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More than 4 million people have called the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline since it launched last July. But a new poll from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) found that 82 percent of Americans remain unaware of the 911 alternative for mental health crises.
The Hill hosted a discussion with lawmakers, mental health experts and advocates Thursday about increasing awareness and capacity of the hotline.
“One point that often gets lost is that there has not been appropriations for an awareness campaign, so we can’t be surprised that awareness is low when we haven’t really invested in that wide-scale research and promotion,” Wesolowski said.
Wesolowski compared the potential campaign to smoking cessation campaigns, which required around $50 million to $100 million to “save lives” — though she said anything would have an impact.
The Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into OpenAI, the artificial intelligence start-up that makes ChatGPT, over whether the chatbot has harmed consumers through its collection of data and its publication of false information on individuals.
In a 20-page letter sent to the San Francisco company this week, the agency said it was also looking into OpenAI’s security practices. The F.T.C. asked OpenAI dozens of questions in its letter, including how the start-up trains its A.I. models and treats personal data, and said the company should provide the agency with documents and details.
The F.T.C. is examining whether OpenAI “engaged in unfair or deceptive privacy or data security practices or engaged in unfair or deceptive practices relating to risks of harm to consumers,” the letter said.
The investigation was reported earlier by The Washington Post and confirmed by a person familiar with the investigation.
Minimum age raised to 18 in state that allowed 16- and 17-year-olds to wed with written permission from parent or guardian.
The governor of Michigan signed legislation Tuesday that aims to eventually end child marriage in that state, raising the minimum age at which one can get married to 18 years old under all circumstances. The state previously allowed 16- and 17-year-olds to wed with written permission from a parent or legal guardian. Minors under 16 were able to get married with judicial approval. But several laws signed by Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer effectively stop the practice, the Detroit Free Press reports.
Maine joins Sweden, France, Norway, Canada, and other jurisdictions around the world that decriminalize people in prostitution while holding sex buyers and exploiters accountable
July 11, 2023 – Maine made history today as the first state in the country to enact a law known as the Equality Model, also called the Nordic or Abolitionist Model. Gov. Janet Mills signed An Act to Reduce Commercial Sexual Exploitation and An Act to Provide Remedies for Survivors of Commercial Sexual Exploitation, which jointly create tools to support sex trade survivors and hold their perpetrators accountable.
Together the Acts solely decriminalize and end the arrests of people bought and sold in the system of prostitution, eliminating the crime of engaging in prostitution. The law will offer survivors the services they need, while maintaining penalties against patronizers (sex buyers) and other exploiters for the grievous harm and violence they cause. The law also seals records of prostitution convictions so survivors can rebuild their lives without fear of discrimination in housing, employment, and in other sectors that are key to enjoying fundamental human rights.
The passage of these Acts makes Maine the first in the nation to enact an Equality Model framework, which no longer tolerates sexual harassment, sexual violence, and other crimes just because patronizers pay to commit these offenses. Sweden was the first country to pass an Equality Model law in 1999, targeting sex buyers (99.9% of whom are men) who almost single-handedly fuel the global multi-billion-dollar sex trade.
“It’s a momentous day when our elected officials finally recognize that no one should be criminalized for being in situations of sexual exploitation and sex trafficking, and that who the state should target are perpetrators,” said Tricia Grant, executive director of the Maine-based survivor-led organization Just Love Worldwide. “I am proud that Maine is the first state in the country to listen to survivors and understand that what we endured was not ‘work,’ but pervasive injuries and violence that destroy individuals’ lives and communities.”
This groundbreaking law is the culmination of years of the tireless dedication and courage of sex trade survivors in Maine, like Ms. Grant, and the Acts’ sponsor Rep. Lois Galgay Reckitt (D-South Portland). The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) congratulates them as well as our partners, Rights4Girls, World Without Exploitation, and the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, for joining these grassroots efforts in Maine to make this law a reality.
“The Acts codify universal principles of human rights and are in sync with international law and U.S. federal policy that acknowledge that the buying and selling of human beings, including for sexual acts, must only exist in history books,” says Taina Bien-Aimé, executive director of CATW. “Today’s victory in Maine gives us deep hope that equality for women and girls, especially of color, can one day become reality.”
Maine joins Sweden, Iceland, Norway, Canada, Northern Ireland, France, the Republic of Ireland, and Israel as countries committed to ending the system of prostitution and to targeting the demand for it as a tool to prevent sex trafficking and to change cultural norms that dehumanize marginalized individuals, overwhelmingly women and girls.
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The Warriors was alerted to this travesty from Lisa Honold, Founder and Director of the Center for Online Safety.
“I’m not making this up. CADCA has awarded Snapchat “Humanitarian of the Year”. Snapchat! The social media platform kids love and law enforcement hates for its disappearing messages and rampant drug dealers.
CADCA is the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America and it says its mission is to create safe, healthy and drug-free communities globally. Yet it’s honoring a company that harms kids’ mental and physical health by offering them access to illegal substances, counterfeit prescription drugs, pornography and sextortion. This award to Snapchat doesn’t make any sense.
How could CADCA do this?
My friend Amy Neville lost her 14 year old son Alexander to a drug dealer allowed to sell on Snapchat. Alexander took a counterfeit pill laced with fentanyl and he died. She’s started a petition to revoke this award to Snapchat and you can help by signing it here.
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