Listed below are articles and stories about Community Alternatives or relevant to those served by our organization.

By Judith Ewbank, MA
Street Talk
April - June 2007

It’s a busy Saturday night. You’re called to a scene where someone is suicidal or is exhibiting other symptoms of a persistent mental illness. You’ve been here many times before to intervene with this person. No actual crime has occurred, but it’s clear this person needs help and a more comprehensive intervention. You call EMS and send the individual to a hospital, but in a few hours he is released and you are called to intervene again. You want to help this person, but you can’t provide the services he needs due to job constraints and other, more urgent cases to be addressed. You know you will continue to receive calls about this person for the rest of the night, through the weekend and into the next week. More..

By Clay Barbour
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
Thursday, Apr. 05 2007

The St. Louis melting pot is getting more flavor, helping to stabilize the region's population.

The continued growth of the immigrant community is a big reason why the St. Louis metropolitan area remained the 18th largest in the nation, according to new figures from the U.S. Census Bureau. The region's population stayed at about 2.8 million as of July, the census estimates show.

Over the past six years, the St. Louis area had a net gain of 26,000 immigrants, according to the figures, and that helped offset the loss of about 23,000 people who moved from here to other parts of the U.S. More..

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
Feb. 05 2007

Like most immigrants, Susan Turay faced a series of challenges when she arrived in St. Louis nearly two years ago.

She spoke little English, had no job, no money and no home. But in many ways, those obstacles paled in comparison to the psychological barriers she wrestled with as a recent refugee and the survivor of torture. More..