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Why We Need Better Dialogue on Homeless Shelter Population Impacts

5/22/2017

By now you’ve likely heard about the unexpected announcement that single men will be housed at the homeless resource center abutting the Jordan River Trail. Last week, more than fifty elected officials in Salt Lake County called for public dialogue about the homeless populations through a joint letter. Below is the letter in its entirety:

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Utah leading out on three-digit crisis line

5/9/2017

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The public discussion around Utah’s suicide epidemic is yielding results. I joined KSL’s Doug Wright twice over the past week, to discuss the alarming rate of suicide among teens in Utah. (You can listen here).
I’ve written before about the need for a three digit crisis line, and was grateful to work with Rep. Steve Eliason and Sen. Daniel Thatcher as they ran legislation to start that process in Utah. I was also thrilled last week to see Sen. Orrin Hatch and Rep. Chris Stewart introduce legislation in Congress to do the same thing at the national level.

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aimee winder newton: County Council district 3

Why We Need Better Dialogue on Homeless Shelter Population Impacts

Utah leading out on three-digit crisis line

Aimee Winder Newton

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