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In Rural Alaska, A Powerful Documentary Flips the Script for Child Care Funding

Anne Vilen

March 19, 2025 |

The Daily Yonder |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Kotzebue, Alaska

Frustrated by the lack of childcare funding and access, one woman created a documentary showcasing the issue. It received widespread attention throughout the state, leading to a state representative sponsoring a $7 million bill to increase childcare funding and provider wages and to expand access to subsidies for middle-income families. It also led the governor to create the Alaska Child Care Task Force to oversee state licensing regulations to make the process of becoming a licensed childcare provider and opening a facility more accessible.

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LALIF Sparking a New Dawn of Hope For Neglected Deaf Blind

Blessing Oladunjoye

March 18, 2025 |

BONews |

Video |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Nigeria

Lionheart Ability Leaders International Foundation (LALIF) uses a comprehensive training program to empower parents, teachers and those living with vision and hearing impairment. Their programming teaches educators how to understand tactile sign language, and also empowers parents on how best to support their children living with disabilities.

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Successful Birmingham program faces funding gap despite reduction in youth crime

Alaina Bookman

March 13, 2025 |

AL.com (Alabama Media Group) |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Birmingham, Alabama

RESTORE is a juvenile re-entry program offering supportive programming and guidance to intervene in cycles of crime and help more youth avoid the juvenile system and learn to make more positive choices. Already this year, RESTORE has served 344 young people through their workshops. Since launching in 2023, the program has helped 19 people graduate with their high school diploma, GED or a certification.

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Birmingham hospital program offers hope amid homicide crisis: How it works

Alaina Bookman

March 12, 2025 |

AL.com (Alabama Media Group) |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham’s Offender Alumni Association is a group of violence intervention specialists that check in with gun violence patients at the hospital to offer mental health services and case management to prevent reinjury and retaliatory violence. Since launching, the group has taken on 144 clients, providing wrap-around services to victims and their families, including mentoring, emergency relocation and funds for medicine, groceries, rent and utilities.

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More parents are giving up their kids, but this Virginia model could be a solution

Jenna Zibton

February 13, 2025 |

WSLS-TV |

Multi-Media |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Fairfax, Virginia

Case managers at the Fairfax County Department of Family Services is working to help families avoid filing and following through with relief of custody requests, instead providing therapy, in-home counseling, connection to treatment facilities and other resources that help prevent youth from entering the foster care system.

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Finding family services is hard. How South LA built a one-stop shop for people with young kids

Stefanie Ritoper

December 04, 2024 |

LAist |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

Partners for Children South L.A. brings together more than 40 organizations that work with families in need to make it easier for parents to get the services they’re seeking without having to go to multiple different providers before getting help. Over the past 10 years, the collaboration has served more than 10,000 families.

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A mission to deliver hope to Bayelsa's most vulnerable populations

Clinton Attah

December 04, 2024 |

Prime Progress |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Bayelsa

Enibo Albert Charity Foundation's multi-faceted approach to humanitarian services aims to empower vulnerable populations in Bayelsa by addressing their immediate needs, promoting education, and fostering community development, all while advocating for a healthier environment.

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Michigan's most vulnerable rescued by kinship caregivers

Hayley Harding, Sarah Rahal

November 10, 2024 |

The Detroit News |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

Various programs and organizations, like Grandparents Raising Grandchildren and Grandparents Parenting Again, are helping seniors navigate and understand kinship care, providing them with guidance and support to transition to caring for loved ones.

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An organisation deploys strategic storytelling to transform lives in rural Nigeria

Praise Usoro

November 05, 2024 |

Prime Progress |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Calabar, Cross River

The Bonnicare Foundation garners support and funding for people in need of education, healthcare and economic empowerment through visual storytelling on social media. This approach helps humanize the challenges people are facing, encouraging those with the means to donate. With the funding they’ve received through social media donations, the Bonnicare Foundation has helped pay the school fees for more than 1,000 primary and secondary school students in rural areas.

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Is the blind removal model in child welfare scalable? It's complicated

Elizabeth Moss

October 31, 2024 |

AfroLA |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States

Blind removal programs involve the redaction of race and class identifiers from a child welfare casefiles. Although once believed to be a scalable solution, in L.A. and beyond, a look a new data shows they aren't viable long term.

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