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First Step launches teams to respond to emergencies
COMMUNITY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH RESPONSE TEAMSMobile Response Team (MRT) & Behavioral Health Response Team (BHRT)Mobile Response…
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First Step of Sarasota Announces Formation of Behavioral Health Response Team, Partnering with Law Enforcement
SARASOTA, Fla., Dec. 15, 2020 — First Step of Sarasota today announced the formation of…
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Are Minorities More At Risk of Mental Health Problems During This Pandemic?
Local broadcast news outlet WSNN has done an interview with Tracey Weeden, head of First…
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First Step and Coastal Behavioral Healthcare Officially Merge
SARASOTA, Fla., July 1, 2020 – After a nine-month consolidation process, First Step of Sarasota…
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Officials watch First Step of Sarasota County CEO Shawny Robey cut the ribbon to open the new 40-bed Community Offender Rehabilitative Treatment (CORT) program facility.
Officials open First Step facility ...
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Detail image of place settings at the Caring Hearts Luncheon
Photo gallery of Caring Hearts Lunc...
The Caring Hearts event supports First Step's Mothers and Infants Program, a substance-abuse tr...
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Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Founda...
The Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation has awarded a $50,000 grant to support First Step of Sar...
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The First Step Toward a Better Tomorrow
3 Join First Step of Sarasota Board...
SARASOTA, Fla., Nov. 10, 2020 — First Step of Sarasota continues to build on the strategic positio...
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First Step launches teams to respon...
COMMUNITY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH RESPONSE TEAMSMobile Response Team (MRT) & Behavioral Health Respons...
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The First Step Toward a Better Tomorrow
First Step of Sarasota Announces Fo...
SARASOTA, Fla., Dec. 15, 2020 — First Step of Sarasota today announced the formation of a Behavior...
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First Step Suicide Prevention Video
First Step Suicide Prevention Video...
First Step Suicide Prevention video. For more than 50 years, we have been "Caring for Our Community"...
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Tracey Weeden, head of First Step of Sarasota
Are Minorities More At Risk of Ment...
Local broadcast news outlet WSNN has done an interview with Tracey Weeden, head of First Step of Sar...
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The First Step Toward a Better Tomorrow
First Step and Coastal Behavioral H...
SARASOTA, Fla., July 1, 2020 – After a nine-month consolidation process, First Step of Sarasota an...
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The First Step Toward a Better Tomorrow
First Step of Sarasota and Coastal ...
SARASOTA, Fla. – The two nonprofit agencies First Step of Sarasota and Coastal Behavioral Healthca...
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