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  • Only City In California To Solve Veteran Homelessness Is On A Mission To Go Bigger

    May 10, 2018 |

    KPBS Public Media |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Riverside, California

    Riverside is the only city in California to solve veteran homelessness. The approach, called Housing First, works by placing vets into subsidized housing and then proceeding with support services like finding employment or rehabilitating from drugs/alcohol dependence. Now that Riverside has housed all of its 89 homeless vets, it is moving on to apply the same approach to their 400 chronically homeless citizens.

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  • We really do have a solution to the opioid epidemic — and one state is showing it works

    May 10, 2018 |

    Vox |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Richmond, Virginia

    In order to tackle opioid addiction, the state of Virginia found a way to make drug treatment accessible to people with medicaid by boosting “reimbursement rates to addiction treatment providers.” Historically, drug treatment hasn’t been covered by health insurance. Virginia is changing that. Already, “the percent of Medicaid members with an opioid use disorder who received treatment went up by 29 percent from April to December 2017 compared to the same period the previous year.”

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  • Special delivery: Text messages bring courses to disconnected students

    May 09, 2018 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Yemen

    A group of college students has developed a text-message based entrepreneurship course designed for students in locations where "phones are common, but internet access is not," including in Yemen. The founders hope that their curriculum will help to close the persistent "social-capital gap" in business education.

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  • Chau manicomios: Cómo Río Negro se convirtió en un modelo mundial con su programa de salud mental

    May 09, 2018 |

    Red/Acción |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Argentina

    En la provincia argentina de Río Negro, en vez de ser institucionalizadas en establecimientos psiquiátricos, las personas afectadas con trastornos mentales se atienden en los hospitales generales, que cuentan con guardias de salud mental y profesionales capacitados en el tema. Este modelo se ha convertido en una referencia a nivel mundial, ya que representa una transición de un sistema basado en el encierro en hospitales psiquiátricos a otro basado en el paradigma de la salud mental comunitaria, en el que se crean diversos dispositivos para lograr que las personas puedan reinsertarse en la sociedad.

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  • The Importance of Beauty in Affordable Housing

    May 09, 2018 |

    Next City |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Changes in zoning laws as well as the promotion of guiding principles and successful case studies has led to well designed, environmentally efficient, and beautiful supportive housing. Well-designed housing has lessened stigmas and provided residents with a sense of dignity about where they live.

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  • What Nairobi hotel businesses can learn from South Africa's water crisis

    May 09, 2018 |

    The Standard |

    Text |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

    With water scarcity a very real concept in South Africa, the hotels in the country may be able to learn how to survive by looking to Nairobi's various water conservation methods.

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  • The Art World Has No Shortage of Legal Disputes. A New Court Wants to Help

    May 09, 2018 |

    Artnet |

    Text |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Netherlands, The Hague

    A new international court staffed by experts in art law has been developed to hear art arbitration cases. Through this court, cases will be judged by people with a strong knowledge of specialized law resulting in more appropriate rulings and expedited trial times.

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  • The shopping centre where the currency is hope

    May 09, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United Kingdom, Newcastle-under-Lyme

    York Place is one of a growing number of shopping centers that are closing down as trends like online retail and changing consumer habits mean fewer people going to shopping malls. But York Place is doing things differently: the shopping center’s main tenant is the YMCA, which sells crafts by local artists. The local cafe is a social enterprise, and residents can earn “CounterCoins,” essentially rewards points, for volunteering. A UK-based professor said, “It’s no ordinary shopping center. It’s a laboratory.”

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  • LACMA and Arizona State University Team Up for a New Grad Program Aimed at Diversifying Museum Leadership

    May 09, 2018 |

    Artnet |

    Text |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Arizona State University have teamed up to provide graduate students with a scholarship, an opportunity to work at LACMA, and a salary for that work. Furthermore, the program is aimed at people of color and has a goal of helping to diversify the curatorial profession.

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  • Dogs help students beyond play

    May 09, 2018 |

    KMGH-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    In one Colorado classroom, the teacher's pet, a dog named Buster, is teaching students lessons about patience, responsibility, and confidence.

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