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  • L'association El' Cagette, la qualité pour tous dans les assiettes

    À Roubaix, l’association El’ Cagette s’est lancé un défi : rendre les produits de qualité accessibles au plus grand nombre. Dans leur grand local où se pressent 435 bénéficiaires, ses membres ont trouvé le moyen de mutualiser leurs commandes pour manger à moindre prix et sans gâchis.

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  • Biden's $400B plan to overhaul home care is 'more of a repair effort than a new direction'

    Several government programs and funding measures are emerging to improve home care options for families in need, such as increasing wages and benefit opportunities for providers. There are also nonprofits like All Things Home Care that provide transportation to area home care workers and represents its workers with a union to afford them better treatment to ensure those in need can still receive necessary care at home.

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  • Biden plan: How tax credits might be the solution for family caregivers

    The Veterans Health Administration's Caregiver Support Program offers resources to family caregivers looking after veterans, including a monthly stipend, medical services, counseling and mental health care, respite care and coverage for travel expenses. The Program launched in 2011 and by 2014 about 15,600 caregivers had been approved for support — greatly exceeding the Program’s original estimate of 4,000 people.

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  • Biden caregiving plan: Housing availability, politics hinder transition to more in-home care

    The Money Follows the Person is a federal program that increases access to Medicaid funds for home and community care services for people transitioning out of institutional care. The program has helped more than 101,000 people move out of long-term care facilities into community or home living. The program has also helped people save money by cutting taxpayers’ Medicaid and Medicare bills by about 23% for each person who was moved out of a nursing home or other institution. Based on the program’s success, the current administration is reviewing plans to extend or make Money Follows the

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  • Plagued by fighting and other disturbances, RCSD reconsiders police presence

    During the 2020 social justice protests, Rochester city school leaders quickly acted to remove police officers from the schools. A long-time goal of school-discipline reformers, ending the use of school resource officers was meant to create openings for responses to student violence other than arrest or suspension. Eighteen months later, the school superintendent sought to increase a police presence in schools in light of a rise in fights among students. Reform advocates accused the district of failing to follow through with effective alternatives to the punitive responses to discipline problems.

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  • In Southeast Alaska, a new type of conservation

    Collaboration amongst scientists, hunters, park rangers, former timber harvesters, and members of the Indigenous community is leading to new solutions for persistent problems. The Sustainable Southeast Partnership has been secured to “center indigenous-led stewardship” for sustainable solutions to conflicts that once pitted the unsustainable Alaskan logging industry with locals who were directly impacted.

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  • Hello? This Is Colombia's Antimachismo Hotline.

    Bogotá’s city government started the Calm Line to give men a way to connect by telephone with psychologists trained in therapeutic responses to the machismo that leads to gender-based violence. Despite doubts that Colombian men would use the service, the line fields about a dozen calls a day. "Fear, shame and confusion pervade many of the conversations," but also can lead to breakthroughs in understanding the attitudes that oppress women. That understanding is the first step toward cultural change, the Calm Line's supporters believe.

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  • Sanitation Solutions: When the city let them down, Philly rose up — with orange trash cans

    A Philadelphia-based program called I Love Thy Hood's stepped up to help attack the city's dirty streets problem. Fueled entirely by volunteer efforts, the program has placed more than 106 cans on blocks around the city and collected over 100,000 pounds of trash.

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  • Rural Health Mission Nigeria: Providing Lifesaving Care to Mothers and Babies in Plateau State

    The Lifesaving Intervention Project offers postnatal services to mothers and newborns via community health workers who are trained in maternal and child health. After giving birth, the women receive follow-up care over the phone and through home visits and are referred to health facilities when additional care is needed. The support services have increased the percent of women getting post-natal care and have improved postpartum mental health. The health workers also provide information about the health benefits of exclusive breastfeeding, delivering in facilities, and birth control to space out children.

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  • En RD-Congo, la production de serviettes menstruelles réutilisables améliore l'hygiène et l'autonomisation des femmes

    En RDC, l’accès aux serviettes hygiéniques est un casse-tête pour les femmes, notamment à cause de leur coût. L'ONG Uwezo Afrika Initiative basée à Bukavu fabrique depuis 2018 des protections hygiéniques en tissu et vendues à bas coût. En trois ans, elle a produit plus de 30.000 serviettes et emploie 8 personnes.

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