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    BYP 100 protest marijuana prosecutions in 2014

Category: Health

Posts related to the report’s section Our Students Deserve Better Access to Whole Health Care:

Chicago’s Mental Health Policies are Criminal

Carol Caref June 12, 2015 June 23, 2015Health, Justice
Chicagoans desperate for mental health services are deliberately committing petty crimes and getting arrested because the only place they can get the medication they need is in jail! That is the sad state of affairs for mental health in Chicago,…

Lead Still Poisoning Students

Carol Caref June 8, 2015 June 23, 2015Health, Housing
As A Just Chicago documents, health issues such as lead poisoning contribute to students’ problems in school. Not surprisingly, lead poisoning disproportionately impacts poor students. As the Chicago Tribune reports, Children ages 5 and younger continue to be harmed…

Chicago’s Trauma and Lack of Trauma Centers

Sarah Rothschild May 29, 2015 June 23, 2015Health
The University of Chicago closed the only adult level-one trauma center on the South Side of the city 27 years ago and is finally considering reopening it, after years of protest, and after an Illinois Department of Public Health investigation…

CPS Needs More Full-Time, Union, Certified School Nurses

Sarah Rothschild May 29, 2015 June 15, 2015Health, Schools
CPS Students Deserve Nurses CPS is once again entertaining the idea of expanded outsourcing of nurses.  This is not new, unfortunately – CPS has been working with nurse staffing agencies since the early 1990’s.  The number of Certified School Nurses (CSN), Licensed Practical…

On Anita Alvarez’s New Drug Policy

Nathan Goldbaum April 29, 2015 June 8, 2015Health, Justice
BYP 100 protest marijuana prosecutions in 2014 As the report A Just Chicago notes, as an alternative to incarceration “drug treatment in the community is twice as effective at curtailing drug use, keeps students from having a parent in prison, and, in Illinois, costs 63% less (Kane-Willis,…
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