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  • Gérer son stress, développer l'empathie… Quand le collège enseigne aux ados le bien-être mental

    Elsa Gambin

    May 20, 2021 |

    Télérama |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: France, Aigrefeuille-sur-Maine

    Grâce au déploiement d’ateliers de “compétences psychosociales”, des collégiens apprennent à exprimer leurs émotions, développer de l'empathie, gérer leur stress...

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  • The other SNL: New York City's athletic approach to curbing rising gun violence

    Talib Visram

    May 20, 2021 |

    FastCompany |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Saturday Night Lights is run by the DA’s office and aims to reduce gun violence by providing organized sports for school-aged kids on weekend nights, when crime often goes up. Active in 20 locations across the city, SNL has served over 20,000 kids in 10 years. Partners must open on Saturday nights, for at least 46 weeks per year, and provide high quality coaching. There is no formal sign-up process or eligibility requirements apart from age and participants can join on any given night. As a response to surging crime rates in 2020, the mayor’s office has committed $5 million a year to expand to 100 locations.

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  • Here's how people in the Delta are working to overcome COVID-19 vaccine transportation barriers

    Kelsey Davis Betz

    May 20, 2021 |

    Mississippi Today |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Mississippi

    Transit operations have been repurposed to increase access to COVID-19 vaccines among underserved communities in the Delta. A fleet of transit buses that were sitting unused at Mississippi Valley State University now provide rides to and from vaccine sites. Community activists, local transportation agencies, and philanthropic groups have worked together to arrange similar no-cost vaccination transportation for people who need it. The Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi made an initial contribution to support the efforts, though limited advertising has also limited the reach of the programs.

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  • Philly mothers of gun violence victims work to solve their children's murders

    Jo Piazza

    May 20, 2021 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia police fail to solve most of the city's growing number of homicides, in part because of the no-snitching street code, a byproduct of the community's lack of trust in police. But the streets do sometimes talk when the mothers of murder victims do their own detective work. A number of cases were solved because mothers turned their grief into a resolve to hunt down evidence that they turned over to the police. Their work grows out of the many support groups they have formed to help each other, and from a YouTube channel that helps them draw attention to unsolved murders.

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  • How Alameda County addresses mental-health crisis response

    Stephen Baxter

    May 20, 2021 |

    Santa Cruz Local |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    Alameda and Santa Cruz counties have fielded their own mobile teams to respond to mental health crises as alternatives to police-only responses. Aimed at reducing conflicts with police, overuse of hospitals and jails, and involuntarily commitments for short-term emergency mental health care, the services' limited hours and resources mean that the police still handle the majority of such calls. Alameda's pilot, begun in July 2020, is able to provide help to about one-third of the four dozen monthly calls it gets. Santa Cruz's volume is higher. Impacts on involuntary commitments unclear.

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  • The Pandemic Proved Hospitals Can Deliver Care To Seriously Ill Patients At Home

    Stephanie O'Neill

    May 20, 2021 |

    Kaiser Health News |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, California

    To reduce the overcrowding of hospitals during the Covid-19 pandemic, some hospitals in California introduced the practice of at-home hospital care. Although not available to every patient, for those where this model of care has worked, studies suggest it can provide "better outcomes for patients and costs less to provide than traditional inpatient care."

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  • Can crowd funding save the media from France's billionaire press monopoly?

    Chloe Ferreux

    May 20, 2021 |

    Roar News |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: France

    One solution to the increasing monopolization of news media outlets by a few wealthy individuals is crowd funding. In France, Julia Cagé created Un bout du Monde to raise money to intervene in the shareholding of Le Monde Group. Each person, for a donation of €5, receives one vote in the general assembly of participating press titles. Reaching the goal of providing diverse management of the media has been slow, and results are expected once more money is raised. So far, 2,170 people have donated to raise more than €155,821, a substantial amount but a long way from the millions needed to make a difference.

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  • Chiredzi-Mwenezi rural communities burn biogas to save trees

    Lungelo Ndhlovu

    May 19, 2021 |

    The Chronicle |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Zimbabwe, Chiredzi

    Rural communities in Bandama and Dungwe villages in Chiredzi and Mwenezi are using biogas technology to cook instead of cutting down trees for firewood. The technology relies on fermenting cow dung and using the material in biogas-specific stoves.

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  • People Are Using an Ancient Method of Writing Arabic to Combat AI Censors

    Hakim Bishara

    May 19, 2021 |

    Hyperallergic |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Palestine

    To get around algorithms that have flagged and removed Palestinian content, users on platforms like Facebook and Instagram are using an old version of Arabic, dating back at least a thousand years, that doesn’t have diacritical points (dots above or below letters). Converting Arabic into a dotless form in social media posts makes it much more challenging for AI machines to identify because they use a binary code to identify each letter.

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  • Laying out food pantries like grocery stores gives choice and can lead to healthy habits

    Bekah McNeel

    May 19, 2021 |

    Dallas Free Press |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    At Aunt Bette's Community Pantry in Dallas, people receiving donated food are treated with dignity and given choices that can have both psychological and nutritional benefits. A client-choice food pantry mimics a grocery store, except at this one people shop by appointment to fill their free, biweekly allotment. Volunteers help shoppers with health advice and also track inventory, so that unpopular items get discontinued. When people aren't handed a box with a take-it-or-leave-it selection, they waste less food and end up opting for healthier choices (with some helpful but not overbearing nudges).

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