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  • The Answer to our Youth Mental Health Crisis?

    To provide mental health care to students, a pilot program at Girard College meets students where they are at with practices based on integrated behavioral health, adding mental health care into conventional health care settings.

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  • To Stem Shootings, Poughkeepsie Is Bringing Therapy Directly to City Streets

    SNUG Street Outreach is a state-funded violence prevention program that brings mental health care out into the community to the places where people spend their time. Trained social workers go out into the street, people’s homes and local businesses where they establish relationships and slowly build up to providing counseling through more casual conversations, even over text messages. A community-based approach allows them to connect with people who are at high-risk of committing gun violence, as well as people who have been victims of gun violence themselves or in their social networks or communities.

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  • Heat dome made British Columbians more anxious. Could prescribing nature help?

    A Canadian doctor partnered with the British Columbia Parks Foundation to launch PaRx, A Prescription for Nature. The program helps health care providers prescribe time in nature for patients experiencing depression and anxiety related to climate change.

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  • Virginia clean energy job training program climbs its own learning curve

    To ensure that marginalized communities, include Black residents and the formerly incarcerated, have the skills and opportunity to be a part of the growing solar and energy-efficiency industry in the community, Bridging the Gap offers free, intensive solar-training courses to them.

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  • The Ohio Organization Rekindling Indigenous Foodways

    The Native American Indian Center of Central Ohio opened a food truck that sells Indigenous cuisine to boost public awareness of the Native American community and increase intertribal and inter-generational knowledge sharing.

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  • Asher Craig: 'We are walking our talk' in Bristol's experiment in democracy

    A year after Bristol convened a randomly selected 60-person citizens’ assembly, which brought together a representative and diverse group of residents to tackle complex issues facing the city, they have delivered a set of recommendations. The panel produced 17 recommendations, with a total of 82 associated actions on three topics: climate, transport and health. Fourteen recommendations have been fully agreed to and eight have been dismissed. Participants also report positive effects of being able to work together across diverse ideologies and experiences, as well as from the civic participation more broadly.

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  • Strengthening Surveillance and Vaccine Uptake to Curb the Transmission of Circulating Vaccine Derived Polio Virus in Kano State

    Outbreak Response teams travel from house to house in Kano, Nigeria, making sure children are vaccinated against wild poliovirus to prevent its spread.

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  • More voters, less party affiliation 2 years into automatic voter registration

    Nevada’s automatic voter registration (AVR) system has added over 320,000 new voters since its launch in 2020, expanding access to many. Unless they opt out, the AVR system automatically registers eligible voters, or updates their voter information, whenever they complete a transaction with the DMV. Since they are registered as nonpartisan by default, it has diversified the state’s voter pool. Officials still perform checks and balance to keep voter rolls clean, including the Electronic Registration Information Center that compares voter registration data between states to identify out-of-date records.

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  • Redefining Mobility For Children With Disabilities

    Angel Rider Wheelchairs provides free wheelchairs to children across Rwanda. The group constructs and distributes the wheelchairs themselves and coordinates with the National Council of Persons with Disabilities, who provides a list of children nominated to receive one. Access to the wheelchairs have changed the quality of life for many of the children, allowing them to attend school and other social activities for the first time in their lives. The non-profit has donated over 2,000 wheelchairs in the last five years.

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  • Asthma affects thousands of Oakland kids. These residents are working to prevent it

    To help prevent children with asthma from missing school and being hospitalized Asthma Start provides their families with education and resources like mattress and pillow covers and cleaning supplies.

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