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  • West Hartford Schools Growing Fresh Produce In Their Own Cafeterias

    October 21, 2019 |

    Hartford Courant |

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    Response Location: United States, West Hartford, Connecticut

    Elementary school students in West Hartford, Connecticut are growing fresh produce for their school lunches and in the process learning about healthy eating, energy impact, and food waste. "We’re not telling them to make better choices, but we’re giving them agency to make better choices," a parent who drove the initiative said.

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  • 'The Hardest Part Was Finding a Job'

    October 21, 2019 |

    Ms. Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, McLoud, Oklahoma

    Oklahoma’s Mabel Bassett Correctional Center is seeing its first graduating class of women coders. A nonprofit called The Last Mile offers training programs for incarcerated individuals with the goal of equipping them with timely job skills upon re-entry. Those that are a part of the program participate in 40 hours of class per week for a year, learning coding programs like CSS, HTML, and Bootstrap.

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  • Nearly 19,000 youth in King County are neither working nor in school. How one Seattle nonprofit is changing that.

    October 20, 2019 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Renton, Washington

    A nonprofit in Seattle is identifying youth between the ages of 16 to 24 who are out of school and work and reconnecting them with the public education system. Two-thirds of students enrolled in the program have gone on to pursue college.

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  • When Resilience Starts With the City's Most Vulnerable Youth

    October 18, 2019 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Tallahassee, Florida

    Tallahassee is coordinating its youth development, violence prevention and climate adaptation efforts to help out-of-work and out-of-school youth earn their GED and secure jobs helping to shape the city's climate resilience plan. One of the ways the program works is by enrolling participants in apprenticeships within local public works departments and puts them on track to get the required licensing for employment. So far, 640 teens and young adults have participated in the program.

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  • These kids look out for one another

    October 18, 2019 |

    The Laconia Daily Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Tilton, New Hampshire

    High school students in Tilton, New Hampshire are learning how to be peer counselors as part of a program that aims to destigimatize the notion of seeking help for mental health concerns. The program, which has been implemented across the U.S. and in several other countries, has been shown to decrease a person's risk of suicide and is now regarded as "a mental-health best practice."

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  • Being Outside Boosts Your Health, but not Everyone Has Ample Access to Nature

    October 18, 2019 |

    Bitterroot |

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    Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

    Studies have routinely shown that spending time outdoors is good for health, so programs are being implemented in the United States in order to increase children's access to getting outside. From California's Outdoor Outreach which aims to help low-income students to the Every Kid Outdoors Act initiated by Congress which eliminates fees for national park passes for fourth graders, these initiatives not only get kids outside, but also teach them social skills.

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  • Mental health a daily lesson in schools

    October 17, 2019 |

    The Laconia Daily Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Franklin, New Hampshire

    A middle school in New Hampshire has piloted a program that focuses on dividing the school into different wings and offering classes on "mental wellness, conflict resolution, and healthy ways to communicate" with the goal of better addressing the emotional wellbeing of students. The outcomes have been promising thus far, with students reporting improved effects on their mental health.

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  • Ypsi-based program partners with formerly incarcerated writers to help youth heal through creativity

    October 16, 2019 |

    Concentrate |

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    Response Location: United States, Ypsilanti, Michigan

    Telling It, a Ypsilanti, Michigan based organization, uses creative writing, spoken word, and other forms of self-expression as a method of healing and mental health care for area youth. It hires people with similar life experiences and backgrounds as teachers and mentors, so that the young participants feel safe and welcome to share their experiences and feel understood. The program started as a literacy program but has since placed more emphasis on healing, even having social workers on its staff.

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  • Real food challenge: Auburn University, unlike peers, requires 20% local source of dining food

    October 16, 2019 |

    The Montgomery Advertiser |

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    Response Location: United States, Auburn, Alabama

    Several colleges in the U.S. use a third-party corporation to manage their dining services, but Auburn University's contract is unique in that it specifies 20 percent of all food must be locally sourced. This partnership was originally born out of a student group that wanted the land-grant university to embrace its agriculture roots by including the community farming industry.

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  • Amador County builds community college pipeline for mental health workers

    October 15, 2019 |

    CalMatters |

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    Response Location: United States, Amador County, California

    To increase the number of mental health professionals in Amador County, California, the county has created an online program that culminates in a certificate or associate degree in human services. Preference to this small program is offered first to those that have personal experience with mental health issues, which adds an element of peer support to their skillset.

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