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  • Preventing underage drinking takes more than scare tactics

    November 01, 2015 |

    Fairbanks Daily News-Miner |

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    Response Location: United States, Fairbanks, Alaska

    Rasmus and Allen are attempting to take the data they’ve gathered from their years working with western Alaska communities to establish Qungasvik as an evidence-based solution for not only alcohol abuse but also for other issues facing rural Alaska, such as suicide.

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  • Study: New Haven's Project Longevity shows positive results

    October 24, 2015 |

    New Haven Register |

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    Response Location: United States, New Haven, Connecticut

    Project Longevity, a program aimed at reducing violence by gang and group members, has had a positive impact in reducing shootings and homicides in New Haven, according to a study by Yale University sociologists.

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  • Heroin treatment, not jail, is aim of new Fayetteville initiative

    October 24, 2015 |

    Fayetteville Observer |

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    Response Location: United States, Fayetteville, North Carolina

    The Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion initiative is being implemented in cities across the U.S. Instead of arresting people accused of low-level drug crimes, the offenders are offered drug treatment, job training, mental health counseling, and other services.

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  • With gun violence a regular occurrence in Trenton, could hospital-based intervention benefit city?

    October 18, 2015 |

    The Trentonian |

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    Response Location: United States, Trenton, New Jersey

    The city of Trenton is trying to reduce gun violence. In Philadelphia, the Healing Hurt People is a hospital-based violence intervention program that employs trauma counselors to help patients suffering from gun violence.

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  • How puppets can stop vulnerable children from becoming sex offenders

    October 16, 2015 |

    The Independent |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, Bristol

    Be Safe uses tools like puppets to teach young children who are showing early signs of harmful sexual behavior how to control their sexual urges and what behavior is and isn’t appropriate. The goal is to intervene early to stop the behavior from developing into something more serious. So far, all but one child who graduated from Be Safe’s program has shown a reduction or total elimination of their behavior.

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  • Harvard's prestigious debate team loses to New York prison inmates

    October 07, 2015 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    The Bard prison initiative, in New York, allows inmates at correctional facilities to take liberal arts classes and improve their opportunities to find work upon release.

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  • San Francisco Is Changing Face of AIDS Treatment

    October 05, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    The H.I.V. infection rate in San Francisco dropped drastically after the city increased testing and created programs like Rapid, which immediately offer public health insurance, antiretroviral drugs, and personal counselors for people with AIDS.

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  • How L.A. Gets Kids to Show Up at School

    September 27, 2015 |

    The Buffalo News |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Schools in Los Angeles have strict consequences for truancy and tardiness but offer rewards and recognition for good attendance. Administrators use iPhones to record the ID numbers of tardy students, tracking them in order to engage the appropriate intervention.

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  • Prison Without Punishment

    September 25, 2015 |

    The Marshall Project |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Both incarceration and crime rates are low is Western Europe where the focus in prison is on rehabilitating prisoners so they can return to society. American leaders visited a prison in Germany to consider implementing certain aspects in the United States.

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  • The Case for Gun Courts

    September 24, 2015 |

    The Trace |

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    Response Location: United States, Rochester, New York

    Cities in the U.S. have decreased recidivism through specialized courts for firearm offenders. These efforts, however, have not helped overall gun violence, so university research is suggesting new tactics.

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