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  • A Workable Alternative To Nursing Homes In Vermont — Adult Family Care

    April 27, 2019 |

    NPR |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Vermont

    Vermont is home to many senior patients with serious medical needs, but doesn't have enough nursing homes to accommodate. Now, some people are opening their homes to the elderly and providing necessary services - while the programs vary, residents often pay for room and board and the host family is paid by the state through Medicaid dollars. So far, the program has proven popular.

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  • Could a regional approach to teacher home visits work in King County? It has in Dallas and Fort Worth.

    April 25, 2019 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    Teacher home visits have been hailed as a strategy to improve student performance; however, in areas where students regularly move across district lines, a regional home-visit approach may be necessary. The Dallas-Fort Worth area has emerged as one model.

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  • In D.C., a call for restaurants to give fasting Muslims an alternative to IHOP in Ramadan

    April 25, 2019 |

    Religion News Service |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    Being inclusive involves demonstrating consideration and making space for the traditions and customs of others. To encourage these practices among businesses and restaurants in the Washington D.C. area with regard to the Muslim holiday of Ramadan, Katherine Ashworth Brandt started Dine After Dark. Currently, the nonprofit partners with Martha’s Table, offering additional meals during designated hours.

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  • When counselors are in short supply, students step in to help

    April 23, 2019 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Lacking sufficient counseling resources, schools are training students to fill the gap. The approach is not intended as a comprehensive solution, but as a way to help more students get connected with basic services.

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  • The grassroots groups helping asylum-seekers on the border

    April 22, 2019 |

    High Country News |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    The Kino Border Initiative is a volunteer binational organization that provides food, aid, and shelter for migrants crossing the border between Mexico and Arizona. The rate of asylum-seekers is steadily rising, and this organization makes sure that they have a safe place to live while they wait for their day in court. Every day up to 60 volunteers conduct services that range from preparing meals to translating Indigenous languages.

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  • Community buy-in stamps out elephant poaching in Zambian park

    April 22, 2019 |

    Mongabay |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Zambia, Luangwa Valley

    In the North Luangwa National Park in Zambia, a conservation team worked with local communities to bring the rate of elephant poaching in the area down to zero in 2018. Poaching had surged in the Luangwa Valley in 2014, and since then the group has protected the elephants by placing the decision-making and benefit-reaping in the hands of the community members. They use financial incentives to stir the economy without depending on poaching money, work with the government to revise policies that redirect any income for the area to benefit the residents, and they patrol the park for any poachers.

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  • Young Life at the Border

    April 22, 2019 |

    Christianity Today |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, El Paso, Texas

    For undocumented youth who commute between El Paso, Texas and Juárez, Mexico for school, finding a community to connect with and feel safe in is especially challenging. The Christian youth organization Young Life is there to fill that gap in immigrant students' lives by offering emotional and spiritual guidance as well as a support system that deals with any and all issues that arise, whether citizenship-related or not. The group has mentored hundreds of high school students whose lives straddle the border over the years, and many of those credit the group with helping them make sense of their "messy" lives.

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  • Barber pays kids to read a book during haircut to boost literacy, confidence

    April 22, 2019 |

    KUSA-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Kutztown, Pennsylvania

    City Cuts is a special barbershop in Kutztown, PA that, in addition to being a barbershop, is simultaneously running an internationally-acclaimed literacy program for kids. Barber Jon Escueta gives young clients $3 to read a book aloud to him during their haircut for a program he calls Books for Kids, which boosts confidence in public speaking and literacy. When a video of a client reading to a City Cuts barber went viral, Books for Kids starting receiving hundreds of donations of money and books from around the world, and the kids themselves love and respect the program as well.

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  • Teachers visit families at home in 700 communities nationwide. The idea is earning attention in Seattle.

    April 19, 2019 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Reno, Nevada

    For the past decade, teachers in the Reno, Nevada school district have visited their students' homes to build relationships with parents. New research shows that home-visits have led to reduced student absences and increased proficiency in English and math.

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  • This mobile cinema is helping women in Pakistan learn their rights

    April 19, 2019 |

    FastCompany |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Pakistan

    The Academy Award-winning documentary "A Girl in the River: The Price of Freedom" is being toured around small towns and villages in Pakistan, the country that the documentary is set in. The movie is about honor killings, but the director has since started hosting viewings of other movies about topics that discuss changes in the law and how women can advocate for themselves. The mobile cinema has since led to the closing of a "forgiveness" loophole in the law that allowed men to get away with the murders, and its model is now spreading to Bangladesh and Syria.

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