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Founded as Dade County Junior College in 1960, MDC began on a high school farm and became desegregated in 1962, opening its doors to students of all races. [12] Over the decades, MDC expanded by launching several campuses, including Kendall, Wolfson, and Hialeah, and established a Medical Center to support students in health programs.
The School for Advanced Studies (SAS) is a dual-enrollment secondary school in Miami, Florida.It is a part of the Miami-Dade County Public Schools System and is located at five campuses of Miami Dade College: Homestead campus, Kendall campus, North campus, West campus, and Wolfson campus.
A new treatment center near Wynwood could be key to solving Miami-Dade County’s mental health crisis. We spend millions jailing people with mental illness. How that’s changing in Miami-Dade
But with progress on mental-health treatment, safety protocols and other improvements, the court-appointed monitor said in August that Miami-Dade is for the first time meeting all the terms of the ...
In a 7-0 vote, the Miami-Dade School Board said it will review how students are taught about social emotional learning. Mental health curriculum is the latest target in Miami-Dade schools Skip to ...
The Baker Act, officially known as the Florida Mental Health Act of 1971, is a law in the U.S. state of Florida that allows certain professionals—such as doctors, mental health practitioners, judges, and law enforcement officers—to detain and involuntarily commit individuals to a mental health facility for up to 72 hours.
Twenty-three years later, in 2008, conditions in Miami-Dade County jails were still so dismal for people with mental illness, the federal Department of Justice launched a three-year investigation.
An essential component of mental health court programs for protection of the public is a dynamic risk management process that involves court supervised case management with interactive court review and assessment. As in other problem-solving courts, the judge in a mental health court plays a larger role than a judge in a conventional court ...