Engardio. And a Founding Member with me it is fitting we are closing it together as well. Well be joined by supervisor safai shortly. Here he is. Make his grand late entrance. Todays meeting is extremely special we are joind and i think it might be according to commissioner plumber the second time board of supervisors have official low joined in a joint meeting with Youth Commission. I feel very xoit exclude honored to be at the second historic garthing. And i want to welcome this joint session with the Youth Commissions Civic Engagement committee and would like to introduce the 5 members all of whom are present today. We have the committee cochairs. Marine loftus and steven hum. The cochair. Approximate we have members Vanessa Pimentel, utting and e wan plumber. I would like to welcome board of education president. Kevin bog us. We were going to seat you feel fro to stay there if you want to stay there. Okay. And bullly sit in the box so you have microphones and whenever you would lik
Alachua County, the City of Gainesville and Santa Fe College pledged in February to work together as part of the Community Gun Violence Prevention program. Now they are looking for area organizations to join them.
democrats think pushing any gun measures in the senate will affect his election chances. that s an important part of the political discussion. jennifer, republicans, of course, set to take control of the house. so what options does the president have with congress divided to push more gun violence reform? well, even with the slight majority in the senate, we all know that s not enough to overcome a filibuster. president biden has allocated unprecedented amount of federal funding to community gun violence prevention. and community leaders actually wanted to do more. they want to see him establish an office of gun violence prevention in the white house that shows that it s a priority. but, other than that, there is not much he can do. i see now he s focusing on assault weapons. but most shootings are perpetrated with handguns. and implementing the kind of background checks that have kept gun violence at bay in so many other countries isn t really part of the political equation right
State focuses on mental health, gun violence crises made worse by COVID
Julia Bergman
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As life returns to normal in Connecticut, the first state in the nation to fully vaccinate 50 percent of its adult population against COVID-19, the pandemic’s mental health toll wages on.
Low infection rates, declining hospitalizations and deaths in the single-digits are all signs the state is “making real progress when it comes to our physical health,” Gov. Ned Lamont said Monday, but he added, “we still do have some healing to do and a lot of that is related to mental health.”
A spike in mental health related calls to United Way’s 211 call center is evidence of that, the governor said. Community health centers including East Hartford-based InterCommunity Health Care, are seeing an increase in “psychiatric calls for mental health issues and substance abuse issues,” CEO Kim Beauregard said, joining Lamont at his virtual coronavirus briefing Monday.