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  • Responding to a mental health crisis without badges or guns

    December 19, 2022 |

    The Kansas Leadership Center Journal (KLC Journal) |

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    Response Location: United States, Eugene, Oregon

    CAHOOTS offers counseling, conflict resolution, mediation and referral and transportation to social services and/or basic emergency medical care to people experiencing a mental health crisis. CAHOOTS is available 24/7 and sends out crisis workers and medics as an alternative to uniformed police officers. CAHOOTS has significantly lightened law enforcement’s load, allowing officers to focus more on other public safety issues while preventing unnecessarily sending people through the criminal justice system.

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  • How protecting trees can fight gentrification

    December 19, 2022 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Activists in Los Angeles are taking legal action to ensure black walnut trees' protections are not violated by developers to help prevent gentrification and extreme heat.

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  • Libros y raíces: LibroMobile fills a literary need as Santa Ana's only bookstore

    December 19, 2022 |

    el Don |

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    Response Location: United States, Santa Ana, California

    Libro Mobile works to increase accessibility to free books and reading spaces amidst widespread gentrification while simultaneously uplifting local authors and artists of color in its open, free-to-access space.

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  • The vegan leather made from India's waste flowers

    December 19, 2022 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: India, Kanpur

    Phool, a startup in India, makes a plant-based leather alternative using flower petals discarded from Hindu temples after rituals to feed microbes that grow the material. The product, named Fleather, keeps flower waste from contaminating rivers and is a sustainable, biodegradable alternative to animal leather.

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  • Unlike most jails in Kansas, Douglas County has found a way to lock up fewer mentally ill inmates

    December 19, 2022 |

    KMUW |

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    Response Location: United States, Kansas

    In Kansas, Douglas County jail reduced the number of incarcerated people with serious mental illness with a suite of practices including connecting them to mental health workers, providing rides, and helping them prepare for life outside of jail.

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  • A solution to the housing shortage?

    December 19, 2022 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States

    Home builders in the United States are producing homes up to 50% quicker with modular housing. This process involves manufacturing different parts of the home in a factory and assembling all of those parts on-site.

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  • Cooking class series encourages friendship & healthy eating for seniors

    December 18, 2022 |

    Richland Source |

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    Response Location: United States, Mansfield, Ohio

    The Idea Works Entrepreneurs Kitchen is a commercial kitchen co-working space that hosts a series of classes to teach seniors how to cook. With the help of grant money, the classes help combat social isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, while also helping seniors learn new skills and improve their nutrition.

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  • How Cleveland's Circular Economy Programs Help Reduce Waste And Build Jobs

    December 16, 2022 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    Circular Cleveland is a project run by the city and a nonprofit to help Cleveland develop a circular economy. Through community ambassadors, grants, and consultants the program is helping innovators and companies make circular switches.

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  • UNICEF plans big expansion of program to educate Rohingya children in Bangladesh

    December 16, 2022 |

    BenarNews |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh

    The Myanmar Curriculum pilot project allows Rohingya children living in Bangladeshi refugee camps to be educated with the curriculum and language of their native country. The aim to make an eventual return to their home country easier. So far, 200,000 children have been enrolled, mostly in grades 1 through 4. UNICEF plans to scale the program to cover all 410,000 school-age children in the camps.

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  • How New York Is Giving Residents A Voice In The City Budget

    December 16, 2022 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    New York City's Civic Engagement Commission has run two pilot projects implementing participatory budgeting, a process in which local residents help decide how local funding should be allocated. The latest pilot project allocated $1.3 million to 33 projects in "priority" neighborhoods, including youth sports programs and culturally-based mental health workshops.

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