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How Texas is addressing nation's crisis in youth mental health

Marin Wolf

June 16, 2023 |

The Seattle Times |

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Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

The Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium in partnership with Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute is working to train healthcare providers on how to identify and begin treating mental health concerns. The training program began in 2022 and about 74 providers participated in its first year.

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How one organization is shaping future adults in Nigeria

Kehinde Ogunronbi

June 16, 2023 |

Social Voices |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos, Lagos

To prevent youth from participating in dangerous activities after school, the Crystal Innovation Center holds programs that provide secondary school students with soft and hard skills training to prepare them for future employment. The program runs three times a week and teaches skills like goal-setting, overcoming peer pressure, fashion designing, computer literacy, and cooking.

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Goats grazing in your backyard? This climate solution is gaining ground in California

Samson Zhang

June 16, 2023 |

Sacramento Bee |

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Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

Landscaping businesses in California are trading in the typical tools and chemicals for goat herds. The practice of bringing in goats to munch on unwanted vegetation, called targeted grazing, is cheaper and more environmentally friendly than traditional landscaping.

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The Soil Farmers: Black Food Sovereignty and Climate Solutions

Justin Cook

June 16, 2023 |

NC Newsline |

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Response Location: United States, Pinetops, North Carolina

Kendrick Ransome uses ancestral farming techniques like low-till farming and conservation tilling to improve soil health and sequester more carbon on his farm. He founded Freedom Org to teach youth these practices and help other Black farmers do the same after decades of racist lending policies have dwindled their numbers.

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How Black Americans Are Reclaiming Outdoors Spaces — and Their Health

A. Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez

June 15, 2023 |

Everyday Health |

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Response Location: United States

Groups like Black People Who Hike, Good Co. Bike Club and Black Women Who are emerging across the country to challenge the stigma and racial discrimination people of color face in outdoor, recreational spaces. Studies show that interacting with nature can have significant health benefits. These groups strive to increase diversity access to these outdoor spaces as a way for people of color to find joy and healing outdoors.

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Women in Nasarawa community utilize government's stipend to provide portable water

Saadatu Albashir, Emmanuel Kutara, Tony Okerafor

June 15, 2023 |

Radio Nigeria |

Multi-Media |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: Nigeria, Nasarawa

The Conditional Cash Transfer program provides a monthly stipend to low-income individuals. The program was implemented in six local government areas and benefits over 48,000 people. Thanks to the funds from the program, several local women were able to pool their stipends together to repair their area’s only borehole to ensure locals have access to clean water.

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Slovenia, in bee heaven

Martina Žoldoš

June 15, 2023 |

Ereb |

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Response Location: Slovenia

Slovenia’s emphasis on honeybee-friendly policies, pollinator-awareness campaigns, and collaboration between beekeepers and farmers grew the bee population to its maximum capacity.

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For two brothers, saving Delhi's kites brings fame but not enough financial support

Geetanjali Krishna

June 15, 2023 |

Earth Island |

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Response Location: India, Delhi

A Delhi-based rescue and rehabilitation center for birds of prey, called Wildlife Rescue, is run by two brothers who believe every living thing has the right to be treated when injured — including the black kites many locals see as bad luck. The center treats more than 3,300 birds every year.

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College felt impossible to this student in foster care. Then NYC offered to pay.

Reema Amin

June 15, 2023 |

Chalkbeat New York |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

To help make college more accessible, New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services provides students in the foster care system with room and board, a $60 daily stipend, and up to $15,000 for tuition.

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How indoor residual spraying helping to fight Malaria in Rwanda

Jeanne d’Arc Munezero

June 15, 2023 |

Panorama |

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Response Location: Rwanda

Indoor Residual Spraying is being used as an intervention to reduce the transmission of malaria. Trained teams spray the insecticide in about 10 homes a day. Since this method of prevention was introduced in 2007, there has been a significant decrease in malaria cases. From 2016 to 2022, malaria cases went from 409 per 1,000 people to just 76 cases and deaths fell by more than 89%.

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