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'Playworks' reinvents recess as a learning experience

Christina Walker

April 21, 2025 |

Capital News Service Maryland |

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Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Playworks helps schools use recess as a tool for learning, with structured games and set expectations that teach students how to respect and include others, resolve conflicts, and manage their emotions. Studies show that the program helps reduce bullying while also helping students build skills that make them more successful in the classroom.

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Teaching mental health professionals to think like a farmer

Dean Kuipers

April 10, 2025 |

Food and Environment Reporting Network |

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Response Location: United States

LandLogic Model trains mental healthcare providers to use farmers’ relationships to their land to identify and treat depression, anxiety, and other emotional issues. Virtual and easily adaptable training models have helped the LandLogic Model support this notoriously hard-to-reach population.

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How a shelter hit by Trump's aid cuts protects LGBTQ migrants in Mexico

María Teresa Hernández

March 25, 2025 |

Associated Press |

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Response Location: Mexico, Tapachula

Casa Frida is a Mexican shelter and resource center serving LGBTQ+ migrants fleeing persecution and violence in their home countries. The organization provides temporary shelter and meals for a small number of people and helps dozens of others connect to legal guidance, temporary work, psychological counseling, and advice on renting safely.

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The Fifth Vital Sign: Atlanta Doctors Are Talking Climate Change With Patients

Alex Music

March 25, 2025 |

The Xylom |

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Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

Doctors are leveraging trust built over time with patients to combat misinformation around climate change. The Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health and its affiliates, including Georgia Clinicians for Climate Action, train healthcare providers on climate communication through fellowships, advocacy work, and educational materials to better equip them for these conversations.

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“Close the Gap” or Political Band-Aid? South Africa's HIV/AIDS Response

N. Sithole kaMiya

March 02, 2025 |

Modern Diplomacy |

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Response Location: South Africa

South Africa’s “Close the Gap” campaign aims to bridge disparities in HIV/AIDS treatment. To make the initiative more effective, some African countries are incorporating traditional health practitioners into the healthcare framework to provide more holistic care that bridges the gap between Indigenous cultural knowledge and modern medical practices.

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How farmworkers in Washington state got lawmakers' attention

Syris Valentine

February 04, 2025 |

Grist |

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Response Location: United States, Washington

Each year, farmworkers in Washington state gather for a people’s tribunal where they share their stories about the injustices they face on the job and advocate for policies to improve working conditions. In addition to supporters, the tribunal is attended by legislative staffers and sometimes elected representatives, and the tribunal’s findings have helped usher in new protections for workers, including guaranteed overtime pay and mandated cooling breaks in extreme heat.

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Miami Community Responders Work to Ease Mental Health Crises

Glendalys Valdes

January 31, 2025 |

MindSite News |

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Response Location: United States, Miami, Florida

Dream Defenders takes hotline calls and calls from law enforcement asking for outreach workers to intervene on crisis calls. Teams consist of mental health and medical specialists, as well as an experienced crisis counselor trained in de-escalation tactics, aiming to respond to crisis calls with more care and empathy.

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Cómo comunidades de Miami encontraron soluciones climáticas con un modelo de participación comunitaria

Clavel Rangel Jiménez

January 27, 2025 |

El Tiempo Latino |

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Response Location: United States, Miami, Florida

Usando herramientas de ciencias sociales, como el "design thinking" y el "photovoice," más la participación de funcionarios del condado de Miami-Dade y socios locales, proyectos estan transformando la planificación de adaptación climática en Miami. acercando los datos, y empoderando a las comunidades en la toma de decisiones.

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WA tribes crucial to salmon recovery, conservation throughout decades of work with state

Genevieve Belmaker

January 14, 2025 |

Tacoma News Tribune |

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Response Location: United States, Washington

Widespread involvement of numerous relevant government bodies at the tribal, city, state and federal level has led to a number of conservation wins in the Pacific Northwest, reflecting the huge influence tribes in the state have had on how environmental issues and conservation work are framed and executed.

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How forest therapy is helping survivors of wildfires reconnect with nature

Lauren Gilger

December 17, 2024 |

KJZZ |

Radio |

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Response Location: United States, California

Forest therapy, which was first developed in Japan in the 1980s, is being used to help survivors of wildfires in California. For many, but not all, it helps people reconnect with nature and adjust their expectations of what the forest can be for them.

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