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Providing Disabled Students With Skills and Support for Finding Work

Jule Pattison-Gordon

May 06, 2025 |

Governing |

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Response Location: United States, Utah

Pre-employment transition services are designed to support high school students with documented disabilities by helping them explore potential careers, gain valuable work experience, and develop crucial life skills they’ll need to succeed in the workplace. For one student in Utah, participating in the program helped him secure a job on the path to becoming a mechanic after graduation.

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SoCal officials unleash sterile mosquitoes in bid to curb disease — with promising results

Lila Seidman

May 06, 2025 |

Los Angeles Times |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

Local agencies tasked with controlling disease-spreading organisms are releasing sterile male mosquitoes to help reduce the pest’s population and prevent the spread of dengue. This strategy has decreased the mosquito population by about 82% in parts of Southern California, marking the first time in eight years that the population has declined instead of increased.

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From privilege to subjectivity: reflecting on masculinities to improve gender equity

Soledad Bavio

May 05, 2025 |

El Colectivo 506 |

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Response Location: Brazil

Program H is a group educational methodology that works with young men through participatory workshops, role-playing, and debates to reflect on toxic masculinities and promote more equitable attitudes toward gender. It has been implemented in more than 30 countries since 2002, successfully facilitated by males who act as gender equity role models. This story is available in Spanish here: https://solu.news/24kd

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Mental Health Monday: How ACS keeps students safe with AI

Emily Crabtree

May 05, 2025 |

WBIR-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

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Response Location: United States, Anderson County, Tennessee

Gaggle monitors student behaviors on school devices using AI software to identify keywords on the device that could indicate a mental health crisis. The AI alerts a Gaggle employee, who evaluates the situation and elevates it to the school and local law enforcement if necessary.

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The Future of California's Climate-Smart Farming Programs

Naoki Nitta

May 05, 2025 |

Civil Eats |

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Response Location: United States, California

California’s climate-smart agriculture programs—funded via the state's Cap-and-Trade revenues—provide grants enabling farmers to adopt sustainable practices like drip irrigation, soil regeneration, and manure management, significantly reducing water use, greenhouse gases, and economic vulnerability to climate change while boosting long-term farm resilience.

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Crisis Survivors in Australia Are Rebuilding Their Wardrobes in Style

MaryLou Costa

May 05, 2025 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: Australia

Thread Together collects unsold, brand-new clothes from fashion retailers that would otherwise end up in landfills and distributes them to people in need across Australia who are facing clothing insecurity after crises such as floods, homelessness or domestic violence. The organization provides dignity-driven choices through mobile wardrobe vans, online "shopping," and local pop-up stores, enabling individuals to rebuild their lives with confidence and dignity.

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Parents often struggle to find help for troubled youngsters — but this Maryland program can help

Katelynn Winebrenner

May 05, 2025 |

Capital News Service Maryland |

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Response Location: United States, Hagerstown, Maryland

The Co-Location Internship Program between Salisbury University and Maryland’s child psychiatry access program places social work graduate students in pediatric offices to connect youth and their families with behavioral and mental health care for free. Since the program began in 2012, interns have conducted 12,160 family visits, with a 98.3% satisfaction rate.

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Trump has cut global climate finance. China is more than happy to step in.

Christian Shepherd

May 04, 2025 |

The Washington Post |

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Response Location: China

China's strategic provision of affordable renewable energy infrastructure—such as solar panels and wind turbines—to developing countries like the Philippines, fills the vacuum caused by significant U.S. cuts in global climate finance under the Trump administration.

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Redes de esperanza: mujeres de Piura luchan contra la violencia de género

Scarlet Timana

May 03, 2025 |

Norte Sostenible |

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Response Location: Peru, Piura

Las redes comunitarias de mujeres defensoras de Piura son estructuras organizadas que, desde 2018, brindan acompañamiento, formación y articulación interinstitucional a víctimas de violencia de género, combinando apoyo psicológico, rutas legales y empoderamiento económico. Han logrado que más mujeres se atrevan a denunciar violencia, han mejorado la coordinación entre instituciones públicas como policía y fiscalías, y han transformado a sobrevivientes en lideresas que rompen ciclos de violencia en sus comunidades. Puedes leer este artículo en inglés aquí: https://solu.news/w0cx

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In Mexico's ‘Avocado Belt,' Villagers Stand Up to Protect Their Lands

Fred Pearce, Agustín del Castillo

May 02, 2025 |

Yale Environment 360 |

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Response Location: Mexico, Michoacán

Indigenous communities in Michoacán, Mexico, have implemented traditional collective land management and community-driven governance strategies to sustainably cultivate avocados, successfully protecting local forests and biodiversity, empowering local economies, and resisting cartel violence.

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