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  • Spaulding still changing lives after 150 years

    March 15, 2021 |

    The Laconia Daily Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Northfield, New Hampshire

    The Spaulding Academy and Family Services is a residential school for children and young adults with autism and other neurological issues. It also serves young people with histories of severe trauma or who are in crisis without a stable home. The care they receive is based on love and listening, to make neglected or deeply troubled children feel valued. Some students have restored healthier relationships with their families, while others have found new homes in foster families or adoptions.

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  • ‘Meeting people where they're at': How mobile crisis-response teams work

    March 15, 2021 |

    TVO |

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    Response Location: Canada, Thunder Bay, Ontario

    Thunder Bay police formed IMPACT (Integrated Mobile Police Assessment Crisis Team), pairing crisis responders with mental health expertise with police officers to respond 24/7 to people experiencing mental health crises. Instead of defaulting to police responses, which risk the use of force and often land people in custody or a hospital, the teams often are able to get people connected to needed social and health services. So far the team has managed to divert about 40 percent of calls to helping services.

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  • How Texas is trying to reverse falling college enrollments

    March 14, 2021 |

    Dallas Morning News |

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    Response Location: United States, Charlotte, Texas

    Future Focused Texas is a new initiatiative aiming to assist college-bound seniors and college students by providing assistance through a suite of resources and making it available to counselors and mentors. The initiative works as a collaboration between schools and partners who establish guidelines, and resources, like a bot called ADVi, to answer students' most common questions. Over 730 "college-access professionals" are taking part in the program.

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  • Why This County Is Giving Foster Youth $1,000 A Month, No Strings Attached

    March 13, 2021 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Santa Clara County, California

    A pilot program in Santa Clara County, California, is providing a guaranteed monthly income to young adults who age out of the foster care system. In addition to $1,000 the recipients will also have access to financial advice. This particular demographic was chosen for the pilot program based on statistics that show foster care youth are susceptible to homelessness and mental illness in part due to a lack of a support system.

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  • Nigeria is using radio to provide support for SGBV survivors

    March 13, 2021 |

    International Centre for Investigative Reporting |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    To combat high rates of sexual and gender-based violence in Nigeria, the Spotlight Initiative supports several organizations providing counseling and educational services to victims and to women and girls at risk of abuse. One program from the NEEM Foundation countered the pandemic shutdown by distributing transistor radios to continue its classes for women. Another, Save the Child Initiative, intervened in a child rape case that local authorities ignored, convincing national police to arrest the attacker and providing counseling to the victim and her mother.

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  • ‘I thought I was gonna die in prison.' How COVID is opening NC prison gates.

    March 12, 2021 |

    The Charlotte Observer |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    Three incarcerated people and a coalition of social justice groups sued North Carolina over its prison COVID-19 policies, winning a settlement that is accelerating releases from prison that began at the start of the pandemic. The state's prison population is already 17% lower than it was before the pandemic. Under the settlement, 3,500 more people will be granted early releases, which have begun to occur, under new criteria that changed prison rules to recognize the urgency of getting people away from a virus breeding ground.

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  • How Jersey City Middle Schoolers Stopped a Flood

    March 12, 2021 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Jersey City, New Jersey

    In a science class in a local New Jersey school, students came up with a green solution to a storm water management and flooding problem in their parking lot when it rained. With help from the Cooperative Extension Water Resources Program out of Rutgers University and funding from city agencies, they were able to build planters and install concrete to absorb the runoff. The project galvanized the community, encouraging the school to expand their STEM curriculum.

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  • How Norway's Prisons Have Weathered a Pandemic

    March 12, 2021 |

    Think Global Health |

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    Response Location: Norway

    When Covid-19 threatened to disrupt Norway's correctional system, the country's prisons and jails were quick to pivot their practices to protect those who were incarcerated. Although it helped that the country's correctional system was already known for being "small, responsive, and humane," more protocols were put into place to allow some who were incarcerated to complete their sentence at home, while others were provided with iPads to decrease isolation while visits were restricted. So far, only 60 cases of Covid-19 have been reported throughout the entire prison system.

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  • Indigenous-focused podcast connects students, teachers, community leaders

    March 12, 2021 |

    TimminsToday |

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    Response Location: Canada, Ontario

    Word Up is an Indigenous-focused podcast that connects students, teachers, and community leaders for an opportunity to learn and explore social issues. The podcast began as a way to diversify how indigenous literature was taught but expanded to incorporate other topics. For each episode, teachers select a student to interview public figures. The student learns to conduct background research and design interview questions, allowing them to feel reflected in the topics. To date, the podcast’s five episodes have had 266 unique listeners and 384 downloads, and several more episodes are being planned.

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  • A California town was promised police reform – then police got involved

    March 12, 2021 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United States, Chico, California

    A series of killings by the police sparked a community-led movement urging greater accountability and better training. The campaign bore fruit when the Chico mayor formed a committee to examine use of force policies. While police-reform advocates got appointed to the committee, the panel was dominated by the police and their political allies. Use of force policies never got examined. The city, in fact, ended up giving the police more resources and power. One policing critic concludes from this episode that professionalizing the police without scrutinizing their mission is bound to fail.

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