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  • When federal health care falls short, tribes improvise

    October 27, 2017 |

    KUNM |

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    Response Location: United States, New Mexico

    Indian Health Service, the Native American Health federal agency, has not always been an ideal health program due to lack of funding and lack of flexibility to each tribe. More tribes are opening their own clinics in order to tailor health care to their needs and create more jobs, or taking over the behavioural health programs only.

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  • Why This Cardiologist Is Betting That His Lab-Grown Meat Startup Can Solve the Global Food Crisis

    October 24, 2017 |

    Inc. Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    "If I continued as a cardiologist, maybe I would save 2,000 or 3,000 lives over the next 30 years, But if I focus on this, I have the potential to save billions of human lives and trillions of animal lives," explains Uma Valeti a cardiologist turned clean meat founder and engineer. Valeti, along with a team of similarly minded colleagues are looking to market the first ever meat that doesn't come from killing animals.

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  • Hair stylists, barbers tackle St. Louis' STD problem

    October 19, 2017 |

    St. Louis Post-Dispatch |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    St. Louis has one of the highest rates of STDs and HIV in the state, but the city's Health Department has implemented a creative method for providing safe sex education and testing. The staff at salons and barber shops - who are trusted community members and serve to provide all manner of relevant information to their patrons - leverage key health resources to those populations that need them most.

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  • How Chicago Created ‘Community College' for Special Ed Students

    October 19, 2017 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    After students with intellectual and developmental disabilities from Chicago's West Englewood neighborhood complete four years in traditional high school, they are eligible to attend Southside Occupational Academy for four additional years - the transition center "is not [a] replacement for traditional, integrated high school, it’s a complement to it." Southside provides vocational training and training in basic life skills to students.

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  • Why Cities Shouldn't Bend Over Backwards for Corporations

    October 18, 2017 |

    Pacific Standard |

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    Response Location: United States, Kansas City, Kansas

    Flirting with a corporation can end badly. In exchange for city-wide wireless broadband, Kansas City gave Google near-free rein including fast permitting, free office space, low fees, and taxpayer funds. A few years later, Google restructured to become Alphabet and started cancelling hundreds of hook-ups.

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  • Could Field Trips Push Kids Past Their Violent Realities?

    October 17, 2017 |

    NationSwell |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Many kids living in low-income areas of Chicago never leave their isolated neighborhood, leaving them with a lack of knowledge about the outside world, and a plethora of knowledge about gangs and danger of their area. Embarc is an extra-curricular program that brings these kids on field trips to places around the city. It provides experiential development allowing them to see new things, shadow different careers and build trust.

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  • Inventing a Vocabulary to Help Inuit People Talk About Climate Change

    October 17, 2017 |

    Smithsonian |

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    Response Location: Canada, Inuvik

    A graduate student from British Columbia, the Arctic Energy Alliance, and the elders of the Inuvialuit people may seem a strange team, but together they are tackling the dual concerns of climate change and the loss of indigenous language in Canada. By inventing new terms and words in the Inuvialuit language to describe renewable energy technologies, they are increasing awareness about sustainable development while helping preserve the culture and heritage of this unique population.

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  • India tries coding camps, craft centers and all-girls schools to fight illiteracy

    October 16, 2017 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: India

    In India, an intense gender disparity has continued to develop in the sphere of educational attainment. This article discusses new innovations, both public and private, seeking to bridge this attainment gap and increase female enrollment in schools.

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  • See Who Just Pledged $8 Billion to Protect the Ocean

    October 11, 2017 |

    News Deeply |

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    Response Location: Malta, St. Julian's

    The world's oceans are in serious trouble, facing threats of irreversible ecosystem damage from climate change and reckless human activity; and the scope of the problem is far too vast and complex for any single nation or entity to successfully address. The Our Ocean Conference has provided a platform where governments and companies are coming together to push for collective action, creating a healthy competition to provide solutions and raise resources, as well as a shared source of inspiration for change.

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  • 'Some people believe disability is contagious': breaking down barriers in Mozambique

    October 10, 2017 |

    The Guardian |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Mozambique

    In Mozambique, people with disabilities face a series of barriers to success and independence, ranging from education to the workplace. In partnership with Young Africa, the international organization Light for the World is working to give people with disabilities the training and resources they need to make a living.

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