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Health
Ochsner, Lourdes seek community input on Acadiana’s health challenges
The hospital systems, with the assistance of United Way of Acadiana, are conducting a community survey to assess health needs.
Help us investigate the youth mental health crisis
We want to hear from you to better understand how this issue is playing out in Lafayette among patients, parents and providers.
Shipped Away: For Louisiana children and teens in crisis, help is often far from home
Inpatient psychiatric resources for patients under 18 are scarce across the state, leading many to be placed in treatment hours away from their communities.
Southwest Louisiana lacks mental health professionals — a new program hopes to change that
Placing counseling students with providers for required training is difficult, especially in post-storm southwest Louisiana. A new program offers assistance.
Food as medicine? Acadiana doctors to start prescribing fruit and veggies
Through a new program, 600 families will receive debit cards loaded with $40 each month, for six months, which they can use to purchase fruits and vegetables.
Lafayette PD suspends mental health initiative
Police officials cited a lack of staff to man regular patrol while several officers are out on administrative leave following officer-involved shootings.
A program to keep Lafayette kids out of jail is in the works — here’s what it could look like
A Calcasieu Parish program connects young offenders to services that can help them and their families get back on track. State officials are developing something similar for Lafayette.
Proposed legislation would bar the state Department of Children and Family Services from requesting waivers for work requirements attached to federal food aid.
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UL students, faculty criticize handling of student’s suicide
Students and faculty members gathered on UL’s campus to protest the university’s handling of a student’s on-campus suicide.
In South Dakota, a mental health triage center takes pressure off jails and ERs. Could it work in Lafayette?
In Sioux Falls, SD, a collaboration between the city, county and local providers has helped take pressure off of the local jail and emergency departments.
Rapides library offers telehealth to a town without doctors
The Rapides Parish Public Library system hopes telehealth can expand access to medical care for residents of Glenmora and other towns like it across the rural parish.