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  • Vaccinated at the Ball: A True Story About Trusted Messengers

    June 15, 2022 |

    Word In Black |

    Illustrations |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Members of a local Black, LGBTQ+ community joined together with Chicago's COVID Rapid Response team to bring COVID-19 vaccinations to the city's Black and Latino LGBTQ+ population — a group that is severely lagging behind the general population in terms of vaccination rates.

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  • Boat Clinics Are Taking Healthcare To The Remote And Inaccessible Islands Of Sundarbans

    June 15, 2022 |

    NDTV (New Delhi TV) |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: India, New Delhi

    Boat clinics provide free mobile health care to those living in remote islands who typically struggle to access medical care. The clinics provide access to medicine, minor surgeries and testing and even set up camps off the boat in school buildings to make it easier for elderly locals to access care.

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  • Ivy Tech spent years trying to improve rock bottom graduation rates — and it's working

    June 14, 2022 |

    WFYI Public Radio |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Indiana

    An Indiana community college more than doubled its two-year completion rate by restructuring its remedial education program to get more students into college-level coursework as soon as they enroll. Students can now take corequisites, developmental courses completed alongside college-level courses in the same subject, and complete curriculum requirements more quickly during shortened eight-week sessions.

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  • Shakespeare in Prison program offers far more than an escape

    June 14, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    The Detroit Public Theater's Shakespeare In Prison (SIP) program allows incarcerated people the opportunity to learn about and perform Shakespeare. The program helps to foster communication but also allows participants to express themselves and build self-confidence. It’s also been found that SIP participants experience long-lasting effects even outside their sentence, like a positive sense of community, self-efficacy, and increased empathy for themselves and others.

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  • Arizona program hopes to be nationwide model for healthy babies

    June 08, 2022 |

    Arizona Daily Star |

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    Response Location: United States, Pima County, Arizona

    Health Start connects expecting mothers and their babies with a trained public health coach who provides resources and information about their child’s development and acts as a sounding board for their questions. These health coaches work and live in the same communities as the mothers and work outside of the traditional medical setting, operating more like a trustworthy friend, making mothers feel more comfortable and open with their concerns.

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  • How cancer patients are getting funding for treatment in Nigeria

    June 03, 2022 |

    International Centre for Investigative Reporting |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Benue

    Project Pink Blue helps cancer patients access treatment by raising funds, training medical personnel, and connecting patients in need with sponsors through their Adopt a Patient initiative. Project Pink Blue has also advocated for better healthcare policies in the state and even provides jobs to cancer survivors to help integrate them back into society.

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  • Metro Phoenix cities turn to homeless courts to help people navigate the justice system

    June 03, 2022 |

    AZ Central (The Arizona Republic) |

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    Response Location: United States, Mesa, Arizona

    When people experiencing homelessness in Mesa, Ariz. are charged with low-level offenses such as trespassing or public intoxication, they have the option to participate in community court to get their case dismissed if they agree to seek help from government programs and services. Participants are assigned a "navigator" to help them obtain required identification documents, search for housing, or apply for jobs, and more than 90% of those who graduated from community court in 2021 have not ended up back in the legal system.

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  • How employer benefits can ease burden on people caring for elderly loved ones

    June 02, 2022 |

    Livingston Daily |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Michigan

    Companies like Sanofi are beginning to partner with organizations like Bright Horizons to offer eldercare benefits to employees, like in-home adult care services. The benefit allows Bright Horizons to dispatch care workers to a person’s home and the company administering the benefit subsidizes the majority of the cost. Providing eldercare benefits reduces the burden on employees, allowing them to be more present at work. Since the pandemic, Sanofi has seen a 20% increase in the number of employees registering for the eldercare benefit program.

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  • How an Experimental Service in a Library Prevents Incarceration

    June 01, 2022 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    The Tap In Center in St. Louis connects volunteer attorneys with people who have open warrants to work toward recalling them. Since the service launched a little over a year ago, nearly 300 warrants have been recalled.

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  • Chicago Offers a Blueprint for Expanding Urban Internet Access

    May 31, 2022 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Chicago Connected is a $50 million four-year program that has already provided high-speed broadband to over 40,000 households in need, representing around 64,000 Chicago public school students, and plans to expand. On-the-ground community outreach in multiple languages was key to connecting residents to the program quickly, which was needed as school went virtual due to COVID-19. The public schools helped identify eligible low-income students whose parents were then contacted by outreach workers.

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