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  • Chipping away at mental health crisis

    Keegan Kyle

    March 17, 2016 |

    The Post Crescent |

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    Response Location: United States, Madison, Wisconsin

    The state of Wisconsin has a teen suicide rate three-times greater than the national average. Lawmakers have scrambled to address and provide greater access to mental health services in the state by offering temporary housing shelters, treatment programs, and new police training. The initiative is expanding to three cities and health officials see progress because of a decrease in hospitalizations.

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  • Where men learn the cost of buying sex

    Keegan Kyle

    March 10, 2013 |

    Orange County Register |

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    Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

    Various courts in California are lowering repeat offenses among men who are charged with prostitution by educating them about the negative effects of prostitution.

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  • Santa Ana's 10-year war on prostitution

    Keegan Kyle

    January 22, 2013 |

    Orange County Register |

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    Response Location: United States, Santa Ana, California

    In Anaheim, the police department shifted the way they approach prostitution. Rather than arresting women, they began to target pimps, and send women to social services.”In 2010, Anaheim reported 76 prostitution-related arrests, the fewest of any year in the previous three decades.” Other police department’s have adopted “john schools.” Men who solicit prostitution have their charges dropped in exchange they must go to diversion classes. “A 2008 study found San Francisco’s program had reduced the rate of repeat offenses by 40 percent.”

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