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  • Rural patients struggle to access expert sexual assault exams. Telehealth services are closing that gap.

    December 22, 2022 |

    The 19th |

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    Response Location: United States, Eagle County, Colorado

    teleSANE services allow remote sexual assault nurse examiners to assist patients and guide nurses through exams via video chat. teleSANE services are expanding across the country, specifically in rural areas, expanding access for those in need of care.

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  • COVID derailed pre-K programs. MSCS is trying to get them back on track.

    December 22, 2022 |

    Chalkbeat Tennessee |

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    Response Location: United States, Memphis, Tennessee

    To help incoming students recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Memphis-Shelby County Schools is emphasizing early childhood education with redoubled advertising efforts, collaboration with community groups, and an increased staff of family engagement specialists. Pre-K enrollment increased in the district in 2022-23 and students who attended pre-K are scoring higher on reading, math, and readiness exams.

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  • Bringing back California's wild bees

    December 21, 2022 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    The Bee Better Certified program encourages farmers to to build and restore habitat for native bees on their land. Doing so can earn them the certification, reduce the need to rent honeybees for pollinationion, and benefit the planet.

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  • Los retos de las ‘apps' antidesperdicio más allá de rescatar comida

    December 21, 2022 |

    Revista Haz |

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    Response Location: Spain

    Las ‘apps’ antidesperdicio nacieron hace seis años con la misión de disminuir los alimentos que terminan en el cubo de la basura cada día al echar el cierre de comercios y establecimientos de restauración. Uno de los apps, Phenix, ha logrado derivar hacia tres asociaciones benéficas en España un 73.000 kilos de alimentos (162.000 raciones de comida), que tiene un valor estimado de 177.000 euros.

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  • CHP is trying to attract nurse practitioners to the Berkshires by offering them residencies

    December 21, 2022 |

    The Berkshire Eagle |

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    Response Location: United States, Berkshire County, Massachusetts

    The Community Health Program’s Great Barrington Health Center and the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in Worcester partnered together to provide a residency program to attract nurse practitioners to the area. The program helps train nurse practitioners to provide care and master concepts like insurance policies and medical computer systems in areas that are lacking these medical professionals.

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  • Two-Spirit youth gift-giving project demonstrates the power of community care

    December 21, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Canada

    Gifts for Two-Spirit Youth solicits a wide variety of donations from around the world to create personalized gifts for Two-Spirit youth who might feel lonely or alienated during the holiday season.

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  • Women earn unique master's in ministry behind Tennessee prison bars

    December 21, 2022 |

    The Christian Chronicle |

    Multi-Media |

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    Response Location: United States, Nashville, Tennessee

    Lipscomb University's LIFE Program provides educational opportunities to women incarcerated at the Debra Johnson Rehabilitation Center, including a master's degree in Christian ministry. The courses are also offered to non-incarcerated people who learn alongside their incarcerated peers, and 13 students graduated from the program in 2022.

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  • Systems of Support

    December 21, 2022 |

    Inside Wire: Colorado Prison Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Remerg is an online resource that provides information about housing, employment, health care, social services, parole, and more for people who have recently left incarceration. The website has grown from roughly 150 visitors per month in its early days to more than 6,000 per month today.

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  • Abandoned homes: how village in Sumy region helps IDPs find new housing

    December 20, 2022 |

    Рубрика (Rubryka) |

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    Response Location: Ukraine, Kapustyntsi

    The village of Kapustyntsi, Ukraine, welcomed people displaced by the war into abandoned houses through Facebook posts. The community worked to clean up the houses, contact owners and heirs for permission to use them, or take legal action to claim them when necessary.

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  • A Small Mexican Town Becomes a Vital Way Station for Asylum Seekers

    December 20, 2022 |

    The Border Chronicle |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Sonoyta, Sonora

    Shelters for Hope converted an abandoned motel into a migrant resource center called the Centro de Esperanza and provides meals, legal assistance, clothing, and shoes to families seeking asylum in the United States. Shelters for Hope sees between 150 to 200 people a day and can currently house about 30 people.

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