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  • Teens Learn Life Skills Training Therapy Dogs Audio icon

    August 30, 2019 |

    Juvenile Justice Information Exchange |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Working to train therapy dogs helps kids with issues learn how to cope. Rising Ground, an organization in New York City, provides animal therapy as part of a residential placement program for juveniles facing problems with the law. The youth receive training in life skills, counseling, and peer support through their court-ordered program. In addition, Rising Ground engages them in an eight-week program to train therapy dogs, which helps the youth learn how to deal with their emotions, as well.

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  • Heat is deadly—even in Montana. But the city of Missoula is doing something about it.

    August 29, 2019 |

    The Daily Climate |

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    Response Location: United States, Missoula, Montana

    Adapting to climate change takes planning and partnerships. In Missoula, Montana, partnerships with nonprofits like Thriving Earth Exchange (TEX) and Climate Smart Missoula reinforce the city’s climate planning. TEX connects cities and urban planners with professors, experts, and other nonprofits that can assist in tackling climate change issues. By layering socioeconomic data over a heat map of the city, TEX scientists could reveal populations at highest risk of extreme temperature impacts. The team then shared data with health officials, policy makers, and the community.

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  • Using virtual reality to help students with disabilities

    August 29, 2019 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Danvers, Massachusetts

    In the Danvers, Massachusetts, school district, virtual reality technology allows students with disabilities to walk through the hallways of their middle school before the first day of classes or take field trips at their own pace as part of life skills classes. The district's technology director believes this a key "low-stakes opportunity to practice critical life skills."

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  • City officials suddenly support homeless tent cities, car camps in Sacramento neighborhoods

    August 29, 2019 |

    Sacramento Bee |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    Sacramento city officials have long resisted a "safe ground" model to homelessness; now, local government officials have changed course, allowing homeless individuals to camp on a pre-determined area with essential utilities provided. This "safe ground" model brings houseless people in the area into one restricted area that contains bathrooms and security guards, giving the city more time to create permanent solutions to homelessness.

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  • Building a better helmet

    August 29, 2019 |

    The Gresham Outlook |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    In an effort to create more effective helmets, developers and consumers have come up against both cost and technological concerns. Building helmets that protect against concussions is challenging, and those that have been promising come with the additional concern of working so well that players aren’t able to recognize when they’ve been hit too hard. Furthermore, safer helmets cost more – as much as $200 per helmet – making it hard to afford for schools with limited budgets.

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  • Young voting advocates take up the fight against suppression

    August 29, 2019 |

    The GroundTruth Project |

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    Response Location: United States, Greenville, South Carolina

    Young advocates for voting rights are fighting back against laws that make it difficult for young people and other marginalized groups to register to vote. Through public campaigns, lawsuits, and voter registration drives, these youth advocates are taking action as their peers come of age to vote.

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  • Muslims bailout fund raises nearly $150,000 to reunite migrant families

    August 28, 2019 |

    Religion News Service |

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    Response Location: United States

    A campaign called Muslims for Migrants by the Islamic nonprofit CelebrateMercy raises money to pay bond fees for immigrant parents who are detained while awaiting trial. The funds are donated to another nonprofit called the National Bail Fund Network, and so far the funds have released ten parents back to their families. The director of CelebrateMercy says that the forced separation of families is against everything taught by the Prophet Muhammad and the Islamic faith.

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  • How small businesses in Salt Lake City are helping to clear the air

    August 28, 2019 |

    The Salt Lake Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Logan, Utah

    VOCs, or volatile organic compounds, are a type of pollutant that can be found even in homes and small businesses, but across Utah, small businesses are finding creative ways to reduce their emissions. A mix of mandatory rules at the state level as well as supplementary grants to pay for the cost to switch to more environmentally-friendly machinery and materials has fueled this shift. Businesses including coffee shops, lawn care companies, and furniture stores are stepping up.

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  • Back to School: Closing The Minority Teacher Gap

    August 28, 2019 |

    The Connecticut Mirror |

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    Response Location: United States, Connecticut

    To address the persistent lack of minority teachers in Connecticut classrooms, the Capital Region Education Council has developed a teacher residency program. Local minority college graduates are paid to teach for a year in a classroom while taking intense coursework in the summers before and after.

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  • Colorado emergency rooms are trying something new to stem the opioid crisis: addiction treatment

    August 28, 2019 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Hospitals in Colorado are changing their approach to opioid crisis by treating patients that come in as emergent cases and rushing them into medication-assisted addiction treatment. The model has proved so successful that doctors are now looking to expand this approach to methamphetamine users as well.

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