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  • Finding affordable mental-health care getting easier with reforms, new programs

    New Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics provide mental health services to all residents with a diagnosed mental health condition. Fees are based on income and insurance coverage, using a sliding scale discount program to help remove the financial barriers that often prevent those in need from seeking care.

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  • Germany's lessons learned from the 2015 refugee crisis

    Drawing on lessons learned during the 2015 refugee crisis in Europe, organizations such as Zusammenleben Wilkommen are working to connect Ukrainian refugees with housing, employment, and social support. Since the Russian invasion, the platform, which helps match refugees with rooms in shared apartments, has seen a spike in users offering up accommodations.

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  • El agua que nace de los árboles: la masiva reforestación en los Andes para enfrentar el cambio climático

    La recuperación de una festividad tradicional en la cordillera del Vilcanota en Cusco, organizada por la Asociación de Ecosistemas Andinos (ECOAN), ha involucrado a veinticinco comunidades a participar en la reforestación de la cordillera con árboles nativos. El proyecto inición en el 2000 y ya ha reforestado más de 700 hectáreas.

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  • Moving Mississippi beyond Jim Crow one voter at a time

    Mississippi Votes has engaged tens of thousands of young voters as well as those who have not historically participated in the electoral process. The organization boosted their digital presence to reach younger voters, engaged people as young as 16 in different capacities, and has several paid fellowships to engage youth more intensively in conducting voter outreach, education, and registration. The organization has registered over 30,000 new voters since 2018.

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  • Mansfield homeless pilot project plans to ask, 'What do you need?'

    A successful initiative in Indiana is asking people experiencing homelessness what they need in order to find housing and stay housed. The years-long program has provided food and shelter resources as well as permanent housing and employment.

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

    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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  • College. Work. Starting a business. KC grads with disabilities have options

    The Transition Academy connects people with mental and physical disabilities with helpful resources to increase their access to jobs and higher education. The group also connects families with resources, experiences, and knowledge to create a smooth transition out of high school for students with disabilities and provides a Facebook community for families to connect and share insights.

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  • Moda sostenible: Vestir bien sin dañar al planeta

    Emprendimientos sostenibles, asociaciones de confeccionistas, sellos de sostenibilidad, son acciones específicas tomadas en los movimientos de moda y creación de ropa y accesorios en Paraguay, para que esta industria pueda tener un impacto en positivo en medioambiente, la economía local y la sociedad.

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  • More Public Defense Spending

    The Defender Association of Philadelphia practices community-oriented public defense — also known as "holistic defense" — to connect clients with support services and resources that help address the root causes of crimes. The association works with social workers, investigators, and paralegals to get clients access to housing, food, jobs, and healthcare, as well as mental health and substance use treatment, with more than 150 people referred to treatment providers between September 2016 and January 2017.

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  • The struggle to help LGBTQ foster youth aging-out of the system

    The Fostering Connections to Success Act helps aged-out foster children obtain housing, but it's not always easy for LGBTQ+ youth to find safe, accepting places to live. But with the newly implemented Resource Family Approval program, members of area child protective services departments and foster care representatives meet with potential foster families to evaluate how they would support LGBTQ+ youth in their home.

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