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FILE - Dr. Elizabeth Brett Daily talks with patient Haley Ruark about the medical abortion process at a Planned Parenthood clinic, Oct. 12, 2022, in Kansas City, Kan. Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains announced Tuesday, May 14, 2024, that Pittsburg, Kansas, will be home to a new facility providing abortion procedures and pills, as well as pregnancy services, contraception and testing and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

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Training prepares health care workers across Maryland to provide abortions

Ashley Sterner

How is a training program expanding access to abortion care in Maryland's rural areas?

When Cardin started speaking, protesting students stood and turned their backs to him — holding signs calling for a ceasefire. Photo by Bri Hatch/WYPR.

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UMB students protest pro-Israel Senator Ben Cardin at graduation

Bri Hatch

Around 30 social work graduate students turned their backs to Cardin as he spoke, holding Palestinian flags and signs calling for a ceasefire.

FILE - Chief Nurse Executive Danielle Maness stands in an empty examination room that was used to perform abortions at the Women's Health Center of West Virginia in Charleston, W.Va., June 29, 2022. A new abortion provider, the Women’s Health Center of Maryland, is opening this year in the Democratic-controlled state — just across from deeply conservative West Virginia, where state lawmakers recently passed a near-total abortion ban. (AP Photo/Leah Willingham, File)

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Moore administration puts more funds in increasing Maryland abortion services

Scott Maucione

A $10.6 million grant will help train new healthcare professionals.

Program Director Wendy Shaia speaks about the $5.5 million grant. Thanks to the grant, select students graduating from the University of Maryland Baltimore School of Social Work will be funneled directly into local public schools as mental health professionals. Photo by Bri Hatch/WYPR.

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University of Maryland Baltimore receives $5.5 million to send social workers to local schools

Bri Hatch

The school-based fellows will increase diversity, access in mental health services for students.

FILE - In this July 8, 2014 file photo, people walk on Johns Hopkins University's Homewood campus in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

WYPR News

Maryland universities receive $2.5 million in funds for mental health training

Scott Maucione

The federal grants are aimed at tackling the child mental health crisis.

A January, 1937 photograph of federal workers in the Division of Classification and Cataloging at the National Archives, Washington, DC. (photo credit: The U.S. National Archives via Flickr Commons)

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The future of work: The new forces changing where and how we labor

Jayne Miller

Guest host Jayne Miller speaks with a lawmaker, a scholar and a union president about the fundamental changes underway in the nature of office and factory work, and in the workforce itself.

(L-R) Heather Warnken directs UBalt Law's Center for Criminal Justice Reform; Lydia Watts is the executive director of University of MD, Baltimore's "Rebuild, Overcome and Rise" (ROAR) Center. (UBaltLaw/UMB photos)

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Heather Warnken, Lydia Watts on helping Baltimore's crime victims

Tom Hall

The two social activist lawyers discuss their efforts - through Warnken's Center for Criminal Justice Reform (UBalt Law) and Watts's "Rebuild, Overcome and Rise" (ROAR) Center (UMB) - to better assist Baltimore communities and individuals victimized by violent crime.