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  • Forgotten Landscapes: Bringing Back the Rich Grasslands of the Southeast

    June 20, 2019 |

    Yale Environment 360 |

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    Response Location: United States, Clarkesville, Tennessee

    A little known fact about the southeastern United States is that it used to be home to millions of acres of prairies and grasslands, and it remains one of the most biodiverse places in America. The Southeastern Grasslands Initiative is taking on the responsibility of documenting little-known species to better preserve species and educate others about the region.

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  • When There's No Doctor Nearby, Volunteers Help Rural Patients Manage Chronic Illness

    June 20, 2019 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Laramie, Wyoming

    In Wyoming, volunteers are given health care trainings to help them as caregivers to those with chronic illnesses who are too far away from a doctor to receive adequate care. That curriculum, along with support groups, is helping those in rural communities practice chronic disease self management to improve quality of life.

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  • LGBTQ-focused therapy center offers scholarships for transpeople of color

    June 20, 2019 |

    Philadelphia Gay News |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    There are many factors that prohibit people from being able to attend mental health counseling including financial reasoning and difficulty finding the right therapist. This is often even more difficult for the LGBTQ community, but in Philadelphia, the LGBTQ-focused Walnut Psychotherapy Center is helping to eliminate some of these barriers by creating a wellness fund that distributes therapy scholarships.

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  • How one school is getting kids fired up about climate solutions

    June 20, 2019 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    At Lowell School in Washington D.C., lessons about climate change don't just appear in science class, but also in most humanities courses. Cognizant of the stress this places on young students, the school has worked with the nonprofit Climate Generation to ensure the curriculum is solutions-oriented.

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  • How France is persuading its citizens to get vaccinated

    June 19, 2019 |

    Mosaic Science |

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    Response Location: France

    Boosting trust in vaccines requires rebuilding confidence in the health system. In France, where as many as one in three people express skepticism regarding vaccinations, health officials have undertaken proactive social media campaigns against disinformation in addition to increasing mandatory vaccine requirements for children. The lag in vaccinations among the French follows decades where several high profile failures of the health system led to widespread distrust and harmful long-term effects on vaccination rates.

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  • German patients get the latest drugs for just $11. Can such a model work in the U.S.?

    June 19, 2019 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: Germany

    The United States is currently facing a rise in the cost of specialty drugs, but the nation may be able to learn from Germany's successful approach to a drug pricing initiative. Based on keeping government involvement to a minimum, new drugs must go through a series of evaluations with a non-governmental agency before entering the market to prove that the new drug has an added benefit compared to the existing drug therapies.

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  • Can planting billions of trees save the planet?

    June 19, 2019 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: England

    Across the world, TreeSisters is partnering with local organizations to help reforestation efforts. The nonprofit is centered on bolstering local, community-based, and usually women-led initiatives in countries like Kenya and Madagascar. The organization cites the fact that women are most often the ones interacting with the environment, and so raising awareness and taking action in such a gendered way can leverage the most impact.

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  • Bitwise Goes Big

    June 19, 2019 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Fresno, California

    A company called Bitwise in Fresno, California thinks beyond financial gain and factors social background and economic justice into their developer training programs. Bitwise offers a coding school as well as a custom software business that hires graduates from their training program to help with commercial projects.

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  • How Facial Recognition Is Fighting Child Sex Trafficking

    June 19, 2019 |

    Wired |

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    Response Location: United States

    Thorn’s Spotlight tool uses text and facial recognition technology to scrub the web, helping investigators find underage sex-trafficking victims. Spotlight has been used by law enforcement on nearly 40,000 cases in North America, helping investigators find more than 9,000 children and 10,000 traffickers.

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  • Homes to Heal Trafficked Children

    June 19, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Miami, Florida

    Miami is home to a special type of child welfare program called CHANCE (Citrus Helping Adolescents Negatively Impacted by Commercial Exploitation) that is designed specifically for youth in foster care that have been trafficked. CHANCE has an intensive curriculum that educates foster parents and clinicians about child sex trafficking and child trauma, and families are only allowed to take in one child at a time so that they are prepared for the child's unique health needs. Studies done on the program have found that the youth have significant improvement in many emotional and mental categories.

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