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A Look Back at State and Community News in 2020

January 08, 2021

News Type:  Weekly Spark, Weekly Spark News

UTAH: Utah Becomes Latest State to Ban Discredited LGBTQ “Conversion Therapy”—NPR

WASHINGTON: Mental Health Experts Race to Help Children Cope with Stay-at-Home Life amid Coronavirus Closures—The Seattle Times

PENNSYLVANIA: These Philly Programs Are Connecting Restaurant Workers to Mental Health Resources—Eater Philly

CALIFORNIA: Removing Cops from Behavioral Crisis Calls: “We Need to Change the Model”—NPR

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The Suicide Prevention Resource Center at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center is supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), under Grant No. 1H79SM083028-03

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