On Nez Perce Reservation, Lapwai Addresses Mental Health By Understanding Kids’ Culture

By NWPB News
Lapwai School district students dressed in traditional clothing of the Nez Perce Tribe
The 500-student Lapwai School District takes an all-bases-covered approach to student well-being, including leveraging partnerships with the Nez Perce tribe and local community to address youth mental health. The small North Idaho district is among only nine rural districts in the state to provide four key behavioral health supports for all of its students, according to an Read More

Crisis Clinicians Ride Along With Washington Deputies In Latest Example Of Policing Reimagined

By Tom Banse
Compass Health program manager Marla Johns, center, and Skagit County Detective Anne Weed, right, collaborated to embed mental health clinicians with deputies responding to relevant 911 calls.
Skagit County Sheriff's Office Detective Anne Weed broached the idea for a partnership months before the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police ignited the national debate about reform. Weed said two existing mental health clinicians from Compass Health are now being "embedded" with regular patrol deputies. They get assigned the 911 calls involving people acting out Read More
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