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  • Pathways to Peace: Healing Hurt People's small victories in Philly may translate to Cleveland

    June 07, 2016 |

    Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Victims of violence that end up in the emergency room can return within two years with more injuries because of retaliation efforts. Philadelphia’s Healing Hurt People is a hospital-based violence intervention program that assists individuals who need medical care and mental health services. The hospital and social work collaboration helps reduce emergency room costs.

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  • In Philadelphia, healing trauma is intense, difficult work: Pathways to Peace

    June 07, 2016 |

    Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Healing trauma has never been an easy process but programs like Healing Hurt People help to promote recovery in traumatized, angry young men. This program, in partnership with local medical services, aims to provide therapy in place of violence, which would only cause more trauma down the road. Those who stick with the program have found great success in overcoming their pasts.

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  • Lesotho Taps Taxi Drivers to Fight HIV With Male Circumcision

    June 06, 2016 |

    Newsweek |

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    Response Location: Lesotho, Maseru

    Jhpiego, a US nonprofit, trains and funds local taxi drivers in Lesotho to educate their passengers about male circumcision which can be instrumental in preventing HIV.

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  • What Cleveland can gain from New Haven's fight against gangs: Pathways to Peace

    June 06, 2016 |

    Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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    Response Location: United States, New Haven, Connecticut

    In New Haven community leaders and law enforcement joined hands to diminish gang violence. They created Project Longevity, and the research shows the program is successful. Gang shootings in the city have fallen from eight a month, to three.

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  • Project Longevity's lessons on gangs offer insights for Cleveland: Pathways to Peace

    June 06, 2016 |

    Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

    Photojournalism |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, New Haven, Connecticut

    New Haven's Project Longevity has measurably reduced gang violence through an approach brings law enforcement, social service groups, and community leaders together to offer teenagers and young men incentives to stop the violence, and a way out for those who need help. It's a model that may provide a solution for other cities facing gang violence.

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  • Most School Districts Struggle to Help Refugees Adapt. How Did Anchorage Figure It Out?

    June 05, 2016 |

    Slate |

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    Response Location: United States, Anchorage, Alaska

    Anchorage schools employ a hybrid approach to integrating refugees—neither cordoning them off fully from the school at large, nor dropping them fully into the general student population. The city's Newcomers' Center plays an integral role in giving refugees a sense of community.

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  • Job center inside House of Corrections gives inmates new opportunities

    June 05, 2016 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    Job training is an invaluable resource to prisoners who may not have any other resources for such a thing. A new job center, established with a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Labor, aims to assist 1,000 Milwaukee County offenders over two years.

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  • 'Pathways to Peace' explores solutions to youth violence

    June 05, 2016 |

    Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    Cleveland is responding to its gun violence epidemic with a combination of effective policing, social service agencies, and former offenders deployed to break cycles of violence in their communities.

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  • Detroit Is Turning Vacant Lots Into Sponges for Stormwater

    June 04, 2016 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    When it comes to green infrastructure, Detroit's got plenty of parcels to work with. A look at their new plans to turn unused land into stormwater sponges.

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  • Reading, writing and results in Binghamton classrooms

    June 04, 2016 |

    Press & Sun-Bulletin |

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    Response Location: United States, Binghamton, New York

    Literacy rates can be a problem, especially in low-income school districts. Amid a years-in-the-making revision of literacy instruction, the Binghamton school district is seeing a payoff.

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