The community mobile crisis response network was piloted in 2021 following the death of Walter Wallace Jr., who was shot and killed by city police officers in 2020 outside his home in West ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney and Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw announced plans to engage an independent consultant to conduct an examination of the city's response to ...

Digital Brief: Aug. 7, 2023 03:17. PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - The Philadelphia Fire Department created the new AR-3 response unit to serve physical and behavioral health crises.

Philadelphia region’s ‘just recovery’ report card: No honor roll for COVID-19 response The grades issued by 53 leaders who recently completed Generocity's Just Recovery Self-Assessment ranged from ...

Sophia Barrett of Crisis Response K9s and her dog Teddy are helping to comfort the Fairmount community after a deadly fire. "It's like he knows that he's doing a job," said Sophia Barrett.

For a survivor, the lack of awareness and support from the community made the prospect of leaving a violent relationship untenable. In 1976, two Philadelphia hospital social workers decided it was ...

Allison Denman MS, BSN, RN, SANE-A ([email protected]) is the clinical director and nurse manager of the Philadelphia Sexual Assault Response Center.Denman is a board-certified forensic nurse examiner ...

Philadelphia has agreed to pay hundreds of protestors a combined $9.25 million for the city’s police response to racial justice protests in 2020. About 350 plaintiffs who were teargassed, struck with ...

News Philly’s Black Community Has Been Disproportionately Affected By COVID-19. Why Is the City Just Now Doing Something About It?

A National Response Team is being activated to help with the investigation into Wednesday's devastating fire in Philadelphia. A residential fire in a converted apartment building killed 12 people ...