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  • Closing the Gaps

    October 01, 2021 |

    QNotes Carolinas |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Petersburg, Florida

    Black members of the LGBTQ community have benefitted from the wraparound services provided by Metro Inclusive Health. The nonprofit provides a model to nonprofits in Charlotte that are looking for a roadmap to provide economic mobility to this demographic. Services offered by Metro include both health and wellness outreach.

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  • ‘I Don't Want to Hit My Children. I Don't Want to Hit Anybody.'

    October 01, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: England

    The Respect Phoneline started in the UK in 2004 to give anonymous callers, usually men, a way to seek help for their violent impulses. Rather than putting the burden for resolving domestic violence on survivors and on the punitive tools of the criminal justice system, the hotline approach recognizes that people prone to abusing others are frustrated and unhappy and want to change but need help to figure out how. While the aftermath of anonymous phone counseling can't be tracked, the author observed the process helping many men change their thinking. Similar hotlines have started in multiple places.

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  • An unprecedented state program is already fulfilling its promise to house the most vulnerable

    October 01, 2021 |

    Monterey County Weekly (Monterey County Now) |

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    Response Location: United States, Salinas, California

    Over 120 hotels and motels have been converted into affordable housing developments in California, housing 8,260 people who were previously experiencing homelessness. Known as Homekey, the state-funded program was initially meant to quickly house vulnerable populations in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Funding for the next two years has already been approved for what advocates are calling “Homekey 2.0.”

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  • Das zurückgewonnene Paradies

    September 30, 2021 |

    SZ Magazin |

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    Response Location: Egypt

    Um die Klimaerwärmung zu stoppen, ist es notwendig den Prozess der globalen Entwaldung nicht nur zu bremsen, sondern zum Teil auch umzukehren. Vergangene Projekte haben gezeigt, dass dies auch in sehr öden Landstrichen möglich ist. Ein niederländischer Geo-Ingenieur hat nun einen Plan entwickelt, um aus der Sinai-Halbinsel in fünf Schritten eine grüne Oase zu machen. Er meint, die wieder ergrünte Gegend könnte dann Milliarden Tonnen CO2 binden.

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  • Learning when to be hands-off

    September 30, 2021 |

    Boulder Weekly |

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    Response Location: United States, Boulder County, Colorado

    Although several Colorado law enforcement agencies have trained officers on how to de-escalate interactions with people in a crisis, including people with disabilities, the state in 2022 will become the latest to mandate such training for all law enforcement officers. The training is backed by a study that suggests it helps police better recognize and understand the reactions that people with disabilities might have under stress in a confrontation with police. Trained officers in Boulder last year successfully ended one potentially violent incident without serious inury.

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  • Community-owned mobile parks keep eviction at bay. Can they work in North Carolina?

    September 30, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, Texas

    Some states and cities protect residents of mobile-home communities from eviction with opportunity-to-purchase laws, which require the corporations that rent the land beneath a mobile home to give residents a chance to buy a community when it's for sale. But most places in the U.S. lack such laws, and often zoning rules favor corporate owners. So organizations like ROC USA provide the financial leverage to help residents band together to own their communities, which are also called manufactured housing. ROC has helped 280 communities in 18 states make such purchases.

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  • Planting a Life—and a Future—After Prison at Benevolence Farm

    September 30, 2021 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Graham, North Carolina

    Benevolence Farm hosts a small number of formerly incarcerated women as live-in laborers growing herbs that end up in body-care products. The farming experience teaches marketable skills, as the women learn the finer points of horticulture. It also provides outdoor, hands-on experiences that are therapeutic to women after they spent months or years locked up in a sterile prison. The rural location poses some challenges, but the dozens of women who have spent 12-18 months living and working there have shown much lower-than-average rates of recidivism.

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  • Mradi wa ‘Elimu Ni Sasa Initiative' Wasaidia Wanafunzi Kwale

    September 29, 2021 |

    RadioRahma |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    Mradi wa serikali ya Kaunti ya Kwale iitwayo "Elimu ni Sasa" imewawezesha zaidi ya watoto 32,000 wanaofanya vyema na hawawezi kulipa karo kupata elimu. Kupitia kwa bajeti ya kaunti, watoto werevu ambao ni mayatima ama wanatoka kwa familia maskini wanahifadhiwa kujiunga na shule ya upili na kulingana na jinsi wanavyotia bidii wanasomesha hadi chuo kikuu.

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  • California outlawed the all-white-male boardroom. That move is reshaping corporate America

    September 29, 2021 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    A 2018 law requires all publicly traded companies headquartered in California have at least one woman on their board, and as many as three women by the end of 2021 depending on the company’s size. The law, inspired by those in Europe, caused a ripple effect nationwide where women now occupy 50% more corporate board seats than before California’s law. The Nasdaq exchange became an influential force recently by requiring that nearly all of its listed companies’ boards have one woman and one person of color or a person who identifies as LGBTQ. Despite challenges, federal regulators approved the requirement.

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  • California's new vote-by-mail system is a big win for marginalized groups

    September 29, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    A new California law makes universal mail-in voting permanent after it was temporarily adopted for the 2020 election in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Expansion of mail-in voting in 2020 resulted in higher voter turnout, especially among low-income and communities of color. Moving forward, all voters will receive a ballot in the mail 29 days before each election. Voters can fill out their ballot, return it using a prepaid envelope or drop it in a secure drop box, and track in transit online. They also still have the choice to vote in person.

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