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  • Face Masks, Temperature Checks: The New Reality For Summer School Students Audio icon

    June 16, 2020 |

    Honolulu Civil Beat |

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    Response Location: United States, Hawaii

    Teachers and administrators at schools across Hawaii are adjusting to what it means to teach summer school during the time of coronavirus—and how it'll shape their protocols once fall rolls around. These adjustments include taking students' temperatures, drastically reducing the number of its in-person classroom capacity, and finding ways to equip those students who need equipment to join class online.

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  • When coronavirus closed schools, some Detroit students went missing from class. These educators had to find them.

    June 16, 2020 |

    NBC News |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    After the pandemic forced schools to close, educators in Detroit had to take on the role of "detectives" in order to track down missing students and help them stay on-track. After realizing the extent of the impact the coronavirus had on students and their families, educators resorted to persistent follow-ups, food deliveries, tracking families based on need, and providing grief counseling to help them cope with family losses and their changing environments.

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  • How Sweden's new consent law led to a 75% rise in rape convictions

    June 16, 2020 |

    The Local |

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    Response Location: Sweden

    In the nearly two years since Sweden broadened the definition of rape offenses to include cases in which a victim fails to signal consent, both the reports of alleged rapes and convictions have risen. During that time, 76 convictions were in cases that previously would not have been classified as rape because they lacked evidence of force, threat, or sex with an incapacitated victim. Rapes still go largely unreported to police and there's still no evidence that the new law will achieve the ultimate goal of reducing the incidence of rape.

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  • This Seattle protest zone is police-free. So volunteers are stepping up to provide security.

    June 16, 2020 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    In Seattle's police-free street encampment that sprang up during protests over policing abuses, a mostly unarmed group of volunteer "sentinels" has defused a number of potential problems while largely avoiding the use of force. Trained in de-escalation and mediation tactics, the sentinels have used listening techniques to understand people's anger or mental state. Among the incidents they have addressed: fights, attempted vandalism of storefronts, visits from armed people who wanted to confront a supposed leftist threat, and the attempted arson of a police precinct building.

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  • How Violence Interrupters Brokered An End To Anti-Black Attacks In A Latino Neighborhood Audio icon

    June 16, 2020 |

    Block Club Chicago |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    When protests against police violence turned into looting and anti-Black violence in some Latinx neighborhoods, violence interrupters from groups such as UCAN, EnLace, and Chicago CRED brokered a peace agreement that almost immediately ended that violence. The outreach workers’ years-long relationships and training in dispute mediation gave them credibility to address historic racial tensions among gangs in Lawndale and Little Village. The violence could have escalated, but three days of negotiation – and a sense of common cause against racism in policing – united the neighborhoods.

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  • How Decades Of Bans On Police Chokeholds Have Fallen Short

    June 16, 2020 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States

    One of the key police reforms sought after the death in Minneapolis of George Floyd, bans on chokeholds and other neck restraints, has failed to curb abuses in some of the nation’s largest police departments because of lax enforcement and easily found loopholes in such policies. Despite existing bans, some as old as 30-40 years, multiple people in those cities have died when neck restraints were used during their arrests with few repercussions. Lack of effective training and disagreements over such tactics’ efficacy are among other reasons experts say the practice persists.

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  • 3 lessons from how schools responded to the 1918 pandemic worth heeding today

    June 16, 2020 |

    The Conversation |

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    Response Location: United States

    The pandemic of 2020 bears a heavy resemblance to the pandemic of 1918, and the U.S. can learn from the successes of the past. Investing heavily in school nurses, fostering cross-sector and public/private partnerships, and creating “large, clean, airy school buildings” to continue serving families and children—decisions made over a hundred years ago that are still just as relevant today.

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  • Ventiladores mecánicos: ¿qué debe tener para mantener con vida a un paciente?

    June 16, 2020 |

    Animal Político |

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    Response Location: Mexico

    Esta publicación explica cómo debe ser un ventilador pulmonar mecánico para ayudar durante la pandemia del COVID-19. En México, al igual que en la gran mayoría de países del mundo, el sistema de salud no contaba con suficientes ventiladores para esta emergencia, entonces diferentes miembros de la sociedad civil juntaron esfuerzos y comenzaron a desarrollar sus propias máquinas de sanidad. Este reportaje presenta cómo una familia creó un ventilador que puede venderse en $700 para ayudar a la respuesta nacional de la pandemia.

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  • How Bangor drug court participants are getting help staying sober during the pandemic

    June 16, 2020 |

    Bangor Daily News |

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    Response Location: United States, Bangor, Maine

    Bangor drug court in Maine has turned to the use of Zoom to keep in contact with program participants during the Covid-19 pandemic. Although meeting via video call can disguise some physical symptoms of drug use, this new process has so far seen success with all participants still enrolled and one even graduating from the program.

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  • Public-Private Partnerships can help Nigerian hospitals improve maternal health; Here's how

    June 16, 2020 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos State

    Public private partnerships are helping hospitals in Nigeria provide more efficient care, especially as it relates to maternal health. In Lagos State, the model – which partners a private healthcare management firm with the hospital – has helped better equip facilities so more laboratory tests can be conducted in one place. Although this solution doesn't necessarily solve all problems faced by those seeking care, it has helped to provide a more sustainable model of healthcare in many cases.

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