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  • Four WA communities tried to end youth homelessness. One is seeing success

    October 28, 2022 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Walla Walla, Washington

    Washington’s Anchor Community Initiative helps youth experiencing homeless by improving communities’ response systems with better data, more funding, and better connecting community organizations and specialists.

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  • Social Business Profile: Clear Voice – the award-winning language service helping refugees

    October 27, 2022 |

    Pioneers Post |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    Clear Voice specializes in interpreting, translation, and transcription services via phone, video, and face-to-face, as well as services to asylum seekers through its parent charity Migrant Help. The organization has been steadily growing since its inception in 2006 but has more than tripled its staff in the past 18 months.

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  • Nature-Based Education Is Super White. Not At Detroit's Urban Forest School.

    October 26, 2022 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    With the support of the Black to the Land Coalition, the Urban Forest School is a co-teaching and co-learning community that provides interaction, outdoor education, and play for children of color, providing them with a culturally grounded education. The Urban Forest School launched in late 2020, starting with monthly outings such as hikes in local city parks, trips to a planetarium and plant identification programs.

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  • Students with disabilities innovate ways to use spaces, products not designed for them

    October 26, 2022 |

    PBS NewsHour |

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    Response Location: United States, Berkeley, California

    Students in the UC Berkeley Disability Lab gather to work on projects and inventions aimed at improving accessibility for those living with a disability. The lab also provides students living with disabilities with a sense of community among each other.

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  • Record number of South Carolinians cast their ballots on the first day of early voting

    October 25, 2022 |

    WIS News 10 |

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    Response Location: United States, South Carolina

    After South Carolina lawmakers passed a new law in May allowing residents to participate in early voting without needing an excuse, the state set a new record on the first day of the early voting period with more than 42,000 ballots cast.

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  • For Disabled Workers, a Tight Labor Market Opens New Doors

    October 25, 2022 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Several companies’ newfound openness to remote work is leading to opportunities for people whose disabilities make in-person work difficult or impossible to find stable employment. The share of adults with disabilities who are working has soared in the past two years, far surpassing its pre-pandemic level and outpacing gains among people without disabilities.

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  • Minnesota Has Become an Island of Abortion Access

    October 25, 2022 |

    Pew Charitable Trusts |

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    Response Location: United States, Moorhead, Minnesota

    In the wake of the Supreme Court striking down Roe v. Wade, the Red River Clinic has become the go-to for abortion access, especially in the restrictive upper Midwest states. Minnesota clinics, like Red River, have reported a surge in patients from not only neighboring states but also from as far away as Texas.

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  • Affordable Housing for LGBTQ+ Seniors

    October 25, 2022 |

    CapRadio |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    Mutual Housing California opened Lavender Courtyard, a 53-unit affordable housing complex, with the goal of providing a welcoming and safe place for LGBTQ+ seniors who often face discrimination. Approximately half of the tenants are LGBTQ+, and residents say the project has given them a place to find community and feel safe being themselves.

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  • When Mental Health Crisis Responders Reach Rural Residents

    October 25, 2022 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Iowa

    Instead of calling 911, people experiencing a mental health crisis can contact new crisis response teams, like the Virtual Crisis Care program, to receive a visit from a mental health professional rather than a law enforcement officer. The service is free and the goal is to stabilize people at home instead of admitting them to a crowded psychiatric units or jailing them for behaviors stemming from mental illness.

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  • A Sightsavers Initiative is helping PWDs to Surmount Unemployment Challenges in Nigeria

    October 24, 2022 |

    BONews |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Okenne

    Sightsavers is an international organization that focuses on the prevention of avoidable blindness and the promotion of equality for people with visual impairments and other disabilities in the workforce through its Inclusion Works project. Since its inception in 2020, Sightsavers has helped more than 200 individuals with visual impairments transition into new employment.

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