Marvin Diamond (Otoe-Missouria) Substance Abuse Counseling/Native American Identity
Marvin Diamond (Otoe-Missouria) Substance Abuse Counseling/Native American Identity – Otoe-Missouria elder Marvin Diamond discusses lessons he learned about substance abuse by working as an addiction counselor for more than 20 years in Indian …
Cookson Hills Christian Ministry gives troubled kids a new home, fresh start
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Many have parents in prison or addicted to drugs or alcohol, said Rick Bayless, executive director of the ministry. Some have parents who have died. "We call them families that come from hard places," he said. "Most of them are functionally fatherless.
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Gabriel Fernandez's Death Shows That Social Workers Appeared To Miss …
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There were six investigations into abuse allegations involving the mother, with five determining the claims were unfounded. Records show there was an unresolved case of alleged abuse at the time of Gabriel's death, and an allegation had lingered two …
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Book confronts racism, prison issues, but language obscures the message
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Citing James Baldwin's warning that “history is literally present in all that we do,” Mikulich weaves a history of African-Americans from slavery through Jim Crow and lynching to the war on drugs and the concomitant growth industry of convict labor and …
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