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  • Redefining Masculinity: This Initiative Engages Men In The Fight Against SGBV

    June 01, 2024 |

    The Solutions Paper |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Enugu

    Boys Champion educates young boys on healthy masculinity, combatting cultural norms that lead to sexual and gender-based violence through various outreach initiatives, mentorship opportunities, and events held at local schools. Since 2018, the group has reached more than 10,000 young boys, teaching them ways to promote gender equality in their communities.

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  • Dwindling Fish Populations Causing Conflicts over Fishing Grounds in Homa Bay

    May 30, 2024 |

    Science Africa |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    To prevent conflicts between fishermen attempting to fish in the same areas in Rusinga Island, Kenya, a zoning method was created. Each group of fishermen are allowed on certain fishing grounds for 15 days, then they must rotate.

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  • A post-mortem on Oregon's drug decriminalization efforts

    May 29, 2024 |

    WBUR |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    While the decriminalization effort Measure 110 failed to fully meet the mark, the Health Justice Recovery Alliance joined forces with local law enforcement to create a pilot program that helped locals struggling with addiction. Through the program, police can contact an outreach worker who will come to the scene and connect the person struggling with addiction to support services such as detox care and housing, helping lead them toward long-term recovery. So far, the pilot program has helped over 200 people.

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  • Inside Vermont's Radical Approach to Helping the Formerly Incarcerated Succeed

    May 28, 2024 |

    The Appeal |

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    Response Location: United States, Vermont

    Vermont built volunteer-led Circle of Support and Accountability groups into its reentry system to help keep those who’ve committed sexual crimes from reoffending. The volunteers meet with people who were formerly incarcerated weekly to offer advice, encouragement, and support while they transition into life outside of prison.

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  • How cognitive behavioral intervention is reducing gun violence in Chicago

    May 17, 2024 |

    The Columbia Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    The Institute for Nonviolence Chicago is working to reduce gun violence by reaching out to victims and perpetrators immediately after the violence. The organization negotiates peace and offers cognitive behavioral intervention services to help them develop strategies to keep negative emotions from turning into violent actions.

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  • How Dallas tackled violent crime

    April 25, 2024 |

    WBUR |

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    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    Dallas implemented a practice known as “hot spot policing” to reduce violent crime and increase community trust. In this strategy, law enforcement focuses on prevention in very specific areas with significant concentrations of crime, sometimes as small as an apartment building or business.

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  • St. Paul partnership brings trust, opportunities to troubled Karen youth

    April 25, 2024 |

    Minnesota Star Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Paul, Minnesota

    A partnership between the local school district, police and the nonprofits the Karen Organization of Minnesota and The Urban Village is helping fight addiction and gang influence among Karen youth. Since the partnership was formed, overdoses among youth have decreased significantly, and some students have begun forming supportive relationships with specialists from nonprofits and local police whom they can lean on when they need to.

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  • A City Tries to Measure the Violence It's Preventing

    April 22, 2024 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

    A violence prevention program in Baton Rouge is working to reduce gun violence and help mothers and those affected cope and move forward in a healthy way. The street team with the non-profit C.H.A.N.G.E supports grieving families, provides targeted interventions and community engagement efforts around gun violence, and collects data to measure their work’s impact over time.

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  • Friends Don't Let Friends Buy Guns

    April 04, 2024 |

    The Trace |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Inspired by successful public health messaging campaigns of the past, the U.S.-based nonprofit Project Unloaded is using a bottom-up approach to promote gun violence prevention among young people. The nonprofit is working with highschoolers to develop social media messaging campaigns debunking the common misconception that owning a gun makes you safer.

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  • Why Portland failed where Portugal succeeded in decriminalizing drugs

    March 28, 2024 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    After the Oregon Legislature voted to reverse a law decriminalizing drug possession for personal use in response to a spike in overdoses, advocates attributed the legislation’s failure to poor implementation, complications related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and inadequate time to produce results.

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