Police Initiative Offers Those With Addiction Chance To Seek Help Without Reprisal
The Anaheim program, which lets people turn to the police for help with an addiction, is modeled after a successful initiative in Massachusetts.
Orange County Register:
11 Addicts Have Asked New Anaheim Police Program For Help Getting Treatment
The city’s Drug Free Anaheim initiative offers addicts an alternative to criminal prosecution and a path to sobriety. As long as a person is not under the influence at the moment or wanted for a crime, they can walk into an Anaheim Police Department station or contact a police officer for help without worrying about facing punishment. (Pimentel, 4/21)
In other news from across the state —
KPCC:
LA Co. Officials Headed To DC To Push For Immigrant Rights, Help With Homelessness
Members of L.A. County's Board of Supervisors are headed to Washington D.C. Monday to advocate for health care, immigrant rights and social services, among other priorities. The supervisors' annual trip to the nation's capital comes as officials in the largest county in the nation are looking to aid opposition to some of President Donald Trump's key policy points. (Palta, 4/24)
The Press Democrat:
Hospice’s ‘Service Of Remembrance’ Helps Families Grieve
Even though Adelina Felciano’s husband died about a year ago, she remembers how crucial her Hospice by the Bay team was during the difficult process. That’s why Sunday the Santa Rosa woman was at Trinity Episcopal Church in Sonoma to grieve and remember her husband, Gordon Davis, who died from a brain tumor at age 55. She was joined by more than 50 others — all of whom shared the experience of hospice — at Hospice by the Bay’s annual Service of Remembrance. (Swindell, 4/23)
The Mercury News:
Silicon Valley Teens: Sex, Violence Down; Boredom In School Up
Fewer high school students are drinking, having sex, doing drugs and resorting to violence, a large-scale survey of Santa Clara County public school students shows. At the same time, engagement in school has plunged, as has students’ optimism about their future. (Noguchi, 4/24)