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Julia Ann Garcia, a nursing student at UNM talks about suicidal awareness at the Agora Crisis Center on Monday afternoon. She works for the center as a volunteer to provide help for the people showing suicidal tendencies or anyone who is in need of emotional support.
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UNM student lends an ear to people in need

William Longenbaugh | February 24

The Agora Crisis Center has a hotline that takes calls on issues like domestic violence, LGBT issues, rape and suicide. One of the people working for the crisis center hotline is Julia Garcia, a nursing student who offers time out of her busy schedule to help others who are struggling. "Through Agora, you do a month long training that is really intense, but only one day was focused on suicide," Garcia said. "So I did another set of training regiments to get the Suicide First Aid certification so that I could intervene in suicide cases."

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No easy solution to stop school shootings, professor says

William Longenbaugh | February 22

On April 20th, 1999, in Columbine, Colorado, two eighteen year old high school seniors named Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School and slaughtered 12 students and one teacher before killing themselves in a new, unprecedented kind of crime. According to an NBC report on 20/20 with Diane Sawyer that aired Feb. 12th, there have been upwards of 270 school shootings since Columbine, two of which occurred just this past month in Miami and Phoenix.

A sign hangs at the entrance to the Manzanita Counseling Center. The center offers free services and is ran by graduate students who are under the supervision of licensed counselors.  
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Counseling center provides care for community, experience for students

William Longenbaugh | February 16

The Manzanita Counseling Center allows students and residents alike in the Albuquerque metro area to receive professional counseling services at no charge. Director Rhonda Neswald-Potter said Manzanita has the CACREP (Council for Accreditation of Counseling & Related Educational Programs) accreditation, which is the highest standard for a counseling supervision program. "Other counseling centers across the country would aspire to the standard we hold here,” she said. “There is so much need in our community for free or reduced fee care.”

The Albuquerque Police Department plans to reasses its policies and training with regards to the treatment of the mentally ill.
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APD aims to reassess use of force with mentally ill

William Longenbaugh | February 12

Use of excessive force and the handling of mentally ill individuals have been significant issues for law enforcement in Albuquerque, but despite national attention and heavy scrutiny, Albuquerque Police Department, the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department and UNM personnel have steadily corrected the issue.

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