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Multiple Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Annette Banks s chance encounter with a webinar introduced her to Freedom House Ambulance Service, which was the first emergency medical service in the nation to staff
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. WQED-TV producer Annette Banks kept running into the same reaction as she researched the station’s latest half-hour documentary production: “How have I never heard of this?” Sure, there have been newspaper accounts and an NPR
LORINC: A first-responder service for mental health crises
This column was originally published in Spacing
‘s fall, 2020, edition. City council’s executive committee yesterday voted to recommend a $1.7 million pilot project to test a “community crisis response service” as an alternative to sending police to emotional distress calls to 911.
One way to think about the structural shortcomings of a contemporary police service is to imagine a hospital staffed entirely by ophthalmologists.
Some people entering that hospital will need nursing care, while others may have to deal with the purchasing department. Individuals using one out-patient clinic are seeking treatment for kidney disease, and, while they’re visiting, may want to buy a snack in the food court. Yet every employee in that hospital will have been trained to specialize in cataracts, retinal detachments, and other ocular conditions.