Boston Medical Center ends policy allowing migrant families to shelter overnight

Community and health workers gather on Boston Common by the Massachusetts State House demanding that state and federal agencies provide greater support to migrants and asylum seekers.  (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Boston Medical Center is ending a policy that has allowed dozens of homeless families, mostly newly arrived migrants, to stay overnight in the hospital on many nights over the past year. The hospital now prevents families from seeking refuge there unless they need medical treatment. Instead, the hospital reroutes them to other facilities after a … Read more

Hansen Foundation, High Plains Mental Health Center partner for fellowship program

Hansen Foundation, High Plains Mental Health Center partner for fellowship program

HPMHC extension He saw the needs and wanted to better serve his community. But without financial assistance, Meriah Escarcega said she would not have been able to go back to school or pursue her career as an outpatient therapist. Thanks to a grant from the Dane G. Hansen Foundation, Logan, Kan., Meriah and three other … Read more

How Scottsdale’s Cornerstone Healing Center Helps People Stay Sober

Cornerstone Healing Center founder Estil Wallace (left) and Chief Operations Officer Marcus Clark (right) created the Scottsdale drug rehabilitation center program based on what worked to get them sober.  Here, they pose with Sead Hasic (center), director of clinical operations at Cornerstone.

Getting sober during treatment is one thing. Living sober in the world is another. This is the reality Cornerstone Healing Center chief operations officer Marcus Clark was well aware of when he helped his friend and sponsor Estil Wallace open the Scottsdale drug rehabilitation center in 2017. After years of abusing everything, Clark got sober … Read more