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  • When Mental Health Crises Arise, Columbus Police Brings Social Workers Along

    December 23, 2019 |

    WOSU |

    Multi-Media |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Columbus, Ohio

    In Columbus, Ohio, a team of police officers and mental health professionals responds together to police calls in an effort to promote community-oriented policing. The approach has reduced arrests and helped to connect residents with social services and medical help.

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  • Flint's Water Crisis Spurs Other Cities To Remove Lead Pipes

    December 23, 2019 |

    WBEZ |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    As cities and states across the United States begin to remove lead water pipes, some communities are looking for cost-effective ways to fix them because of the risk of contaminated drinking water. Three cities in the Midwest have started the process and have used innovative ways to raise the funds to replace the aging service lines, which could be a model for other cities like Chicago to follow.

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  • How schools and employers in northeast Ohio are tackling the manufacturing workforce shortage

    December 23, 2019 |

    Richland Source |

    Text |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Chagrin Falls, Ohio

    In Northeast Ohio, manufacturing companies are partnering with local schools to address a workforce shortage by appealing to future workers at a younger age. By participating in a Certified Production Technician program, high school students in the 9th and 10th grade are able to learn technical skills, obtain a certificate, and learn more about career tracks in the manufacturing sector.

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  • Wisconsin once had a 'model' voting rights program for people with disabilities. Officials have let it decline.

    December 23, 2019 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    Wisconsin's program to make voting and polling locations accessible for people with disabilities once garnered national attention, though it has since fallen behind where it used to be. The program called for an audit of voting locations every two years, and follow up action plans for inaccessible locations.

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  • A Brand New Maito: Renovated PHC caters to community health needs in Niger State

    December 23, 2019 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Niger

    Maito, a village in Niger state, was long lacking a health care center, so when the state government began work on revitalizing a building, improvements were made to build on what hadn't worked well before. Although enhancements included additional waiting room spaces, gender, and age-specific wards, and a solar-powered system, there's still room to grow and improve.

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  • Native Americans foster healing from domestic violence through community, tradition

    December 23, 2019 |

    Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

    Multi-Media |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Las Vegas, Nevada

    To help address domestic violence and intervene in crises such as suicide and addiction within Native American communities, a decades-old culture-based program offers workshops that "foster healing through embracing community and tradition." These Gathering of Native Americans programs, which are designed specifically with the audience in mind, focus on community members helping community members as a form of counseling.

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  • School network takes turbocharged approach to education for refugee students

    December 23, 2019 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Columbus, Ohio

    Fugees Academy, with schools in Ohio and Georgia, offers specialized and trauma-informed instruction for refugee students. The school aims to get students up to speed with accelerated English instruction.

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  • How a landmark UCLA dementia program could ease burdens in Rochester communities of color

    December 20, 2019 |

    Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    The Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care program at UCLA in California is offering a new kind of patient-centered care that has helped bring relief to families in the region. The program, which creates a care plan "that builds in medical needs, solutions for caregiver stress and cultural traditions unique to each person and their family," has resulted in decreased stress and symptoms for patients and increased confidence and support for caregivers.

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  • Tenants Organize to Keep Building Affordable Through Nonprofit Purchase

    December 20, 2019 |

    San Francisco Public Press |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Affordable housing in San Francisco is becoming more and more unattainable. When the landlord tried to change its status to not be rent-controlled to not, a group of residents at said building banded together with a nonprofit to preserve the building. A nonprofit, the Mission Economic Development Agency, bought the property from the landlord so that its residents could maintain their rent in a very expensive city. Organizations like MEDA are key to helping the city and its residents transition over time to ownership.

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  • Are 'ableist' economies depriving themselves of the purple pound?

    December 20, 2019 |

    Pioneers Post |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Indonesia, Gunungkidul, Yogyakarta

    Although Indonesia is making efforts to improve disability rights, progress is slow. In the meantime, a group called Economic Empowerment for Entrepreneurs with Disability (EEED) was formed in partnership with the British Council’s DICE (Developing Inclusive Creative Economies) program. Participants in the program learn entrepreneurial skills by creating their own social enterprise, supplemented by lessons in things like marketing and management. This helps those in Indonesia with disabilities become socioeconomically independent and able to envision a develop a meaningful vision of the future.

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