The Evidence-Based Professionals' Newsletter - October 2016

Welcome to your October 2016 issue of The Evidence-Based Professionals' Monthly. 

Point: With 13 weeks to year-end some have said, "...well this year's pretty much shot".  To that we say, "Nope.  Buckle down and let's make this our best 3 months yet".  Wishing you utmost success.

Articles & Updates

Evidence-Based Human & Justice Services:

• Evidence-based health care using proven interventions
• Studies Discredit State Policies That Punish Poor People for Saving Money
• Boulder County, Colo.: Blueprint for Merging Health and Housing Under One Roof
• Army: 73 soldiers may have been improperly sent home with TBI, PTSD
• When police deal with people who have mental health issues
• California to track all police use of force with online tool
• Electronic monitoring of offenders rose 140% in 10 years
• The impact of incarceration on children and spouses of inmates
• Economic toll of incarceration tops $1 trillion dollars
• Prosecutors, criminal justice policy, and justice

Juvenile Justice:

• National campaign calls for removing law enforcement officers from schools
• House passes re-authorization of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act
• Collateral consequences of youth entering the adult criminal justice system

Substance Use & Other Disorders:

• Internet addiction could signal other problems
• Study examines insurance barriers to addiction medication
• FDA examining apps to combat opioid overdoses
• Seattle plans to open nation’s first heroin injection clinics
• Study finds one-third of American adults used prescription pain-killers in past year
• Research shows teens with bi-polar disorder are at greater risk for substance abuse 
• Study finds lack of sleep associated with drug and alcohol use among male teens

Workforce & Career:

• Video: Entrepreneurship a road to re-entry for some ex-offenders
• Michigan inmates get job training in 'vocational village'

Grants & Funding:

• Federal agencies award nearly $60 million dollars for reentry funding
• US Departments of Labor and Justice Award $59.4M in Grants to Improve Reentry Outcomes for Currently, Formerly Incarcerated Individuals
• $2.8M grant will allow mental health treatment at home for Baltimore patients
• Chicago Gets $1 Million Federal Grant To Expand Police Mental Health Training

Webinars & Podcasts:

• Three Questions With Darren Walker, Ford Foundation President
• Army: 73 soldiers may have been improperly sent home with TBI, PTSD

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