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  • Kentucky Program Supports Inmates With Substance Use Disorder

    March 19, 2024 |

    The Daily Yonder |

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    Response Location: United States, Greenup County, Kentucky

    First Day Forward provides support and assistance to people with substance use disorders who are reentering the community after incarceration in seven rural counties. The program is driven by peer-support specialists who have lived experience to provide trusting support to those seeking assistance. The program has been shown to work as the recidivism rate for those who’ve successfully completed it has dropped to 23.5%, compared to 53.2% in a nearby county.

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  • Ugandan Women Team Up To Change 'Men-Only' Real Estate And Construction Industry

    March 19, 2024 |

    Solutions Now Africa |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Uganda

    Mutindo Women aims to increase representation in the construction and real estate industries by connecting women to networking and job opportunities. Mutindo Women has built over 15 houses across the country since forming in 2019, and has even collaborated on projects with men in the field.

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  • Ratas en el paraíso

    March 19, 2024 |

    Radio Ambulante |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Ecuador, Galapagos Islands

    Conservationists are eradicating an invasive species of rat on the Galapagos Islands to protect native species, many of which are endangered, and local agriculture. To do so, they capture native species that could be harmed, then scatter rat poison around the islands by hand, drone, and helicopter.

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  • Attendance tracking program helps combat chronic absenteeism

    March 19, 2024 |

    Ashland Source |

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    Response Location: United States, Ontario, Ohio

    A specialized software called AttendanceK12 helps school secretaries, attendance counselors, and administrators more easily track student absences so they can intervene with families sooner, even offering options to automatically send parents an email when students reach a certain threshold of missed school hours. School leaders consider the technology an important element of a strategy that has helped reduce chronic absenteeism rates.

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  • Oman's mountain oases offer ancient farming lessons for a warming future

    March 18, 2024 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Oman

    Ancient farming techniques are helping locals to preserve the environment and agroecology while still managing to sustainably grow food in the midst of climate change and other outside challenges. Moreover, the ancient farming practices are a major attraction for agritourism, helping bring money to local communities.

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  • Telehealth is making abortion way more accessible for disabled people, but it's not perfect

    March 18, 2024 |

    Reckon |

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    Response Location: United States

    Telehealth appointments make it easier for people with disabilities to access healthcare, including medication abortions, by allowing those in need to access care from the comfort of their own homes. For many people, this eliminates several access barriers they often face when seeking care. Post-Roe, medication abortion via telehealth visits accounts for 16% of all reported abortions.

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  • A California Program to Get Produce to Low-Income Families Is a Hit. Now It Is Running Out of Money.

    March 18, 2024 |

    Capital & Main |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    The CalFresh Fruit and Vegetable EBT Pilot Program rewards healthy shopping choices with a dollar-for-dollar instant rebate at participating grocery stores. 74,000 people in 44 of California’s 58 counties benefit from the program.

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  • What If Finding Affordable Housing Worked More Like Matchmaking?

    March 18, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Brilliant Corners helps vulnerable, low-income individuals secure housing by working with other local organizations, including the Flexible Housing Subsidy Poll, which helps match people with suitable housing options. Brilliant Corners has helped about 13,000 people get into permanent housing and can cover over $10 million in rent subsidies every month.

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  • Migrants Navigate State's Apartment Program On Their Own As Evictions Loom And Help Runs Dry

    March 18, 2024 |

    Borderless Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Chicago’s federally-funded Asylum Seeker Emergency Rental Assistance Program is helping migrants move out of shelters by covering six months of rent.

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  • Exonerees, crime survivors come together for healing

    March 17, 2024 |

    CBS News |

    Video |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    Healing Justice brings exonerees, crime victims and family members from a variety of cases together to share stories, play games, connect and heal together while facing the traumas of wrongful convictions. Since 2015, Healing Justice has hosted 17 retreats, where exonerees and crime victims gather for three days to work through their traumas together.

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