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  • At 80, She Is the Defiant Editor of ‘The Buzz'

    John Leland

    January 14, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    To address the need and want for increased access to information, an 80-year-old woman living in a retirement home in New York City rallied her fellow residents and launched a newsletter to provide relevant news during the coronavirus pandemic. It has not only helped to hold management accountable, but has also provided a reprieve from the isolation that many in the institution were feeling.

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  • Give Housing, Save Money

    Jade Yamazaki Stewart

    January 14, 2021 |

    Eugene Weekly |

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    Response Location: United States, Eugene, Oregon

    Providing people with housing and then giving them the services they need to stay housed is also a very effective way to save tax-payer money. Reducing chronic homeless through programs like The Madrone Project helps keep the unhoused healthier, reducing their trips to the ER, and also saves tax dollars that go into policing those living on the streets. Spending money on housing and services can be considered an investment that helps get people housed and healthy again, as well as a financial strategy to reduce government and hospital costs.

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  • The Sausage-Making to Revive a Black-owned Sausage Factory in New Orleans

    Oscar Perry Abello

    January 14, 2021 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    Community land trusts typically provide affordable housing but now one is responsible for the revival of a family business in New Orleans. Commercial community land trusts are emerging as viable solutions for tenants being displaced by higher rents as well as the revitalization of historically Black centers of commerce. Commercial land trusts are an avenue for the Black community to have “economic self-determination.”

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  • The simple reason West Virginia leads the nation in vaccinating nursing home residents

    Tinglong Dai

    January 14, 2021 |

    The Conversation |

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    Response Location: United States, West Virginia

    Most states in the U.S. are struggling to effectively and efficiently distribute the COVID-19 vaccine, while "West Virginia became the first state to finish round one of the two-dose vaccine series in nursing homes." The key to the state's success included preemptively preparing a vaccination dissemination plan and partnering with independent and chain pharmacies.

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  • Helping Summit County's 90,000 older adults stay safe in their homes

    H.L. Comeriato

    January 14, 2021 |

    The Devil Strip |

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    Response Location: United States, Akron, Ohio

    Senior citizens are getting the home renovations they need to make their homes accessible and safe. These renovations allow them to remain safe and comfortable in their homes, where they have made a lifetime of memories.

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  • Trying to improve remote learning? A refugee camp offers some surprising lessons

    Javeria Salman

    January 14, 2021 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: Iraq

    Hello Future is a non-profit teaching digital literacy at a refugee camp in Iraq. The program aims to teach refugees aged 13-18 marketable skills, and does so through "mobile-first" initiatives, where "90% of the program is taught on a phone," coupled with in-person classes, where students learn how to use search engines, and Google Docs. The organization has now expanded its program to students in the U.S., while adapting it to fit into remote learning due to restrictions caused by the pandemic.

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  • Brno pomáhá integraci cizinců. Jak funguje oceňovaný projekt, o němž se nemluví?

    Fatima Rahimi

    January 14, 2021 |

    Deník Referendum |

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    Response Location: Czech Republic, Brno

    Integrační centra jsou v Česku často podfinancovaná, nejsou dostupná všem potřebným a zaměřují se především na tlumočení. Brno přišlo se změnou. Tamní magistrát do své struktury přímo zakomponoval supinu interkulturních pracovníků, která pomáhá s integrací cizinců. Její členové vytváří pomyslný most mezi veřejnými institucemi a zástupci cizineckých komunit. Pracují jak v terénu v rámci komunit, tak prostřednictví sociálních sítí. Podporují začlenění imigrantů do společnosti tím, že jim pomáhají osvojit si místní sociální normy, a zároveň informují instituce o jejich potřebách.

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  • Fighting to open closed doors: how advocates stepped up efforts to help sex trafficking survivors in a world where hiding victims is easier than ever

    Christopher Johnston

    January 14, 2021 |

    Eye On Ohio |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    Victims of sex trafficking in Ohio have accessed services and resources made available by local advocates. Outreach events, support, and recovery services, trauma counselors, as well as personal care items were all provided.

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  • Criminalizing Mental Illness, Part 2

    Andrew Stelzer Sarah Shourd

    January 14, 2021 |

    KALW |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Los Angeles County's Office of Diversion and Reentry has moved about 6,000 people out of jails and into programs providing mental health care, drug treatment, housing, and job training at a cost that is about one-fifth that of incarcerating people with mental illness. Like Eugene, Oregon's CAHOOTS program, ODR provides an alternative to the default model in the U.S. of incarcerating people with such health problems. L.A. County is now shifting as much as $500 million from policing to supportive services because programs like ODR and CAHOOTS fall far short of the actual need.

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  • How Denmark is administering vaccines at three times the rate of Ireland

    Naomi O’Leary

    January 13, 2021 |

    The Irish Times |

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    Response Location: Denmark

    Denmark public health workers have been able to distribute nearly their entire supply of the COVID-19 vaccine thanks in part to early preparation tactics and "a capable health system." Although the country had to procure special freezers and pay more by choosing to move forward with the first vaccine on the market, the success to administer the vaccinations to the public "far outstrips other EU countries."

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