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  • Guiding Mothers and Babies Through the Opioid Crisis

    June 26, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Canada, Lake First Nation, Ontario

    When the opioid crisis hit indigenous communities throughout North America, solutions that were working in urban areas, weren't available to these isolated, rural regions. To combat the crisis specifically as it relates to pregnancy, health care workers and community members from the tribes are working together to implement programs that connect newborns and their families with the medical assistance they need.

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  • What the Land Bank has accomplished the last 10 years

    June 26, 2019 |

    WEWS-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    Through expansive demolition and rehabilitation services, the Cuyahoga County Land Bank is estimated to have made a $1.43 billion impact to Cleveland and surrounding communities. The land bank focuses on renewing blighted homes in the area, focusing specifically on revitalizing low income areas that don't have enough public funding to clean up their streets.

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  • How Reflective Supervision Sessions Help Teachers Cope with the Stress of the Job

    June 26, 2019 |

    KQED |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    As schools increasingly use trauma-informed practices to teach children, one early child care center in Detroit has started to provide trauma-informed "reflective supervision" sessions for the teachers who watch trauma manifest itself in their students on a daily basis. The strategy is similar to those used to help therapists talk through all of the information they must absorb as part of their jobs and is designed to help educators manage "secondary trauma."

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  • Amsterdam's Hire-a-Refugee Program Takes On Tight Labor Market

    June 26, 2019 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Amsterdam

    In what is being called the "Amsterdam Approach," the Dutch capital has been providing comprehensive job services to new refugees to help them find employment - and help the city deal with its current labor shortage. While the program has been promising, not every new immigrant is equally prepared for the jobs available to them, meaning there is more work to be done to ensure that everyone who wants a job can find and keep one successfully.

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  • Virtual visits: how Finland is coping with an ageing population

    June 26, 2019 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Finland, Helsinki

    Digital platforms allow for remote care when access to health care may be expensive or difficult. In Finland, as social welfare policies experience the economic and budgetary constraints of a shrinking population and tax base, remote care and telemedicine provide an effective alternative. Using video calls, nurses can attend to dozens of remote patients, especially the elderly. The video sessions increase access, introduce tremendous cost savings, and allow patients to remain in the comfort of home.

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  • Doctor smartphone and other tales from the bedroom

    June 26, 2019 |

    Bhekisisa |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    Teenagers and young adults across Africa are using myPaddi, an app that allows the user to ask medical questions from the privacy of their own home. Eliminating stigma as well as information that is often derived from a religious or cultural angle, the app is helping bridge the gap between patient and doctor.

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  • Think Globally, Sustain Locally

    June 26, 2019 |

    CivicStory |

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    Response Location: United States, Holmdel, New Jersey

    A New Jersey nonprofit, Sustainable Jersey, is taking a collaborative approach to environmental health, action, and sustainability. The organization is primarily a certification program, giving New Jersey towns guidelines to follow when it comes to energy use, waste, water, and health, and spotlighting those that are doing it well. At its annual summit, it brought together organizations from across the state, calling upon them and others to take more drastic actions, especially when it comes to waste reduction.

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  • Is it time for a radical new approach to fighting global warming?

    June 25, 2019 |

    Global Ground Media |

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    Response Location: Indonesia

    Geoengineering, a term used to cover a broad range of large-scale, drastic measures to combat climate change, has the science and policy communities divided. These measures are currently being explored across the world, and while they could work as a response to climate change, many cite them as temporary band-aids that will only delay the effects of global warming. Many cite the need to understand the complexity of the issue and, rather than bandaging the issue, take a comprehensive, structural approach.

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  • Creating a haven for quality primary care in Niger: The Fuka example

    June 24, 2019 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Fuka, Niger

    Access to medical resources improves the effectiveness of health centers. In the village of Fuka, in Nigeria’s Niger State, NGOs such as the RAiSE Foundation and TY Danjuma Foundation have stepped in to support the local Primary Health Centre (PHC). Multiple initiatives, including home visits and the distribution of mosquito nets, have built relationships with the community; the most successful aspects have been the Mama Kit, given free of charge to pregnant women at the PHC, and the donation of an emergency ambulatory tricycle.

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  • Can ‘Big Data' Help Fight Big Fires? Firefighters Are Betting on It

    June 24, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    FireMap is a new program that uses real-time data to predict the direction of wildfires. In Southern California, where the tool is being tested, there is a huge potential for positive impact - fires in California swept across about 1.7 million acres in 2018. FireMap is built off an older technology, but this one is faster, more accurate, and has greater potential to scale.

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