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  • Many ERs offer minimal care for miscarriage. One group wants that to change

    January 04, 2023 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Indianapolis, Indiana

    TEAMM Project — short for Training, Education and Advocacy in Miscarriage Management — is a nonprofit that hosts workshops for healthcare providers in more than 100 sites in 19 states on everything they need to know about miscarriage care. Miscarriage care is often lacking in emergency rooms, which can be dangerous for the person having a miscarriage. To remedy this, TEAMM Project educates and advocates for the use of manual vacuum aspiration kits, training providers on how to use them.

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  • How tenants around Portland fight back against landlords

    January 04, 2023 |

    Street Roots |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    Don’t Evict PDX (DEPDX) works with tenants to prevent evictions through education and helping tenants to organize and advocate for themselves. From fighting eviction notices to helping tenants learn how to effectively communicate with landlords, DEPDX offers a slew of services and resources all without people needing to become members of the group or pay any dues.

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  • What would the end of cash bail mean for Illinois? New Jersey offers a preview.

    January 04, 2023 |

    Illinois Answers Project |

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    Response Location: United States, New Jersey

    In some states, cash bail has been eliminated and this measure has seen significant results including lower jail populations, lower re-offense rates for people released on bonds and less jail time for those accused of low-level crimes. These results in states with bail reform laws suggest that bail reform works and serves as inspiration for other states looking to enact similar policies.

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  • As Outdoor Preschools Gain Traction, States Work to Unlock Funding

    January 03, 2023 |

    Pew Charitable Trusts |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Parents are enrolling children in outdoor preschool programs where most of the schooling happens outdoors as an alternative to traditional preschools.

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  • NoScar: how Ukrainians are helped to get rid of scars of war

    January 03, 2023 |

    Рубрика (Rubryka) |

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    Response Location: Ukraine

    The NoScar initiative unites volunteer doctors from all over the country to provide free cosmetic surgeries to those with scars due to the ongoing war. There are more than 40 plastic surgeons providing the procedures and together they’ve served 30 patients, as well as soldiers.

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  • How Mobile Home Communities Are Adapting for Climate Change

    January 03, 2023 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Brattleboro, Vermont

    As climate change increases flooding in the area, residents of Vermont’s Tri-Park Cooperative mobile home community can relocate to safer locations out of the flood zone without increasing their monthly expenses. The offer is part of a program created by the co-op and the local government that will cover the costs of the new homes and buyouts.

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  • New York's supervised injection sites have halted nearly 700 overdoses in just over a year

    January 03, 2023 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington Heights, New York

    OnPoint NYC is a supervised consumption site that allows people in addiction to use drugs while under medical supervision. Since November 2021, the two sites in New York have served more than 2,100 experienced drug users more than 50,000 times, with 672 overdoses treated and no deaths.

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  • How A North Side Group Is Urging Chicago Businesses To Adopt Trans-Inclusive Hiring Practices

    January 03, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    The Chicago Therapy Collective’s HireTransNow initiative provides businesses with guidelines for the hiring process to help them recruit more transgender employees. It also offers training sessions and access to a job board for transgender applicants on a sliding-scale payment basis.

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  • Hurricane-damaged roofs in Puerto Rico remain a problem. One group is offering a fix

    January 03, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States Minor Outlying Islands, San Juan, Puerto Rico

    The nonprofit PRoTechnos helps homeowners in Puerto Rico repair roofs damaged by hurricanes when they do not get government assistance to do so. The organization employs locals interested in learning about construction, so they can learn the skills necessary to get a job in the industry afterward.

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  • Embracing their place on ‘the fringes,' queer artists reimagine Jewish ritual garments for all bodies

    January 03, 2023 |

    The Forward |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    The Tzitzit Project makes Jewish ritual garments typically produced for and worn by Orthodox men in shapes and colors for a variety of bodies and genders to appeal to a more diverse set of people.

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