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  • Staying Sober After Treatment Ends

    February 09, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Fall River, Massachusetts

    Increasingly, continuing care for addicts in recovery means more than handing them a list of A.A. meetings when they leave rehab, as caretakers develop and learn to use apps and video chat to check in on their patients.

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  • After the floods: York and Nijmegen - a tale of two cities

    February 09, 2016 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, York

    After record-breaking rainfall and flooding, the city of York was at a loss for relief and reconstruction ideas. They turned to the Dutch city of Nijmegen, which had experienced similar flooding and found a solution in building a relief channel.

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  • Activismo punk en Indonesia

    February 09, 2016 |

    El País |

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    Response Location: Indonesia

    En 2013, en Indonesia, unas 28 millones de personas vivían en situación de pobreza extrema. A la vez, 3,5 millones de niños y niñas estaban fuera de la escuela, según Unicef. Una fundación humanitaria, conformada por músicos, tatuadores y publicistas que dejaron atrás su rivalidad, decidió aportar un porcentaje de sus ingresos para reducir los altos niveles de necesidad y pobreza.

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  • São Paulo Is Betting Better Urban Planning Can Solve a Housing Crisis

    February 08, 2016 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: Brazil, São Paulo

    The Western Hemisphere’s biggest city has developed a model blueprint for progressive housing policy in developing countries, in large part by affirming squatters' rights and demanding a certain percentage of low-income housing in new developments.

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  • An unprecedented experiment in mass forgiveness

    February 08, 2016 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    In California, once a national innovator in draconian policies to get tough on crime, voters and lawmakers are now innovating in the opposite direction, adopting laws that have released tens of thousands of inmates and are preventing even more from going to prison in the first place.

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  • Police and the Public Bridge Gap on Stage

    February 05, 2016 |

    Wall Street Journal |

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    Response Location: United States, Bedford-Stuyvesant, New York

    An ensemble of New York Police Department officers and members of the public are participating in a theater program designed to bring together the opposite sides of the nationwide debate on interactions between police and minority communities.

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  • Estonia: Digital Society

    February 03, 2016 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Estonia

    Government services are easily accessible in Estonia in part because everything is online. A digital signature carries the same weight as a physical signature, and data is shared between offices allowing forms such as tax returns to be pre-filled for citizens. The country leapfrogged the rest of the world, investing in digital literacy and infrastructure in an effort to serve its small, spread-out population.

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  • Innovative 'HUB' model improves infant mortality and saves money: Saving the Smallest

    February 03, 2016 |

    Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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    Response Location: United States, Mansfield, Ohio

    The Pathways Community HUB model, born in Mansfield as way to improve pregnancy outcomes, is becoming a national model. Its success is in large part due to its rewarding only caretakers whose patients achieve certain health milestones.

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  • Jobs for the Homeless

    February 02, 2016 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Albuquerque, New Mexico

    An Albuquerque program pays panhandlers to clean up city trash—and gets them needed help, pairing city services with a jobs program.

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  • Hospitals Focus on Doing No Harm

    February 02, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Orlando, Florida

    Hospitals across the United States are trying, in systematic ways, to reduce the risk of infection and other preventable dangers that can leave patients in worse shape after their stay. Some of the approaches include limiting entrances and exits during surgeries and administering antibiotics in a timely manner.

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