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  • Can Prescription Meal Kits Help Fight Diabetes?

    January 22, 2024 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Stockton, California

    Healthy Food Rx is a prescription meal kit delivery program that delivers twice-monthly meal kits to adults with diabetes, providing them with produce and other healthy foods. The program addresses food insecurity, while also making a case for the power of using food as medicine to manage chronic conditions.

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  • Nonprofit helps Minnesota youth touched by domestic violence

    January 17, 2024 |

    Project Optimist |

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    Response Location: United States, Buffalo, Minnesota

    Rivers of Hope provides counseling and support services to youth who have experienced or witnessed violence at home. A primary goal of Rivers of Hope is to teach youth what healthy relationships look like and empower them to build and seek out healthy connections. The program started in 1991 and provides support and education to about 150 to 200 students each year, free of charge.

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  • Combinar la justicia restaurativa con la justicia penal, lecciones desde Navarra

    January 12, 2024 |

    Instituto de Periodismo Constructivo |

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    Response Location: Spain, Navarra

    Desde los primeros años del 2000, la Asociación Navarra de Mediación (ANAME) ha trabajado para garantiza como servicio público la justicia restaurativa, un proceso para la resolución de conflictos enfocado en la reparación del daño a la víctima y la sanación emocional de las partes implicadas y del tejido social. De los casos en los que las partes decidieron iniciar el proceso, el 72% terminaron en acuerdo, un resultado que coincide con la experiencia en otros países.

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  • Shining a Light on Snake Bites

    January 11, 2024 |

    Bluedot Living |

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    Response Location: India, Muzaffarpur, Bihar

    The addition of solar power mini-grids provides electricity to 50 houses in the village, making it possible for residents to monitor their homes for snakes — something that’s impossible to do without light — and prevent fatal snake bites. The 50 mini-grids were provided for free and since their installation in February 2023, the village hasn’t reported a single snake bite case.

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  • Can a Big Village Full of Tiny Homes Ease Homelessness in Austin?

    January 08, 2024 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

    Community First Village offers permanent affordable housing to people who are chronically homeless. The Village houses about 400 residents in tiny homes, while also providing a sense of community, including a convenience store, community garden, medical clinic and chapel. Community First Village is set to add nearly 2,000 homes across three locations and has also inspired several similar housing villages across the country.

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  • These Pinkston programs improve high school attendance, grades and even crime rates

    January 08, 2024 |

    Dallas Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    The Becoming a Man (BAM) and Working on Womanhood (WOW) groups take place in schools, providing a space for youth to talk, rest and receive mentoring and counseling from adults who relate to their experiences. This programming helps improve attendance, grades and well-being while preventing and reducing violent crime rates. BAM and WOW programs exist nationwide in seven major cities, serving about 13,000 students annually. Research shows that those participating in BAM or WOW are 50% less likely to be arrested for violent crime and 19% more likely to graduate on time.

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  • How Women Radio Centre is Fanning the Flames of Female Investigative Journalists in Nigeria

    January 08, 2024 |

    BONews |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

    The Women Radio Centre (WRC) works to empower the next generation of female investigative journalists, training them on reporting tactics to prevent gender disparities and promote reporting on women’s rights, as women are often underrepresented in investigative journalism. WRC also aims to equip young, female journalists with adequate training and connect them with job, networking and story opportunities. In WRC’s second year, 40 journalists have been trained and completed the program.

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  • An Overdose Antidote Goes Viral

    January 04, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, Middletown, New York

    Studies show that people who received at least one dose of naloxone following an opioid overdose are 11 times more likely to survive. In response, state policies and community-level programs and organizations are working to make naloxone accessible to those who need it. Today, naloxone can be found in grocery stores, gas stations, provided at events like concerts and community spaces like libraries.

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  • How mobile home co-ops provide housing security — and climate resilience

    January 02, 2024 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States

    Mobile homeowners are buying the land their homes are on to form resident-owned cooperatives so they can upgrade infrastructure faster. This allows them to combat and adapt to climate change by installing things like solar panels and drainage systems.

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  • Keene-based syringe exchange becoming a resource for gender-affirming care

    December 30, 2023 |

    Sentinel Source (The Keene Sentinel) |

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    Response Location: United States, Keene, New Hampshire

    The G.R.O.W. syringe service program (SSPs) helps people who use drugs and those who need injection supplies for gender-affirming hormone therapy get access to clean syringes and safely dispose of needles. Community-based programs like G.R.O.W. also offer first-aid kits, at-home HIV tests, Narcan and personal care items. There are currently 13 SSPs registered in the state. In 2023, G.R.O.W. alone distributed more than 44,400 syringes and collected about 37,700.

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