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  • This Fitness Entrepreneurship Course Is a Second Chance for the Formerly Incarcerated

    June 09, 2021 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    People who spend their time in prison getting physically fit might seek to turn what they've learned into a job as a fitness trainer, once they're released. But felony convictions act as a barrier to such jobs. A Second U Foundation, founded by a formerly incarcerated man who faced such barriers, provides an eight-week course in running a fitness-training business. Of the 200 people who have taken the course since 2015, three-quarters have been hired by health clubs, while the others started their own businesses. Foundations and grants foot the bill so that the training is free.

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  • Affordable housing expansion happening on Indy's west side

    June 09, 2021 |

    WRTV-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Indianapolis, Indiana

    With 2,300 people on a wait list for affordable housing, the city of Indianapolis pumped $3 million into a vouchers program for 2021 that has already housed 672 people. Some of the vouchers are set aside for military veterans and their families experiencing homelessness. The city contracted with a national affordable-housing developer and property manager. The housing market has priced many people out of affordable, safe options. A new 61-unit development is under construction, with more homes dedicated to reducing the numbers of unhoused veterans.

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  • Sustaining the Work of Artists With a Living Wage and Benefits In Western Massachusetts

    June 09, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    Artists at Work is a pilot project of THE OFFICE performing arts + film that paired artists with cultural and community partners to work on local initiatives. For their work, the artists were paid a living wage, including healthcare, which resulted in responses to issues like youth mental health, food justice, and COVID-19 awareness campaigns in communities that are marginalized. From empowering youth to build community through food and farming to engaging young queer people of color, the successful six-month pilot led to a new fundraising campaign to continue and expand to seven regions across the U.S.

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  • Centre jeune Amour et Vie : là où on freine les grossesses en milieu scolaire au bénin

    June 08, 2021 |

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    Response Location: Benin

    Au Bénin, depuis 2013, des centres d’information sur la sexualité sont installés dans des collèges et lycées afin de faire diminuer le nombre de grossesse en milieu scolaire. D’un collège doté de Centre Jeunesse Amour et Vie à un autre, la courbe des grossesses est descendante pour les trois visités.

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  • Recovered Covid Patients Send Their Leftover Meds to Those in Need

    June 08, 2021 |

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    Response Location: India, Mumbai

    Volunteers with India’s Meds For More initiative (MFM) collect leftover unused medications from recovered Covid-19 patients by canvassing their apartment buildings, offices, student clubs, schools, and other locations. Once collected, MFM distributes them to NGOs licensed to work in the health sector, who transport the medicines to marginalized communities in urban and rural areas. Medical professionals sort and pack the medicines and give them to local hospitals and health care centers, who distribute them to patients. The success of the program has inspired similar initiatives in several other cities.

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  • The helpline for jealous and violent men

    June 08, 2021 |

    BBC |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Colombia, Bogotá

    Most domestic violence telephone helplines offer help to women who have been abused, and counseling programs for men provide their services in prison, once men have committed serious violence. But Línea Calma tries to prevent domestic violence by offering men psychological counseling by phone. The sessions of 60 to 90 minutes focus on helping men understand their feelings of rage, often linked to jealousy and machismo. In just a few months, the line (which in Spanish means the Calm Line) has taken more than 2,000 calls and some couples attest to its effectiveness in enabling men to react more calmly.

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  • The Shot And A Shave: Inside A COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic At A Nashua Barbershop

    June 08, 2021 |

    New Hampshire Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Nashua, New Hampshire

    Community health workers are engaging small business owners to host local COVID-19 vaccination clinics. These smaller clinics, like La Fama 2 Barbershop, are effective because of the strength of interpersonal relationships. At the barber shop, the atmosphere is relaxed and the owner knows the needs of his customers. To make the information and vaccines accessible to the local Latino community, the clinic held Saturday afternoon hours and community health workers were present with information in Portuguese and Spanish. It helps for friends and families to get vaccinated together, among people they trust.

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  • Guilty or not Guilty? How PSN Africa is addressing the realities of postpartum depression in Lagos State

    June 07, 2021 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos State

    The Postpartum Support Network Africa turned a foothold in one Lagos hospital into a 50-hospital network in two states combatting postpartum depression by training healthcare workers, screening for the problem, and providing therapy to mothers. The World Health Organization estimates that postpartum depression affects nearly 1 in 5 women in developing countries. Though common, it can be hard to detect and many lack awareness of its symptoms and treatment. PSN Africa's six-year push to improve the response to the problem has reached tens of thousands of mothers and their caregivers.

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  • How to help someone struggling with mental illness

    June 07, 2021 |

    Popular Science |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The Mental Health First Aid course teaches people who are not mental health professionals to respond to people in crisis based on understanding rather than fear. Millions of people have taken the course in 24 countries since its introduction two decades ago. It has been shown to give trainees greater confidence in their ability to provide help, but its effects on the people receiving the care is less clear. The training can be particularly useful to healthcare and law enforcement workers who are more likely to encounter such scenarios.

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  • Can a Radical Treatment for Pedophilia Work Outside of Germany?

    June 07, 2021 |

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    Response Location: Germany, Berlin

    Prevention Project Dunkelfeld is "arguably the world's most radical social experiment in treating pedophilia." Its prevention-first approach to providing treatment to people who are sexually attracted to children means that it encourages people to volunteer for treatment and disclose past and planned crimes without the threat of being reported to authorities and punished. German law makes this possible, but in most places such crossing of lines from thoughts to action would be grounds for mandatory reporting. This policy and the program's disputed claims of effectiveness have drawn harsh criticism.

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