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The silent surge: How an innovative program at Cleveland Clinic is reaching kids in mental health emergencies — before it's too late

Anika Nayak

September 12, 2025 |

The Land |

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Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

The Cleveland Clinic’s pediatric emergency room uses iPads loaded with peer-to-peer educational mental health videos from youth who have gone through the emergency room visit and inpatient admission process to help support other young people as they sit in the waiting room. The videos help reduce fear and anxiety, and research shows that peer support for people in crisis can also reduce re-hospitalization rates and promote recovery.

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Parents often struggle to find help for troubled youngsters — but this Maryland program can help

Katelynn Winebrenner

May 05, 2025 |

Capital News Service Maryland |

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Response Location: United States, Hagerstown, Maryland

The Co-Location Internship Program between Salisbury University and Maryland’s child psychiatry access program places social work graduate students in pediatric offices to connect youth and their families with behavioral and mental health care for free. Since the program began in 2012, interns have conducted 12,160 family visits, with a 98.3% satisfaction rate.

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Hospital care at home, for kids

Michelle Crouch, Charlotte Ledger

April 28, 2025 |

North Carolina Health News |

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Response Location: United States, Charlotte, North Carolina

Atrium Health’s pediatric hospital-at-home program allows patients to recover from the comfort of their own homes, rather than a hospital bed, combining visits from paramedics and virtual check-ins with doctors and nurses to provide continuous hospital-like care. 142 health systems in 39 states have been approved to provide home-hospital care, and some studies show patients receiving care at home have better health outcomes than those in hospitals.

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Healing Smiles: This Nonprofit is Combating Stigma, Improving Access to Cleft Care in Kano

Prosper Ishaya

February 27, 2025 |

Social Voices |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

The Grassroots Smile Initiative provides complimentary cleft lip surgeries and associated care, including nutritional support, speech therapy and other treatments. Since 2005, the group has performed over 3,000 free surgeries, averaging about 150 to 200 patients each year.

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Support for paediatric HIV treatment in Taraba grows, yet impact remains limited

Yahuza Bawage

October 28, 2024 |

Social Voices |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Taraba State

The Elizabeth Glaser Paediatric AIDS Foundation, in partnership with the state government, is working to get adolescents living with HIV to adhere to antiretroviral therapy by providing free treatment and incentivizing regular medication use by fostering a sense of community among the youth. The group currently operates in 16 African countries and has successfully suppressed the viral load of over 80 youths.

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This city is hailed as a vaccination success. Can it be sustained?

Mike Stobbe

September 15, 2024 |

Associated Press |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Louisville, Kentucky

The Louisville school system is working to fill the vaccination gap among youth by establishing vaccine clinics at nearly all 160 schools, particularly those where immigrant students who are behind on their vaccinations are starting school. Since implementing these clinics, the vaccination rate during the last school year increased by 4%.

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How Kano Childhood Cancer Foundation is Supporting Cancer Survivors: tackling Childhood Cancer in Kano

Mariya Shuaibu Suleiman

August 09, 2024 |

Women Radio 91.7 |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

The Kano Childhood Cancer Foundation helps provide care, counseling and financial support to families with children suffering from cancer. The Foundation helps pay for treatment like chemotherapy and other medications and currently has 24 patients in their care.

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How Community Health Volunteers are Saving Lives in Nairobi's Informal Settlements Using Technology

Joyce Chimbi

June 06, 2024 |

Talk Africa |

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Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

The Beyond Zero Clinic addresses child mortality rates by training and equipping community health promoters (CHPs) with smartphones connected to the Community Health Information System to curb preventable deaths by ensuring children get vaccinated and monitoring disease spread in real-time to ensure children receive timely medical care. During Kenya's 2023 cholera outbreak, CHPs using the digital platform reached 99.2% of the population for vaccination, containing what could have been a widespread epidemic.

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Through Melodies and Narratives: A Children's Book is Improving Oral Hygiene in Rural Nigeria

Chinonso Kenneth

May 27, 2024 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Ekiti

The Dental Care Foundation uses “edutainment,” a combination of education and entertainment, to enhance oral hygiene knowledge, attitudes and practices among children from low and middle-income families. The Foundation’s educational book, “The Girl Who Found Her Smile,” has had about 10,000 copies distributed to rural communities in several countries.

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How Vaccine is Boosting Efforts to Eliminate Malaria among African Children

Sharon Atieno

May 16, 2024 |

Science Africa |

Multi-Media |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Kenya

The world’s first malaria vaccine was introduced in a pilot program in 2019 and found to reduce severe cases of malaria by 22%. Since then, the vaccine has been rolled out to several regions and has administered more than 1.8 million doses throughout the country, which has contributed to reducing prevalence rates from 27% in 2015, to 3.6% today.

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