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  • In Baltimore, ex-cons and drug dealers work to make streets safer

    Matt Helms

    December 16, 2016 |

    Detroit Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Safe Streets, a program run by the city’s Health Department, has lowered fatal shootings in Baltimore’s neighbourhood of Park Heights by hiring local ex-cons to defuse volatile situations before guns are drawn.

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  • Could this 12-year, unconditional mentors program help Detroit's kids?

    Matt Helms

    November 23, 2016 |

    Detroit Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    Friends of the Children is an organization in Portland that pairs kindergarteners from poor and chaotic families with mentors, who commit to being with them for 12 years. Through attention and consistency mentors are helping to keep these at risk children from dropping out of school, becoming a young parent or getting in trouble with the law.

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  • Housing deals boost Midtown's revival in Detroit

    Matt Helms

    November 01, 2015 |

    Detroit Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Five years ago, Detroit created a program called Live Midtown to encourage business growth and homeownership in the area. The aim of bringing more people to live in the neighborhood has been exceedingly successful, and data shows a racially and economically diverse group of people have moved to Midtown. The funders of housing incentives now need to decide whether they will continue to fund the program.

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