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  • Schools Look To Algorithms To Flag Students Who May Harm Themselves

    Alisa Roth

    March 03, 2021 |

    NPR |

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    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Mason City, Iowa

    Companies like Gaggle are typically used by school districts to track student online behavior, but now they are tracking something else—self-harm. Machine learning flags words that might indicate a student is thinking of hurting themselves. “It gives us insight into what the student's thinking.” Gaggle identified 64,000 student references to suicide and self-harm. The company claims to have saved 927 student lives. In Mason City, districts receive alerts when a student’s search is flagged. “Nicole Pfirman says there have been a few times where she believes an alert saved a kid's life.”

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  • 'FACT' teams aim to keep people with mental illness out of jail

    Alisa Roth

    September 18, 2019 |

    MPR News |

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    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    A Forensic Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) team tackles one of the toughest challenges at the intersection of mental health and criminal justice: how to help people whose mental illness has landed them in criminal trouble, without resorting to jail or brief hospitalizations. A Rochester, New York, program that showed promise in improving those odds by connecting people with needed services is now being replicated in Hennepin County, Minnesota. So far, about half of the 60 people in the program returned to jail. So it's only working for some people.

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  • Keeping mental health patients stable and out of jail

    Alisa Roth

    June 02, 2015 |

    Marketplace |

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    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Rochester, New York

    Like the Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) teams that help seriously mentally ill people avoid costly long-term hospital stays, Forensic Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) teams try to help the same population avoid jail also. By providing intensive case management to avoid the pitfalls that lead to criminal charges, and connecting people living in the community with needed services, these teams have shown early indications that their patients spend less time in both jails and hospitals. They are more expensive than outpatient clinics, but in the long run may be cheaper than hospitals and jails.

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  • Bailing Out Those Who Can't Make Bail

    Alisa Roth

    May 16, 2014 |

    WNYC |

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    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Thousands of New Yorkers are stuck behind bars for weeks, even months, because they can’t make bail. A non-profit fund that posts bail for clients has been changing that in the Bronx.

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