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  • Amid Debate Over Gun Policy, An Unlikely Team Finds Some Consensus in N.H.

    May 23, 2018 |

    New Hampshire Public Radio |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    With rising suicide rates and the high rate of suicide by firearm, gun owners and public health workers collaborating in the hopes of preventing more deaths. The Gun Shop Project, based in New Hampshire, is working to provide gun store owners and firearm instructors with fliers and videos about suicide prevention.

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  • Tracing Illegal Guns

    May 23, 2018 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Albuquerque, Pennsylvania

    A publicly available online platform launched by the New York Attorney General fills in big data gaps on guns being used in crimes and trafficked from elsewhere. “We were able to get a snapshot really quickly of where the worst guns are ending up and where they started.” The data can establish groundwork for interstate trafficking cases and also inform policy decisions and New York is happy to share the technology other communities can build their own databases.

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  • Opioid Crisis Compels New York to Look North for Answers

    May 21, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Canada, Toronto, Ontario

    Supervised injection sites in Canada have prevented hundreds of heroin overdose deaths. Now, New York City is looking to follow Canada's lead with a city-wide initiative to establish safe injection sites. While the Trump Administration is not in support of such sites, experts believe that it is unlikely that the federal government would interfere with a site if a city is in support of it.

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  • New Hampshire syringe programs: 'Meeting people where they're at'

    May 19, 2018 |

    New Hampshire Union Leader |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Rochester, New Hampshire

    Hand Up Health Services is a syringe services program that provides clean needles to addicts, also known as “needles exchange” programs. The program is only one of two in New Hampshire. While there's a lot of stigma behind these types of programs, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions shows that “ people who inject drugs are five times more likely to enter treatment if they connect with an SSP.”

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  • Australia confiscated 650,000 guns. Murders and suicides plummeted.

    May 18, 2018 |

    Vox |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Australia

    After passing the National Firearms Agreement in 1996, Australia saw a striking decline in suicide and homicide raters. The agreement – a result of a mass shooting – included a ban on certain kinds of guns, a mandatory buyback on those guns that had been deemed illegal, as well as amnesty for those who illegally possessed firearms to turn them in. In the years leading up to the agreement, the country witnessed 13 mass shootings; since then, Australia has seen only one.

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  • Want to Quit the Gang Life? Try This Job On

    May 15, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Being in a gang or selling drugs is risky and often poorly paid, but many people caught up in it see too many obstacles in alternate paths to change. Readi Chicago addresses these barriers with cognitive behavioral therapy and subsidized jobs that allow participants to gradually build up skills and move into better positions. But the most important people are the outreach workers, many of whom came out of incarceration or gang life, and can build relationships to convince people to sign up.

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  • Fighting Street Gun Violence as if It Were a Contagion

    May 08, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Most tough guys with guns don’t want to shoot. Trained violence interrupters can therefore jump in and find alternative ways to mediate disputes. Hired from the same neighborhoods in which they work, violence interrupters and outreach workers form the backbone of Cure Violence, a neighborhood-level program that has gone global treating gun violence as a self-replicating disease.

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  • Chicago's South Side Finally Has an Adult Trauma Center Again

    May 01, 2018 |

    The New Yorker |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    In 2018, years of community activism resulted in the opening of the first advanced emergency trauma care center on Chicago’s South Side since the 1990s. One study showed gun assaults taking place more than five miles from a trauma center disproportionately affected Black victims and caused higher death rates because of delays in reaching adequate care. One such fatal incident prompted protests and community organizing around demands for a Level 1 adult trauma center at University of Chicago Medical Center, which finally were successful eight years later.

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  • How Saguaro National Park Hopes To Catch Prickly Cacti Thieves

    April 30, 2018 |

    NPR |

    Multi-Media |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Saguaro National Park, Arizona

    The National Park Service has resorted to microchipping hundreds of saguaro. Despite extensive legal protections, the iconic cacti are going missing. Rangers can only read the microchip by scanning a suspect cactus, but they hope this move will serve as an additional deterrent to would-be thieves hoping to cash in on the demand for saguaro among building owners.

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  • Stopping violence like it was a virus

    April 27, 2018 |

    BBC |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Gang violence in Chicago is not uncommon, but one organization is working to change what happens in the aftermath of funerals. Dubbed a public health program, Cure Violence enlists the help of community members to attend funerals, provide food and build trust with those that have been impacted by this violence in order to deter future incidents from taking place.

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