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Anyone’s Son

Anyone’s Son

by External Article | Dec 1, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Child, Generation X | 0 comments

Cody was having a bad day. He felt suicidal. He got drunk. He brought a gun with him — not uncommon, since many people carry in Alaska. He decided to go for a walk to clear his head. And when Jean called 911, hoping the police could calm him down and bring him home,...
Why autism training for police isn’t enough

Why autism training for police isn’t enough

by External Article | Nov 26, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Child, Long Term Caregiving | 0 comments

As a police officer and parent, Thompson knows all too well how badly interactions between autistic people and law enforcement can go. From beatings and violent arrests to deadly shootings, police use of force against autistic people is not uncommon. As violent...
What to do about Ahav?

What to do about Ahav?

by External Article | Oct 24, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Child, Generation X | 0 comments

How would she get help for a boy who is Black and mentally ill and already vulnerable to some of the worst disparities in the U.S. health-care system even before the pandemic made things worse? Who fixes a boy when his family is on government assistance and the...
How a ‘mental hygiene arrest’ turned deadly

How a ‘mental hygiene arrest’ turned deadly

by External Article | Sep 2, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caregiver Stories | 0 comments

Joe Prude called the police for help. His brother was acting strangely and had suddenly bolted out the back door. But when Rochester police found Daniel Prude soon after, naked and walking in the street, they handcuffed him, mocked him, put a mesh bag over his head,...
She called 911 for a medical emergency. They treated her boyfriend like a criminal.

She called 911 for a medical emergency. They treated her boyfriend like a criminal.

by External Article | Aug 4, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Romantic Partner | 0 comments

A woman calls 911 to get help when her boyfriend has a diabetic seizure. The paramedics who arrived injected him with ketamine — known as a date rape drug — typically used by EMTs assisting police in arresting violently agitated suspects. For the second...
Police Violence Against Black Disabled People Can’t Be Ignored Anymore

Police Violence Against Black Disabled People Can’t Be Ignored Anymore

by External Article | Jul 23, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caregiver Stories | 0 comments

Deborah Danner was a 66-year-old Black woman with schizophrenia. In 2016, an NYPD officer shot her in her Bronx apartment while responding to her neighbor’s call that she had been behaving erratically. She did not survive. Chillingly, Danner wrote an essay four years...
Police Are the First to Respond to Mental Health Crises. They Shouldn’t Be

Police Are the First to Respond to Mental Health Crises. They Shouldn’t Be

by External Article | Jun 23, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caregiver Stories | 0 comments

Last year, the mental health nonprofit Treatment Advocacy Center found that one in three people taken to hospital emergency rooms in psychiatric crises are brought there by the police. Law enforcement drove 5,424,212 miles transporting people with serious mental...
Police killings: the price of being disabled and black in America

Police killings: the price of being disabled and black in America

by External Article | Jun 22, 2017 | Care Work Library, Caregiver News, Caring for a Friend, Finding Caregiver Support, For Friends & Family | 0 comments

On Sunday morning, Charleena Lyles called the Seattle police to report a burglary. She was a black woman, pregnant, the mother of four children (including a child with Down’s syndrome), living in housing for formerly homeless individuals. The police showed up, found...

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