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A promising new tool against child abuse

Lauren Villagran

May 12, 2018 |

Searchlight New Mexico |

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Response Location: United States, Albuquerque, New Mexico

A pilot program in New Mexico shows promise in helping stabilize families at risk of homelessness by giving them subsidized housing combined with social services like therapy and addiction treatment. Keeping Families Together prevented numerous children from entering foster care and reduced repeat cases of abuse and neglect, and is cost-effective. But it's unclear if it will continue with state funding, bringing instability once again to many participants.

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The Surprisingly Simple Way To Save Babies' Lives

Melody Schreiber

May 11, 2018 |

Bright Magazine |

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Response Location: Brazil

Premature babies have an 80 percent greater chance of neonatal mortality if they don't get breast milk. Brazil has a donation-based milk bank system that's saving money and lives. There are 230 milk banks in the country, dramatically expanding access. Between money-saving innovation and smart national policy, the country dramatically increased positive health outcomes and is now an international model.

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Rescued by Books: Fostering Teen Literacy in Low-Income Communities

Ruth Ebenstein

May 05, 2018 |

Los Angeles Review of Books |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

The Book Truck is a nonprofit that addresses the issue of "book deserts" in Los Angeles by providing free books and literacy programming to over 10,000 teenagers across the city. The truck was established in 2012 and has since handed out over 17,000 books. Participants in the program attest to how the program has changed their life because reading is now a tool to learn more about themselves and the world, to develop leadership skills, and to even make new friends.

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30,000 Copies and Counting: This Newspaper Helps Inmates Prepare for Life on the Outside

Shaima Shamdeen

April 19, 2018 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, Cincinnati, Ohio

In Cincinnati, a resource guide helps those currently or previously incarcerated find resources like housing and employment so they can transition back to the community. The newspaper, called Re-enter into Society Empowered, or RISE, was created by a woman who struggled with addiction and incarceration. It features stories of recovery as well as resources in the community and the staff provide peer mentoring and advice to current inmates.

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Is this the future of Seattle transit? A look at Vancouver, B.C. — a city that figured it out years ago

David Gutman

April 19, 2018 |

The Seattle Times |

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Response Location: Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia

The mantra of public transit officials in Vancouver is: “The best transportation plan is a good land-use plan.” Their ideology, clearly manifested in public transit development over the last several decades, has led to construction that is intentionally centered around transit stops. By making public transit stops convenient along with providing a world-class transit system, it is easy for residents to use it. Seattle, with similar demographics and severe traffic challenges, can learn from this model.

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How France Cut Heroin Overdoses by 79 Percent in 4 Years

Olga Khazan

April 16, 2018 |

The Atlantic |

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Response Location: France

In 1995, following high rates of deaths by heroin overdose, France implemented new policies that allowed primary care physicians to prescribe buprenorphine, a drug that helps curb opiate cravings, to patients suffering from opioid addiction, drastically reducing overdose deaths. In the U.S., doctors are required to go through a special addiction training to be able to prescribe buprenorphine, meaning that very few U.S. doctors can prescribe it.

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Telemedicine transforms healthcare in Dadaab

Evelyne Makena

April 15, 2018 |

Mediamax Network |

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Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

Gertrude Children's Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya has a new telemedicine program that allows pediatric specialists to consult on cases in rural areas of Kenya. Specialists can hold consults with patients via webcam to help clinics that don't have access to pediatricians offer a higher standard of care to patients without having them travel prohibitively long distances to larger hospitals.

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Saving lives: Nonprofit trains public to administer naloxone to reverse opioid overdoses

Faith Miller

March 20, 2018 |

Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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Response Location: United States, Tempe, Arizona

In Arizona, nonprofit organization, Sonoran Prevention Works, is providing the public with naloxone and training on its administration, in an effort to widen the scope of who is able to help during an opioid overdose. Training is similar to that of other first aid responses – participants receive background information, step-by-step directions, and the needed equipment. While law enforcement and medical professionals are open to the idea, they do so with caution about potential harm it could do.

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Districts save billions in malaria campaign

Lilian Namagembe

March 14, 2018 |

Daily Monitor |

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Response Location: Uganda

Uganda uses indoor insecticide in houses and other structures to reduce cases of malaria. Allowing local governments to manage the program rather than hiring partners has more than halved implementation costs.

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From pump factory to Pump House Ministries

Courtney McNaull

March 13, 2018 |

Richland Source |

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Response Location: United States, Ashland, Ohio

After a manufacturing plant closed and ownership shifted hands, the F.E.Meyers building was transformed into Pump House Ministries, a non-profit that expanded internationally. In its heyday, it served free meals, built transitional housing, distributed shoes abroad, and supported micro-lending and water purification in Africa. Beyond the initial donation of property, most of these efforts were supported by revenue generation through its social enterprise arm: by its catering business, craft shows, and book sales. (This is the first article in a four part series.)

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