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  • Muslim spiritual care providers improve outcomes at HCMC

    July 17, 2024 |

    Sahan Journal |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    In partnership with Open Path Resource, Hennepin Healthcare started integrating spiritual care into the medical care plan for Muslim patients to address stigma and build trust with medical professionals. The addition of spiritual care has had a significant impact on the hospital’s psychiatry department, reducing readmission rates from 24% in 2019, to 9% in 2023.

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  • Screening program for rural Colorado students aims to catch dyslexia early

    July 16, 2024 |

    Chalkbeat Colorado |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    EarlyBird, a dyslexia screening program run by the South Central Board of Cooperative Educational Services, screened about 200 children for signs of dyslexia last year to connect them with extra help in the classroom. The program is already proving to be effective in the school districts participating in it and it’s set to expand to more schools during the 2024-2025-school year.

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  • Chicago's "People's Cooling Army" Is Giving Tenants Free Air Conditioners

    July 16, 2024 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    A group of volunteers in Chicago called the People’s Cooling Army repairs air conditioning units and installs them for free for low-income tenants, as the city continues to experience extreme heat.

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  • Damascus Road: Drug court changing lives, saving taxpayers 'boatload of money'

    July 15, 2024 |

    Mississippi Today |

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    Response Location: United States, Columbia, Mississippi

    Intervention Court provides programming and support to those struggling with addiction, connecting them to jobs, schooling and skills training to help them stay sober, re-enter society and stay out of jail. Nearly 11,000 people have graduated from one of the 42 drug courts throughout the state, and the courts average a recidivism rate of just 2.9% compared to the Mississippi Department of Corrections’ 35.4%.

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  • How Ecotourism Became an Unexpected Climate Solution in an At-Risk Guatemalan National Park

    July 15, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Guatemala

    The community living in Northern Guatemala’s Sierra del Lacandón National Park monitors the landscape for fires set by people looking to clear the forest illegally and is trained to prevent them from spreading. They’re focusing on ecotourism as an alternative way to earn a living.

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  • Can New York City Treat Its Food Scraps As More Than Trash?

    July 15, 2024 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    New York City’s Compost Project supports a network of community compost operations to reduce the waste sent to landfills. Each composter operates differently based on local conditions and needs. BK Rot, for example, employs local Black and Brown youth to collect organic scraps from homes and businesses and sells its compost.

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  • Four Decades to Build 70,000 Affordable Homes? Count That as a Success.

    July 13, 2024 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Mount Laurel, New Jersey

    In 1975, community members organized to urge the New Jersey state government to require cities to build their fair share of affordable multifamily housing. Dubbed “The Mount Laurel Doctrine,” the legislation, backed by local advocacy groups, has helped build 20,000 affordable housing units.

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  • Model Prisons: California's Push for Reform

    July 13, 2024 |

    CBS News |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    California is taking a new approach to reducing recidivism, known as The California Model, by providing people who are incarcerated with rehabilitative and educational programming.

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  • Hoboken's resiliency parks fight flooding but come with a big price tag

    July 12, 2024 |

    NJ Spotlight |

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    Response Location: United States, Hoboken, New Jersey

    Resiliency parks in Hoboken, New Jersey, look like typical playgrounds and basketball courts. Unlike the average park, they have discrete drains and sit on top of underground tanks that prevent flooding by holding millions of gallons of rainwater.

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  • In drought-prone Oaxaca, indigenous women are reviving ancient techniques to preserve water

    July 12, 2024 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Oaxaca

    The nonprofit Group to Promote Education and Sustainable Development teaches women in drought-ridden Indigenous communities across Mexico to use ancestral methods of irrigation and grow drought-resilient medicinal plants. The four-year training program also aims to address gender disparity through empowerment. Participants are encouraged to set up savings funds to increase their financial independence and attend group therapy sessions, among other activities.

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