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  • How Grassroots Sports Clubs are Tackling Mental Health

    September 19, 2023 |

    Men's Health |

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    Response Location: England, London

    Minds United Football Club hosts weekly sessions for people to join together and play football, while also addressing their mental health and well-being. Minds United, and similar sports clubs, aim to create a “we-agency,” providing people with a sense of being part of something bigger than themselves that allows them to feel empowered and supported. Sports groups like Minds United foster community among people who may be experiencing loneliness or mental health issues and are in need of a healthy outlet, particularly for men who face significant mental health stigma.

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  • Are Oakland community ambassadors making a difference?

    September 19, 2023 |

    The Oaklandside |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    In response to public safety concerns and understaffed police departments, community ambassadors are working to improve public safety by building relationships with local business owners and residents, mitigating conflict without force or violence, providing support to people in crisis and keeping the city clean. Since community ambassadors began patrolling the area, local business owners have reported noticing fewer robberies and crime in general.

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  • Urgent Mental Health Care

    September 19, 2023 |

    Encore Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

    The Behavioral Health Urgent Care and Access Center at Integrated Services of Kalamazoo (ISK) works with local law enforcement to assist those experiencing mental health crises and divert them from having to visit emergency rooms or face incarceration. The ISK Center offers same-day treatment for substance abuse as well as mental health care. In the Center’s first month, they received 19,619 calls for service from the Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s Department, 2% of which were flagged as behavioral health calls.

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  • The Backyard Farmers Who Grow Food With Fog

    September 18, 2023 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Peru

    El Movimiento Peruanos sin Agua is leading an initiative to install fog catchers in communities across Peru that lack access to water as they continue to face a drought. The nonprofit provides communities with a netted device, a network of tubes, and storage containers that they put together to harvest water from fog.

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  • As Chicago Punts on Apartment Safety, Denver Shows What's Possible

    September 18, 2023 |

    Illinois Answers Project |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    A new licensing system that registers landlords and requires safety checks is ensuring tenants have safe places to live that are up to code and meet basic safety standards like having working smoke detectors or being free of mold. So far about 4,000 single-unit rental properties have been inspected and signed off on as safe places to live and the city has issued 1,578 violations to buildings that don’t meet the safety criteria.

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  • Reducing Maternal Mortality in Nigeria: The SHI Response

    September 18, 2023 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Osun

    The Safer Hands Health Initiative (SHI) aims to reduce maternal mortality across the country by educating and empowering birth attendants, healthcare centers and pregnant women to use safe delivery practices. SHI partners with medical boards and area hospitals to provide free training for birth attendants and also provides sterile birthing kits to expectant mothers. So far, SHI has trained over 200 birth attendants and has distributed more than 10,000 birthing kits.

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  • 'Future' of voting unrealized: Few counties adopt vote centers and e-poll books

    September 15, 2023 |

    South Dakota Searchlight |

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    Response Location: United States, South Dakota

    For some counties in South Dakota, switching to centralized vote centers and electronic poll books helped increase turnout and cut the costs of running an election. However, for other counties the cost of implementing vote centers initially has been prohibitive, and not all vote centers have resulted in increased turnout.

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  • Alternate-Route Education Programs Target Mississippi's Teacher Shortage

    September 15, 2023 |

    Mississippi Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Mississippi

    Alternative licensure programs such as the Mississippi Teacher Corps allow people with a bachelor’s degree to earn a teaching license in the classroom through a combination of hands-on experience, coursework, and mentorship. Since its founding in 1989, the corps has placed more than 600 teachers in districts designated as “critical-shortage areas.”

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  • Why Iowa farmers are turning to irrigation during drought. And why some are not.

    September 15, 2023 |

    The Gazette |

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    Response Location: United States, Iowa

    Farmers in Iowa are slowly turning to irrigation systems instead of relying solely on rain to combat more frequent droughts.

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  • Social Business Profile: Saving 9 – the first aid pioneers in Pakistan

    September 15, 2023 |

    Pioneers Post |

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    Response Location: Pakistan, Pind Begwal

    Saving 9 bridges the gaps between rural areas and emergency medical care by providing essential training to locals, transforming them into medical personnel. Saving 9 also has an ambulance that connects rural villages to medical facilities in the capital city and also offers a female-led ambulance service to provide culturally sensitive care to women in more conservative, rural communities. Since forming in 2017, Saving 9 has saved more than 900 lives.

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