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  • Rio Doce grassroots response arises out of Fundão mining disaster

    June 08, 2016 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Baixo Guandu

    More than six months after a mining tailings dam broke in Brazil, killing 19 people and polluting the 530-mile length of the Rio Doce, grassroots groups have arisen to take action and seek justice.

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  • CMHA police build relationships as they help to solve problems

    June 08, 2016 |

    Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    The Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority's police force has transformed its culture using a police assistance referral program that focuses on getting people the help they need first rather than arresting them. It's a way to address the underlying issues that prompt an incident by partnering with social workers and nonprofits to help police to look at themselves as problem solvers. The majority of referrals for services focus on violence committed against or in front of children and this is one way to try and address trauma before it wreaks devastation on young lives.

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  • Henley-Young Must Release Kids After 21 Days; Some Disappearing?

    June 08, 2016 |

    Jackson Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Jackson, Mississippi

    A consent decree ensures juveniles are not held more than 21 days in a Jackson, Miss., facility that was the subject of a lawsuit over the number of children it held and the conditions they faced. But opponents, including a youth court judge, say this is not solving the underlying problems facing the young offenders and even the plaintiffs in the suit says the larger issue is the approach to juvenile justice in the state.

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  • How One Brooklyn Charter School Integrates With Intention

    June 08, 2016 |

    WNYC |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Fort Greene, New York

    A school in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, has been specifically engineered to reflect the true diversity of NYC. It's one of the only schools in the district that does so: 39% white, 33% black, 20% combined Hispanic and Asian, and 8% "other."

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  • Colonialism Nearly Wiped Out the Hawaiian Language. These Public Schools Are Bringing It Back.

    June 08, 2016 |

    Slate |

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    Response Location: United States, Hilo, Hawaii

    With the emphasis on teaching English in American public schools, many non-English speaking students can lose the language of their family’s heritage. Hawaii has “language-immersion schools” that teaches children the native Hawaiian language until about fifth grade and then English is introduced. While the schools have preserved the native tongue and its cultural values, there are still challenges for students who face competition in English-dominated secondary education and the job market.

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  • Ways to improve interactions between police and kids: Pathways to Peace

    June 08, 2016 |

    Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    Police can work better with young people if they understand more about how their brains work. Young people can deal better with police if they understand more about their jobs, and the law. New training and techniques aim to improve those relationships. Some are already being used in Cleveland, and others are on the way.

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  • Pathways to Peace: Philadelphia's Healing Hurt People helps violence victims recover

    June 07, 2016 |

    Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    The Healing Hurt People program, or HHP, is an ER-based violence intervention program that works on the public health-based notion that violence - like other diseases that spread - can be prevented. It targets services to those at highest risk, patients like those in Philadelphia, who are being treated for violent injuries in the city's emergency rooms. Unlike other programs, it recognizes and attempts to heal the underlying emotional trauma that results from, and often predates, violent injury.

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  • If Universities Made This Course a Pre-Requisite, Campuses Would Be Safer for Female Students

    June 07, 2016 |

    NationSwell |

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    Response Location: United States, Palo Alto, California

    Rapes at college campuses occur at significant rates, and many proposed fixes are not working. Campus self-defense classes could potentially help women, such as at Stanford where Daly Montgomery (a student) created a self-defense class called "Protecting Your Bubble" to teach women how to defend themselves, hear from victims, and learn that it is ok to take action to protect yourself.

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  • Pathways to Peace: In Philadelphia, a dealer becomes a healer

    June 07, 2016 |

    Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Healing Hurt People (HHP), the program that helped save his life, now employs men like Jermaine McCorey - men who used to be a part of a violent life on the streets of Philadelphia - to reach out to boys and young men in the emergency department and help get them through empathy and personalized support. HHP's goal is to help young people recognize the role trauma has played in shaping their lives, to respect and honor their experience and to help them avoid fueling the cycle of violence.

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  • The Man Who Can Map the Chemicals All Over Your Body

    June 07, 2016 |

    Scientific American |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

    One scientist, dared to take a risk, and go where no one else had: mass-spectrometry imaging of microbes and chemicals. These images tell scientists how microbes communicate with each other, the environment, and humans. The benefits of this new technology could have far reaching benefits.

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