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  • Riding Along With Milwaukee's Counselors For Traumatized Youths

    February 09, 2017 |

    Buzzfeed |

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    Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    Police actions at a crime scene often exacerbate the victim’s trauma and trigger a person with mental illness who is going through a crisis. The Trauma-Informed Response Team in Milwaukee, is part of a national trend to train police officers in crisis intervention so they can identify signs of mental illness, and efficiently and safely get someone in crisis into the care of a mental health professional.

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  • Reclaiming native ground: Can Louisiana's tribes restore their traditional diets as waters rise?

    February 09, 2017 |

    Food and Environment Reporting Network |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Louisiana

    Tribal areas in Louisiana are suffering from massive land loss due to flooding, which has taken away a lot of food sources and livelihood. In response, the First People's Conservation Council has been created, which includes tribe members, government representatives and nonprofit representatives in order to develop solutions.

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  • How to Make Public Transportation Safer for Women

    February 08, 2017 |

    How We Get to Next |

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    Response Location: United States

    From gender-segregated buses in Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro, to more lighting and staff on Washington, D.C.’s metro system, cities around the world are taking steps to make public transportation safer for women. Some of these methods are contested – especially ones that place the responsibility on women or don’t take into account transgender and genderqueer individuals. Yet, there is a growing body of research suggesting that responding to this problem requires two key elements: a larger, cultural shift regarding harassment and listening to women when they describe what they need.

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  • Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait proposes jobs for homeless in State of the City

    February 08, 2017 |

    Orange County Register |

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    Response Location: United States, Anaheim

    In Anaheim, a newly announced push for homeless services and initiatives that gives people who are homeless the opportunity to work a day job with the City. The idea is modeled off Albuquerque's successful approach, which includes a van that picks up people interested in working for a day for a wage and lunch, and provides a night's stay at an emergency shelter.

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  • Preparing Young Americans for a Complex World

    February 08, 2017 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    In a globalized world, increased focus has been put on expanding the frequently under-studied global competency component of American Student's education. By integrating lessons on this type of global thinking and knowledge into common courses, educators across the country are attempting to remedy this lack of global competency.

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  • Rehab for mothers - and their children - allows them to recover together

    February 08, 2017 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    For women in traditional rehab centres, choosing treatment means leaving their children behind. Family House NOW (New Options for Women), is a residential treatment center in Philadelphia that allows women to live with their children, benefitting both the women and the children.

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  • The campaign behind the release of the "Mandela of Latin America"

    February 07, 2017 |

    TRT World |

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    Response Location: United States

    Oscar López Rivera was a political prisoner for 35 years, 12 of which were in solitary confinement, for his political activism wanting Puerto Rico to be independent of the USA.An international campaign successfully lobbied Obama to commute the sentence, a campaign which included the support of Desmond Tutu, Oscar's brother- Jose, the Puerto Rican community etc.

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  • Can the Graduation Approach Help to End Extreme Poverty?

    February 07, 2017 |

    Yale Insights |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh, Dhaka

    BRAC, the largest NGO in the world and one of the leaders in microfinance as an approach to combating poverty, discovered that despite its successes, microcredit did not always reach what are called the Ultra-Poor in effective, sustainable ways. So they formed partnerships and launched a new, comprehensive initiative that involves consumption support, technical and financial literacy training, and asset management to create a pathway to prosperity called the "graduation approach."

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  • To create meaningful change, apparel brands need to pursue sustainability at the industry level

    February 06, 2017 |

    Ensia |

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    Response Location: United States

    In the past, apparel companies were not given financial rewards for acting sustainably, and therefore, on the whole, saw no reason to encourage customers to do so. But now, by investing in industry-level research and developments to clue consumers into their sustainable behaviors, the Sustainable Apparel Coalition is working to change this. The Coalition provides clothing store customers with the sustainability equivalent of a nutrition label, hoping to both encourage sustainable consumption from consumers, and incentivizing environmentally-friendly practices for producers.

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  • On Patrol With Chicago's Last Violence Interrupters

    February 06, 2017 |

    The Trace |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Chicago’s Cure Violence program, which has been around for close to 20 years, has closed all but one of its sites. The program employs Violence Interrupters, who work in neighborhoods to help stop violent conflict. As hopeful and successful as its creation was, it has run into cooperative issues with Chicago police and has seen a drastic cut in funding in the last five years.

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