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Mental Health Groups Focus on a Fragile Ferguson

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With the impact of the grand jury decision in the police shooting of Michael Brown still fresh for residents of Ferguson, Missouri, mental health groups are offering support and counseling to community members dealing with anger and grief. A week before the decision, Missouri Gov. Louis area and hundreds more to Ferguson.

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Attendee Volunteers: A Meeting’s Best Customer Service Team

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Instead of relying only on internal staff or a mix of staff and venue or destination teams to handle onsite customer service at meetings, some associations are asking attendees to volunteer. But there’s still another way associations staff their onsite customer service team: with member volunteers. Louis, Missouri.

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Obama Military-Surplus Rule Change Draws Mixed Response

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In its place will be new standards for “effective community policing”—a clear response to recent outbreaks of violence between police and civil rights activists in Ferguson, Missouri, and elsewhere. NTOA praised the bill, which also has support from the NAACP and a number of local police department groups in the St.