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  • Mesa Public Schools working to beef up campus security

    The Mesa public school district has added new safety features to its buildings to prevent threats and better prepare students in the case of a shooting. One significant upgrade has been the addition of an accessible blue light system to the typical over-the-loudspeaker lockdown announcements.

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  • New Hospital in Hong Kong Boosts Childhood Cancer Care

    Treating childhood cancer has proved to be difficult in Hong Kong with specialists spread across various regions, but a new hospital has addressed this by introducing "a one-stop childhood cancer center." In a country where childhood illnesses are completely covered by health insurance, this newest asset is an additional relief for families that are battling childhood cancer.

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  • The Kids Are Alright, and They're Fixing Their Neighborhoods After Natural Disasters

    In starkly unequal Rockaway, Queens, New York, a group of 60 young people organize grassroots campaigns to equalize outcomes across race and class lines in the Rockaway Youth Task Force. Just a year after its founding Hurricane Sandy hit, and the RYTF really came into its own when it turned a vacant, half-acre lot into a thriving youth-run farm. The group also successfully lobbied the city to extend a bus line that gave over 10,000 more residents transportation access.

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  • China's Halting Leap Forward With Childhood Cancer Care

    Despite being faced with many limitations, China is trying to improve treatments and overall outcomes for childhood cancer patients. Although the country is still pushing for further success, hospitals so far have seen an improvement in diagnosis rates, coverage rates and survival rates across China due to better data sharing and collaboration efforts.

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  • Project Oklahoma: Miami school district creates new program to keep teachers

    To stop teachers from leaving the state, the Tulsa, Oklahoma, school district developed a mentoring and professional development program. Compared to four years ago, when the state lost 37 teachers to neighboring states, in the most recent school year, this number was down to two.

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  • Fleeing Bombs to Battle Cancer

    The King Hussein Cancer Center in Amman, Jordan and the Children's Cancer Center of Lebanon were both established in order to help children from all different regions battle cancer, but since war broke out, they have been helping many more patients. In order to keep up with demand, the centers expanded and launched fundraising campaigns, which allowed the centers to continue to see a significant increase in survival ratings amongst patients.

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  • The city with a radical approach to mental illness

    Normalizing mental health care helps create inclusive communities. In Geel, in Belgium, centuries of pilgrims seeking the blessing of Dymphna, the city’s patron saint of mental illness, have created a culture of community mental health care. Families provide a system of ongoing care by taking in boarders.The state supports the family-care system by offering small stipends and also by providing for clinics, schools, and other institutions.

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  • LGBTQ Asylum Seekers Face Layered Marginalization, So These Four Organizations Are Here to Help

    LGBTQ asylum seekers face a unique set of problems coming to the United States, often from places where gender expression and sexuality are strictly regulated. Four organizations across the US, Mexico, and Canada are filling this unique niche. For example, AsylumConnect created an app of resources on how to apply for asylum and a catalogue of LGBTQ-friendly services and organizations in the US for them to learn about. All four aim to validate LGBTQ asylum seekers and keep them safe.

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  • Regaining Innocence in Rural America

    Depending on location and socio-economics, treating childhood cancer looks different for many families. In Washington, organizations are cognizant of this gap and are aiming to eliminate barriers for these families by increasing access to resources.

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  • Upcoming Philadelphia Based App Connects LGBTQ Folks with Informed Affordable Health Care

    When you're new to a city, finding health practitioners that you trust can be difficult, and it's made even more challenging if you identify as LGBTQ and are looking for queer-competent providers. A new app launching in Philadelphia changes that thought, by acting as a "queer health care 'Yelp.'”

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