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How client advocates are quietly reshaping criminal defense

Amanda Hernández

June 10, 2025 |

Stateline |

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Response Location: United States, California

Partners in Justice pairs trained client advocates with public defenders to help people facing charges get access to support and resources that can improve their outcomes in court. One study found that this type of holistic model helped reduce expected sentence length by 24 percent.

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How Treating Teens' Trauma Is Stopping Violence in Chicago

Dan Gorenstein, Ryan Levi

June 05, 2025 |

Tradeoffs |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

The violence prevention program Choose to Change pairs cognitive behavioral therapy with intensive mentoring for high-risk Chicago teens, resulting in a 31% reduction in overall arrests and 39% reduction in violent crime arrests that lasted up to four years after program participation.

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To improve youth mental health, these programs start by educating parents

Ethan Therrien

June 02, 2025 |

Capital News Service Maryland |

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Response Location: United States, Kensington, Maryland

Parent Encouragement Programs teach parents new ways to connect and communicate with their children, helping them become more understanding and less authoritarian. Research shows that after seven weeks of classes, parents report increased satisfaction in their relationships with their children.

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'Motivated and inspired': California inmates are improving mental health behind bars

Francine Kiefer

May 16, 2025 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

In Los Angeles County Jail, a peer-to-peer mental health program called Forensic Inpatient (FIP) Stepdown has incarcerated individuals trained as mental health assistants supporting fellow inmates struggling with severe mental illnesses. Started by inmates themselves, the program has significantly reduced self-harm incidents, improved hygiene and social functioning, and restored dignity to inmates who participate.

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Rapid-response teams aid troubled youths in New Jersey – but funding limits Maryland's similar effort

Colin McNamara

April 07, 2025 |

Capital News Service Maryland |

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Response Location: United States, New Jersey

New Jersey’s Mobile Response and Stabilization Services help support youth in crisis by connecting them with a mental health professional to avoid unnecessary emergency room visits or police calls. New Jersey’s system has been an inspiration to other states looking to implement similar services, and it served over 32,000 youth in 2023 alone.

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Care About Food Waste? In Massachusetts, You Can Be a Compost Consultant.

Somini Sengupta

March 25, 2025 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

To support a mandate requiring certain businesses to divert organic materials from landfills, Massachusetts provides state-funded consultants that offer free, hands-on assistance. These consultants visit businesses like restaurants, identify specific challenges, propose practical solutions such as targeted bins and signage, and connect owners with compost haulers and food recovery charities.

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How Nigeria's Biggest Party Made HIV Testing Cool

Ogar Monday

March 17, 2025 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Calabar, Cross River

The Wise Up Campaign works to increase HIV testing rates and reduce transmission of the disease through educational efforts and connecting with young people, a particularly high-risk group, to spread awareness and connect them with necessary resources. Since forming, the campaign has reached over 500,000 young people with HIV counseling and testing, as well as condom distribution, and has even trained several young volunteers to continue spreading the message to their peers.

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Successful Birmingham program faces funding gap despite reduction in youth crime

Alaina Bookman

March 13, 2025 |

AL.com (Alabama Media Group) |

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Response Location: United States, Birmingham, Alabama

RESTORE is a juvenile re-entry program offering supportive programming and guidance to intervene in cycles of crime and help more youth avoid the juvenile system and learn to make more positive choices. Already this year, RESTORE has served 344 young people through their workshops. Since launching in 2023, the program has helped 19 people graduate with their high school diploma, GED or a certification.

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Birmingham hospital program offers hope amid homicide crisis: How it works

Alaina Bookman

March 12, 2025 |

AL.com (Alabama Media Group) |

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Response Location: United States, Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham’s Offender Alumni Association is a group of violence intervention specialists that check in with gun violence patients at the hospital to offer mental health services and case management to prevent reinjury and retaliatory violence. Since launching, the group has taken on 144 clients, providing wrap-around services to victims and their families, including mentoring, emergency relocation and funds for medicine, groceries, rent and utilities.

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Pelican Bay offers a model for prison education. Its future is in doubt.

Troy Aidan Sambajon

February 20, 2025 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Crescent City, California

Project Rebound at the Pelican Bay State Prison is a partnership with California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt that provides associate and bachelor’s degree education to incarcerated individuals. Research shows access to higher education in prison lowers recidivism rates and increases the likelihood the person will find a job post-incarceration. Currently, about 14,000 incarcerated individuals in the state are taking classes toward a college degree, or about 15% of the prison population.

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