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More than three months after the shootings at the Tops Market, there is still fear and grief in the community. Jay Moran talks with Kelly Dumas, LCSW , The chief operating officer of BestSelf Behavioral Health, and Kevin Beckman, BestSelf’s Vice President of Health Home. Kelly is also chair of the will also address why it’s important to be specific in identifying and addressing race equity in your diversity goals and how to be intentional in this work and sustainability. Beckman is a LMHC a mental health counselor and addiction / substance abuse counselor.
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Deidra EmEl is the Executive Director of the Western New York Peace Center. As an educator, counselor, Community Health Worker, urban homesteader/farmer, and doula she has much to say about the health of the East Side and it's future. Also, on the program insight into the supermarket situation on the East side from national consultant Phil Lempert of supermarketguru.com. And Doug Ruffin from Buffalo History Works continues the supermarket talk by remembering FIGMOS, the independent Black owned supermarket on Jefferson Ave., circa 1981.
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As the application process begins for the 5/14 Survivors Fund, one survivor is struggling to put her life back together.
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WBFO’s Tom Dinki synthesizes his four-part series on extremism in WNY with news director, Dave Debo. Kelly Marie Wofford, Director of Health Equity in Erie County talks with Brigid Jaipaul-Valenza about health outcomes and the challenges BIPOC communities face.
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A plethora of emergency mental health and food services have descended on the predominantly Black East Side neighborhood surrounding Tops in the days since the shooting.
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Mental health professionals say the trauma of Saturday's shootings at the Tops Friendly Market on Jefferson Avenue will have a lasting effect on many who were both directly involved or had some other connection to the event.
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The shooting of Dominique Thomas has renewed questions about the role of police in a mental health crisis, but the larger question seems to be the role of the community.
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A community activist and former Buffalo Police Advisory Board member is questioning why police used lethal force.
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Buffalo Police have released a nearly four-minute video from one of the body cameras worn by officers who shot a man armed with a knife on Hertel Avenue early Monday morning.
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While the COVID pandemic presented a serious challenge to the mental well-being of countless Western New Yorkers, mental health experts and advocates say suicide rates in Erie County actually declined over a two-year period. Wednesday morning, the Suicide Prevention Coalition of Erie County will discuss the trend as part of its annual meeting, being held online.