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Children's Institute Inc. ( CII) is a nonprofit organization that provides services to children and families healing from the effects of family and community violence within Los Angeles. [1] Founded in 1906 by Minnie Barton, [2] Los Angeles's first female probation officer, [3] the organization (then named the Big Sister League) was first ...
As of the end of fiscal year 2010, the center had an annual budget expenditure of US$68,111,000. [4] As of the end of fiscal year 2008, the center had 1,119 employees, 587 residents and an annual cost per resident of $175,844. [5] The Shapiro Center was generating and submitting to the state treasury, 65% of its total operational costs.
The McMartin preschool trial was a day care sexual abuse case in the 1980s, prosecuted by the Los Angeles District Attorney, Ira Reiner. [1] Members of the McMartin family, who operated a preschool in Manhattan Beach, California, were charged with hundreds of acts of sexual abuse of children in their care. Accusations were made in 1983, with ...
In Los Angeles County, the number of overdose deaths tied to fentanyl skyrocketed between 2016 and 2022, soaring from 109 to 1,910, according to a county report.
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Fields. Psychology. Suicidology. Norman Louis Farberow (February 12, 1918 – September 10, 2015) was an American psychologist, and one of the founding fathers of modern suicidology. [1] He was among the three founders in 1958 of the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center, which became a base of research into the causes and prevention of suicide.
Communities That Care. Communities That Care (CTC) [1] is a program of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) in the office of the United States Government's Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). CTC is a coalition-based prevention operating system that uses a public health approach to prevent youth ...
State schools are a type of institution for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the United States. These institutions are run by individual states. These state schools were and are famous for abuse and neglect. In many states, the residents were involuntary sterilized during the eugenics era.