Adapting a Zero Suicide Approach to Native Communities

by Jordan Anderson | May 24, 2022 | Health, Urban Indian Healthcare

May 2, 2022 – Edwina Valdo found herself on the receiving end of a desperate phone call last year on the suicide crisis line at Acoma Pueblo Behavioral Health Services in New Mexico. Valdo, whose regular job is as a grant manager, was filling in because the pandemic...

In U.S., reckoning over church-run indigenous boarding schools begins

by Jordan Anderson | Mar 16, 2022 | Featured, Social Justice

WASHINGTON — As a child, Cathy Chavers, a member of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa, never knew her family suffered in U.S. boarding schools. She only learned after her grandmother’s death that she was sent to Minnesota’s Vermilion Lake Indian...

Report critical of Pinellas Sheriff Bob Gualtieri for campaign donations

by Jordan Anderson | Feb 10, 2022 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON — A new watchdog report has uncovered potential conflicts of interest in dozens of sheriffs’ offices nationwide, including Pinellas County. The research shows Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri has received campaign donations from a group connected to...

Trone takes up constituent questions on masking, test availability at COVID town hall

by Jordan Anderson | Jan 18, 2022 | Featured, Politics, Science + Technology

Frederick, Montgomery and Washington county residents Thursday evening questioned Rep. David Trone (D-Dist. 6) about how the area’s health care systems are handling the recent spike of COVID-19 cases caused by the omicron variant, the availability of higher-protection...