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As soon as the 25th Melbourne Queer Film Festival (MQFF) covered up finally thirty days it had been a momentous event for just one worldwide’s longest-serving and largest activities of LGBTIQ voices regarding the giant screen. Achieving the quarter millennium level is remarkable enough for a community-driven occasion that obtains no significant funding from either […]
A new report finds Connecticut's recently released prison population is facing reentry challenges. The State of Reentry report found resources and services are lacking for formerly incarcerated people. Between 2022 and 2023, 14% of the population said they would be homeless upon release. ...
After a five-year court battle, New Jersey's medical aid-in-dying law has been affirmed by the state's Supreme Court, which rejected an attempt to overturn the statute. Signed by the governor in 2019, the law was soon challenged by a physician based on religious, personal and constitutional grounds. It allows mentally capable, terminally ill adults with six months or less to live to get a prescription they can use to end their lives. ...
By Anya Petrone Slepyan for The Daily Yonder.Broadcast version by Roz Brown for New Mexico News Connection for the Public News Service/Daily Yonder Collaboration When Vivian Montano was in jail, her favorite day of the week was Tuesday. That was the day she, along with a small group of other women, would be transported nearly 90 miles to the Olive Tree Creative Arts and Community Center for a day of behavioral health programming. The Olive Tree “kept me going,” Montano said. ...
New Mexico's RISE, or Reach Intervene Support Engage program, serves 10 rural counties, allowing each to custom design services they provide.