The City of Philadelphia’s Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual Disability Services joined with NET Centers to dedicate Access Point. Access Point is an around the clock unit where people suffering from opioid addition can get immediate medical attention.

She was so determined to find a permanent home that she was willing to leave Philadelphia. She got to know Carly King - an adoption supervisor - on road trips to mixers for eligible adoptive parents and foster kids.

The bleachers at the MLK Recreation Center at 21st and Cecil B. Moore Avenue were packed as community members came out to see the 3rd annual Fall Classic All Star Game. The exhibition game, celebrating the start of Juvenile Justice Week, featured youth from the Philadelphia Providers’ League playing against an all-star team of juvenile probation officers.

The young boys at the Evening Reporting Center are writing their own soundtrack in the juvenile justice system.

There’s been a dramatic increase in the number of drug related overdose deaths in the Philadelphia region.  Friday the city opened a much needed rehab center.