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  • Why One City is Prioritizing Financial Empowerment

    December 06, 2019 |

    Route Fifty |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Paul, Minnesota

    To tackle the inequality and lack of opportunity facing many of its historically marginalized communities, St. Paul, Minnesota, recently opened an Office of Financial Empowerment. The office will create a city-wide strategy to address ways to improve the financial health of citizens, including an assessment of the ways that government fines and fees might actually work against residents. The city expects successes similar to an effort to eliminate all library fees, which helped increase traffic to low-income libraries and allowed those with previously suspended library cards to check out books again.

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  • Philly wants to bring back a version of an old strategy to fight gun violence. Specifics are pending.

    December 06, 2019 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Starting in 2013, Philadelphia's focused deterrence program was credited with 35% fewer shootings in its targeted neighborhoods. The program featured "call-ins" where law-enforcement agencies would threaten potentially violent people with prosecution. On the flip side, they could receive services that help them establish a different lifestyle. As the program shifted away from the services "carrots," and was left only with the "stick," the program foundered. In 2019, the city sought to revive it as a "group violence intervention" program with a greater emphasis on services over law enforcement.

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  • Counseling minus the counselor

    December 06, 2019 |

    The Beacon Today |

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    Response Location: United States, Florida

    Online counseling websites that utilize the practice of cognitive behavioral therapy are helping teenagers and young adults access services they may need during challenging times. Psychologists do caution that these aren't replacements for face-to-face therapy, but that they do help when in-person options are not available or feasible.

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  • Can basketball reduce gun violence? It did in Richmond, Virginia.

    December 06, 2019 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Richmond, Virginia

    RVA League For Safer Streets uses a basketball league as "bait" to change young men's lives by teaching critical thinking and better ways to resolve conflicts. The Richmond, Virginia, program was co-founded in prison by a former drug dealer convicted of murder who learned the methods of cognitive behavioral therapy behind bars. Paroled after 23 years, he began counseling youth with an approach that police say contributed to a significant drop in Richmond's gang violence and other crime.

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  • Can a diverse neighborhood now integrate its schools? In Mount Airy, it's happening.

    December 06, 2019 |

    The Notebook |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    A diverse neighborhood in Philadelphia is working to make its local public schools reflect the same diversity. By working with community partners and ensuring black and white parent voices both help shape the school, the community is trying to find a balance between improving the local resource and preventing any displacement of the longstanding school population. The model is showing early promise.

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  • Prosecution Declined

    December 05, 2019 |

    Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting |

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    Response Location: United States, Louisville, Kentucky

    The way in which Kentucky’s Louisville Metro Police Department handles rape cases has come into question. The department’s low level of cases being brought to trial is because of the extra step police officers take: checking with prosecutors to see if they’ll take the case to court. If prosecutors won’t, the police don’t make arrests. The policy is justified as victim-centered. But experts say this, combined with other problematic practices by the LMPD, can leave survivors feeling as though they aren’t believed and alone with their trauma.

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  • 'We've become like a family': innovative groups help refugees settle in US cities

    December 05, 2019 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    With a decrease in government aid for refugee resettlement programs in recent years, nonprofits and other groups have stepped up to fill the gap. In Cleveland, Refugee Response offers in-home tutoring, a program for high school students, and work opportunities on an urban farm.

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  • This unique program is helping people who care for their loved ones with dementia and more

    December 05, 2019 |

    Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    A Chicago-based program called Caring Together, Living Better is aiming to increase support to family members acting as caregivers for the elderly in their lives by providing resources directly in their churches. Focused primarily on minority communities, this creative collaboration uses trained volunteers to provide resources to those in attendance.

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  • Tunisia launches a state-sponsored sex-education program, a rarity in the Arab world

    December 05, 2019 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: Tunisia

    Tunisia is rolling out a biological and religious-based sex education program in elementary and middle schools. It is the first state-sponsored curriculum of its kind in an Arab nation.

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  • How one Ontario hospital persuades loved ones of nearly all suitable deceased donors to donate patients' organs

    December 05, 2019 |

    The Globe and Mail |

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    Response Location: Canada, Sudbury, Ontario

    In recent years, there has been a decrease in Canadian organ donors but a comprehensive effort by an Ontario hospital is changing that narrative. From increased specialized training for nurses to adding a donation coordinator to morning rounds, Sudbury’s Health Sciences North has become a model for increasing donor rates.

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