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Grace Timi

February 17, 2025 |

Chicoco Radio Viral Times |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Umoulu, Rivers State

The Youth and Environmental Advocacy Center, in collaboration with NXT Grid, built a solar-powered mini-grid in a rural area to connect community members with power, some of whom were being connected for the first time. Community members donated to help fund the project, resulting in 200 of the 262 structures in the area receiving electricity.

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Bridging the gap: Mount Vernon launches Citizen Police Academy to enhance community understanding

Cheryl Splain

February 15, 2025 |

Knox Pages |

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Response Location: United States, Cincinnati, Ohio

Citizen Police Academies (CPAs) aim to provide insights into how police departments operate and the law enforcement profession, by offering educational programming that teaches community members about the procedures, responsibilities and laws that guide police officer behavior. Several Ohio cities have CPAs, including Cincinnati’s police department, which has graduated 1,600 citizens since 1995.

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A mental health clinician and police officer duo now respond to Wauwatosa crisis calls

Bridget Fogarty

February 13, 2025 |

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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Response Location: United States, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin

The Crisis Assessment Response Team (CART) model pairs mental health clinicians with a plain-clothed officer trained in crisis intervention to answer emergency calls together to increase voluntary treatment and decrease involuntary emergency detentions. One team that started working together in Feburary responded to 12 calls in 10 days, with only one resulting in a detention.

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More parents are giving up their kids, but this Virginia model could be a solution

Jenna Zibton

February 13, 2025 |

WSLS-TV |

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5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Fairfax, Virginia

Case managers at the Fairfax County Department of Family Services is working to help families avoid filing and following through with relief of custody requests, instead providing therapy, in-home counseling, connection to treatment facilities and other resources that help prevent youth from entering the foster care system.

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The Revival of Germany's Carbon-Sequestering Peatlands

Christian Schwägerl

February 10, 2025 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: Germany

Various initiatives are restoring farmlands to peatlands, which is helping lower CO2 levels in agriculture and create markets for the native grasses, reeds and sedges that peatlands support.

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Darfur's women refugees lead reforestation of war-blighted Sudan–Chad borderland

Robert Bociaga

February 10, 2025 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Chad, Adré

The Safe Space for Women and Girls plants neem trees around the Adré refugee camp with the goal of combatting the effects of deforestation while also providing purpose and hope for refugees living at the camp. Women involved in the organization are trained to craft products such as bags and jewelry from the neem tree oil and wood, with the proceeds of these goods reinvested into conservation efforts. So far, the organization has planted more than 300 trees.

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How GoFundMe Became a $250 Million Lifeline After the L.A. Fires

Ken Bensinger, Jeremy Singer-Vine

February 09, 2025 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States

Though not without certain flaws, GoFundMe has facilitated critical and rapid financial support for thousands of people. The company charges a 2.9 percent fee on all donations, as well as 30 cents for every transaction, to cover credit card and bank transaction fees, but its primary source of revenue is voluntary tips.

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Ethiopia's Utopian Experiment in Gender Equality

Peter Yeung

February 07, 2025 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: Ethiopia, Awra Amba

The Awra Amba community is founded on broad values such as gender equality of labor, women’s rights, children’s rights, and caring for the elderly and vulnerable, and residents work together on 15 democratically elected committees to make key decisions. Research shows that the community has achieved higher life expectancy, literacy rates, and measures of gender equality than the country’s national averages.

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Successful rural county health program could go statewide—if politics don't get in the way

Jaymie Baxley

February 06, 2025 |

North Carolina Health News |

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Response Location: United States, North Carolina

The Healthy Opportunities pilot program uses Medicaid dollars to address non-medical needs like food access, transportation and housing. Since launching in 2022, the program has assisted nearly 30,000 people in 33 of the state’s 100 counties. Research shows the state is spending about $85 less in medical costs per month for each participant, and lawmakers are currently weighing whether to expand the program.

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Some Wisconsin landowners manage beavers with non-lethal ways

Bennet Goldstein

February 06, 2025 |

Wisconsin Watch |

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Response Location: United States, Maine

Advocates and ecological consultants are popularizing flow control devices and tactics as a solution to beaver conflicts. A few are limiting beavers’ damming behavior and reducing beavers impacts on human infrastructure.

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