Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
18 October 2021
Bogotá, Colombia
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800-1500 Words
Bogotá’s city government started the Calm Line to give men a way to connect by telephone with psychologists trained in therapeutic responses to the machismo that leads to gender-based violence. Despite doubts that Col...
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Juan Moreno Haines
15 October 2021
San Quentin, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
To combat opioid overdose deaths among incarcerated people, the California prison system in January 2020 launched a treatment program that combines medication-assisted treatment with professional and peer counseling. ...
1 October 2021
Salinas, California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Over 120 hotels and motels have been converted into affordable housing developments in California, housing 8,260 people who were previously experiencing homelessness. Known as Homekey, the state-funded program was ini...
23 September 2021
Detroit, Michigan, United States
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800-1500 Words
The Detroit Learning Center is providing job training for in-demand roles that provide living wages. The programs offered are continuously changing and align with current employer demands to provide competitive opport...
14 December 2020
Poland
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Over 3000 Words
Współpraca naukowców, organizacji pozarządowych, ekologów i rządu pozwoliła na przywrócenie naturze polskiego wilka, gatunku, który był na granicy wyginięcia. Metody takie, jak lokalizacje GPS i badania genetyczne pom...
14 September 2021
British Columbia, Canada
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1500-3000 Words
The British Columbia government waives tuition at public universities for undergraduate students who grew up in foster care, a measure that takes aim at the disadvantages young people face after aging out of the child...
9 September 2021
Eagle, Colorado, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Eagle County's two problem-solving courts put treatment ahead of punishment when addressing crimes committed by people with substance abuse problems. Originally set up as one court, they now function separately to add...
8 September 2021
Lake Mary, Florida, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
The Mental Health Intervention Group is a partnership of hospitals and community social services agencies formed by the Lake Mary Police Department to address mental health problems before they turn into crises. Avoid...
7 September 2021
Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy
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1500-3000 Words
Magna Graecia University partnered with prison administrators in Catanzaro, Italy, to help two incarcerated men find a form of rehabilitation by writing their own lives' stories. In a process called autoethnography, t...
7 September 2021
Oakland, California, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Oakland Ceasefire's "delicate architecture" balancing law enforcement and community-based responses to gun violence, which seemed to have helped lower the city's gun violence by half since 2012, came crashing down dur...
1 September 2021
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Greensboro's version of the Cure Violence program, called Gate City Coalition, has helped reduce homicides nearly to zero in the two neighborhoods where it operates. At a time of escalated gun violence, the Cure Viole...
27 August 2021
China
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800-1500 Words
China’s path to officially eliminating malaria began in the 1950s when a scientist in a government-funded program discovered the ancient Chinese herb Wormwood had been used to treat symptoms for centuries and went on ...
23 August 2021
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Various initiatives in New Orleans have created affordable housing in New Orleans specifically for musicians and artists as a way to both provide housing and revitalize neighborhoods after the widespread damage from H...
30 July 2021
Detroit, Michigan, United States
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1500-3000 Words
After the 2008 economic recession hit, Carla Walker-Miller shifted her energy services business model to not only supply electrical equipment but also implement energy efficiency programs for communities of color in D...
29 July 2021
Seeley Lake, Montana, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Regular burns of forests in the American West historically occurred naturally or as a forest management tactic by Indigenous people, but suppressing all fires has been the predominant policy for well over a century. A...
27 July 2021
California, United States
Video
5-15 Minutes
Employment programs that provide extra benefits such as paid training, books, childcare, and rent incentives allow people to switch to jobs in fields that pay living wages. Sacramento’s Digital UpSkill and Jobs Plus a...
21 July 2021
Ferndale, Washington, United States
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1500-3000 Words
The Lummi Tribal council created Sche'lang'en Village to provide a supportive community for Native families that have been torn apart by the foster system, drugs, or domestic violence. The more than 30 families accept...
19 July 2021
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Home by Hand is a nonprofit that’s working to mitigate the effects of climate change on home ownership. Storm damage, high utility bills due to extreme weather, and the loss of housing stock due to Hurricane Katrina h...
Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT)
Dovilė Lisauskaitė
19 July 2021
Netherlands
Text
800-1500 Words
University students in the Netherlands are able to qualify for stipends, loans, and employment regardless of their country of origin. Students can claim a subsidy of 413 euros as long as their family's combined incom...
16 July 2021
Monterey County, California, United States
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800-1500 Words
Casa de Noche Buena is a homeless shelter that takes a housing-first approach to providing services, which means almost anyone can find help there. Along with a place to sleep, the shelter also provides wraparound ser...
16 July 2021
Denver, Colorado, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Providing permanent housing with a menu of health and social services saved the city of Denver millions of dollars and stabilized the lives of hundreds of people. A three-year controlled experiment provided various se...
14 July 2021
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
Bridging the Gap is a violence prevention program at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center that emphasizes treating more than the physical wounds of gunshot victims. Starting in the hospital and continuing a...
9 July 2021
Bend, Oregon, United States
Radio Talk Show
Over 15 Minutes
Youth in Oregon who get court-ordered rehabilitation as an alternative to youth detention might end up at the J Bar J Ranch, which despite its name is less a working ranch than a boarding school with individual counse...
2 July 2021
Senegal
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
The Gambia river which rests in Sahel, the region between the Sahara desert and the African rainforest, used to be extremely fertile, farmers could live of the land. Yet, climate change and years of deforestation have...
2 July 2021
Langford, British Columbia, Canada
Text
1500-3000 Words
A new rent-to-own development is providing an affordable housing option. Known as My Belmont, the new solution is combining affordability with walkability as well as access to public transportation - a combination tha...
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