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  • Police and the mentally ill: LAPD praised as a model for nation

    March 09, 2015 |

    Southern California Public Radio (KPCC) |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    LAPD's special team, the Mental Evaluation Unit, is teaming up police officers with mental health clinicians to better approach and address individuals suffering from a mental health crisis. Rather than sending them to jail - where resources are limited and a vicious cycle often results - the teams help ensure patients get the medical care they need, preventing brushes with the law and county millions of dollars and freed up thousands of hours of patrol time. Their model is being replicated nation-wide.

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  • Visiting Nurses, Helping Mothers on the Margins

    March 08, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Memphis, Tennessee

    Infant mortality rates in the US are higher than in Europe, especially for children living in poverty where they are more likely to suffer from abuse or neglect. The ACA funded Nurse-Family Partnership helps poor, first-time mothers learn to be parents and reduce avoidable infant deaths.

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  • The Excitement of Learning From Profit and Loss

    March 06, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    500,000 young people drop out of high school each year; they feel disengaged and uninspired; they fail to see how school is relevant in their lives. An educational program called Build makes it possible for low-income students, as part of their high school studies, to work in teams, conceiving, testing, and ultimately operating their own small businesses. In the process, they discover — often to their surprise — their potential to deal with unexpected problems, persist through failure, and create something that the world values.

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  • Inside the Revival of One of the Nation's Most Notorious Housing Projects

    March 06, 2015 |

    NationSwell |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    SHIELDS for Families works in one of the country's most notoriously dilapidated housing projects to revitalize the neighborhood by providing education, treatment and counseling services.

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  • Changing the world with new teaching?

    March 06, 2015 |

    San Diego Union-Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, La Jolla, California

    The idea of changing the world by teaching children how to get along in a classroom might sound broad, overly ambitious and even a little “touchy-feely” to skeptics or traditionalists who question whether schools are straying too far from their mission of education. Teachers who have used it in their classrooms, however, say the program is successful, and researchers who developed the curriculum at National University’s Sanford Education Center say results include improved grades and more time for teaching.

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  • Battling America's other PTSD crisis

    March 06, 2015 |

    Yahoo! News |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    A program in Philadelphia is pioneering new ways to treat the urban wounded. By seeing it as PTSD, and not pointing fingers, the city is using mental health tools to decrease violence and heal communities.

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  • Seattle's micro-housing booms offers an affordable alternative

    March 04, 2015 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    People need a place to sleep and eat, they need privacy, but they also need community. Seattle had a recent boom in micro-housing which offers a community living model where individuals have a personal tiny room and bathroom but share a kitchen.

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  • Reviving the Library in Greece: The Future Is Now for the Future Library Network and the INELI-Balkans Project

    March 04, 2015 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: Greece

    The Future Library Network has revitalized Greece’s community library system through collaboration, sharing of resources, and investment in technology for patrons to use such as recording studios, maker spaces, and robotics.

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  • A Vermont-Made App That Could Save Kids' Lives

    March 04, 2015 |

    Seven Days |

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    Response Location: United States, Burlington, Vermont

    Medical providers, tech experts and business professionals joined together to create in Vermont to create MEDSINC, a mobile app that helps people with no medical background to treat children with health risks. The "mobile intelligence software" provides a list of questions to help assess a child's health risks and, based on results, offers treatment suggestions. An early pilot shows, "the app's recommendations have corresponded to those of actual pediatricians 94 percent of the time."

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  • Judging Schools Based on Inspections—Not Test Scores

    March 04, 2015 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    In England, schools are evaluated by actual visits to schools by a group of professional educators, rather than simply by test scores.

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