG has been operating in Myanmar since 2009, responding to humanitarian needs of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and confl...

The Todd County Sheriff's Office arrested an Elkton woman Friday for DUI and child abuse following an investig...

“My birthday wish is to get a family, a caring family,” she said during an interview in May.

on Accelerating Efforts to Eliminate Child, Early and Forced Marriage in Asia-Pacific. I. Introduction Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organization that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We work alongside children, young people, our supporters and partners to tackle the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children. We support children’s rights from birth until adulthood and enable children and young people to prepa...

Delaware must fully fund services for the developmentally disabled | Opinion Krista Griffith and Kevin Hensley © Jason Minto, The News Journal Teesie Bonk, sister of the late Michael McNesby, speaks at the Ability Network of Delaware rally outside Legislative Hall in Dover to support a bill that would increase the reimbursement from the state to groups that provide services to people with disabilities. “Getting ahead is not a possibility when you have to work two jobs just ...

6 Jun 2021 “Outraged by the injustice faced by people with disabilities and vulnerable populations, we aspire to a world of solidarity and inclusion, enriched by our differences, where everyone can live in dignity” Humanity & Inclusion (HI) is an independent and impartial aid and development organisation with no religious or political affiliations operating in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. We work alongside people with disabilities and vulnerable people to help...

A new analysis from UNM is revealing some startling inequalities in the way New Mexico is communicating critical COVID-19 information to non-English speakers, specifically residents who speak Spanish.