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  • Chain reaction: How an intervention led to women helping women in Wassa IDP Camp

    June 13, 2022 |

    International Centre for Investigative Reporting |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

    Grants for women living in refugee camps have helped recipients start businesses and learn new skills, allowing them to improve their quality of life. Additionally, the women created an informal cooperative and take turns investing a percentage of proceeds from each successful business into another member’s business.

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  • L.A. Jobs Program Creates Opportunities for Employment, Stability After Incarceration

    May 16, 2022 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Playa Vista Jobs’ Hatch Program is a three-phase program that helps people who were formerly incarcerated and recently released have a smooth reentry and find stable employment in the construction industry. The program begins with getting participants to open their minds to change and emotional healing followed by 500 hours of hands-on construction training in a stable environment, including regular meals. At the end of the program participants receive help securing employment.

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  • Laughing Bear Bakery has a recipe for a fresh start out of prison

    May 11, 2022 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    At her non-profit business Laughing Bear Bakery, retired chaplain Kalen McAllister hires only those with a criminal record and offers them a chance at employment, gaining work experience, and rebuilding their lives.

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  • Paid training, tuition assistance may be key to solving New York's nursing home staffing crisis

    May 04, 2022 |

    WBFO |

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    Response Location: United States, Buffalo, New York

    In an effort to boost staff and retain current healthcare workers, Catholic Health and McGuire Group's nursing homes are working with D’Youville University to fund the education of those interested in becoming a certified nursing assistant (CNA). Participants are paid for their time spent training and taking courses and are guaranteed a job once they complete the program. Catholic Health and the McGuire Group hired 29 CNAs from the program in 2022 across its nine nursing homes in the Western part of the state.

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  • LADWP Training Program Provides Power — and Good Jobs — to the People

    April 29, 2022 |

    Capital & Main |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    The Utility Pre-Craft Trainee program provides a pathway to upward mobility within the Los Angeles Department of Water and power. The program provides training and experience for skilled jobs and enables participants to achieve economic mobility. 

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  • Electric Bus Makers Pave the Way to Union Jobs for Disadvantaged Workers

    April 27, 2022 |

    Capital & Main |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    An electric bus manufacturer, Proterra, is providing training and jobs - especially for people from populations that typically have a harder time getting hired. The program was made possible through a Community Benefit Agreement (CBA) between Proterra and a local union. 

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  • How Michigan police agencies are training to respond to 911 calls with autistic people

    April 22, 2022 |

    Hometown Life |

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    Response Location: United States, Northville, Michigan

    The Northville Township Police Department and Michigan State Police (MSP) are adapting new autism awareness techniques by participating in the Action For Autism program. The program helps officers better understand people with autism to interact with them without making quick judgments that can result in violence. Officers who go through the training have begun gathering profiles of members of the area’s autistic community to be used in 911 calls and have begun carrying calming bags in their patrol cars. The MSP alone has trained about 1,500 MSP troopers and department personnel.

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  • Raise or retreat? Home elevation aims to protect historic houses

    April 15, 2022 |

    WAVY-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Virginia

    As waters continue to rise and flood homes at sea levels, some homeowners are spending thousands of dollars to raise their homes off the ground. This solution that has been tried in Charleston is expensive, but some people think it can also work in Virginia. One industry expert started the Home Raising Academy, a workforce development program, to train architects, engineers, realtors, and government officials on floodplain management, insurance, and financing for home elevations in the area.

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  • The Future of Work Is Green Jobs in New York

    March 31, 2022 |

    The River |

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    Response Location: United States, Hudson, New York

    Several organizations in the Hudson Valley provide workforce development training geared towards increasing the number of qualified workers who can go into the emerging green jobs sector. Ulster BOCES provides vocational programs for high school students that include on-the-job training and certificates relevant to the clean energy sector. NYSERDA’s clean-energy on-the-job training program provides training assistance and partial reimbursement for the wages of new hires.

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  • Opium production down as communities in Mexico's Golden Triangle turn to forestry

    March 29, 2022 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Durango

    Four communities in Durango, Mexico, turned to sustainable forestry practices to earn their livings and stop dependence on illegal crop production.

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