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24 February 2021
Denver, Colorado, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
Although Eugene, Oregon's long-running, successful CAHOOTS program serves as one model for the new Portland Street Response, a more relevant model can be found in Denver's STAR program. Like CAHOOTS, STAR responds to ...
19 February 2021
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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800-1500 Words
Philadelphia's Eviction Diversion Program has helped keep more than 400 landlord-tenant disputes out of eviction court proceedings, mainly by using volunteer mediators to work out mutually agreeable plans for tenants ...
19 February 2021
Delhi, India
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Under 800 Words
“More than 107,600 people were forcibly removed from their homes in India in 2019.” Evictions can have devastating effects on a student’s access to education, forcing some to drop out of school. In Delhi, a city in In...
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Teresa Di Mauro
Heydar Isayev
18 February 2021
Georgia
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Over 3000 Words
Ethnic Azeri students face disproportionate barriers in achieving university education compared to Georgians. One of those reasons is due to language barriers. Isolated from Georgian society, it's not uncommon for Aze...
FreshWater Cleveland
Connor Morris
15 February 2021
Toledo, Ohio, United States
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800-1500 Words
A 'pay to stay' law in Toledo and Yellow Springs, Ohio, is enabling renters to stay in their homes if they can cover any late rental payments in full. Current Ohio law allows a landlord to file for an eviction even if...
14 February 2021
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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800-1500 Words
In Boston, four organizations that serve Black and Latino families formed an alliance to provide low-cost learning pods to students of color. Run out of two churches, the full-day learning pods “serve nearly two dozen...
11 February 2021
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
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800-1500 Words
LEAD (Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion) proved itself in Seattle as effective at addressing the underlying problems of people experiencing homelessness, by waiving their criminal charges if they accepted needed serv...
8 February 2021
Israel
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800-1500 Words
Despite the evidence of early interventions when children are failing academic, a now-defunct Israeli remedial high school program had long lasting effects on the participants. The teens that participated in the progr...
6 February 2021
Denver, Colorado, United States
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800-1500 Words
Denver's STAR program (Support Team Assisted Response) replaced police officers with health professionals on 748 calls for help. In incidents involving mental health, homelessness, and substance abuse, police backup w...
6 February 2021
Denver, Colorado, United States
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800-1500 Words
In its first six months, Denver's STAR program (Support Team Assistance Response) handled 748 emergency calls that in the past would have gone to the police or firefighters. Two-person teams of a medic and clinician h...
5 February 2021
United States
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1500-3000 Words
Groups like Parents for Peace and Life After Hate use former radicals to counsel people in the grip of right-wing extremism. Bombarded by pleas for help by families since the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot, these gro...
5 February 2021
Los Angeles, California, United States
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800-1500 Words
The Community Safety Partnership Bureau of the Los Angeles Police Department has worked for a decade in 10 neighborhoods to prevent crime through building trust among residents, rather than through the LAPD's costly a...
4 February 2021
Honduras
Radio
5-15 Minutes
Justice In Motion helps Central American people who were separated from their children by the U.S. government when they attempted to migrate into the U.S. One lawyer in Honduras has succeeded many times in her three ...
3 February 2021
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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800-1500 Words
During 2020, the city of Cleveland reduced the rate of people experiencing homelessness by 30% due to provisions put in place to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus. Using eviction moratoriums for those at ris...
2 February 2021
California, United States
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1500-3000 Words
When a California law shifted the costs of incarcerating youth from the state to its counties, judges suddenly sent 40% fewer youth to state-run juvenile facilities. That reduction began a long-term trend that combine...
2 February 2021
Denver, Colorado, United States
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800-1500 Words
Denver's STAR (Support Team Assisted Response) program deliberately reduces potentially violent encounters between uniformed police officers and troubled people by responding to certain low-level crises with a mental ...
The Daily Tar Heel
Bethany Lee
2 February 2021
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Under 800 Words
Prison Books Collective and a partner organization, N.C. Women's Prison Book Project, for 15 years have collected donated books and then distributed them inside North Carolina prisons to incarcerated people who crave ...
1 February 2021
Los Angeles, California, United States
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800-1500 Words
In Los Angeles, the Sidewalk Project gives unhoused people gifts of marijuana to ease their anxiety and to show kindness. Since its start in the spring of 2020, the group has gifted gram-sized portions of weed nearly ...
28 January 2021
United States
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800-1500 Words
A pilot program may be able to alleviate the utility debts incurred by struggling customers who were affected by the pandemic-induced economic slowdown. A pre-pandemic program used missed utility payments as an opport...
28 January 2021
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
When people emerge from long prison sentences, they can be in a hurry to put their lives back on track. But, when enrolled in a voluntary re-entry program called the Concordance Academy of Leadership, they first must ...
28 January 2021
Seattle, Washington, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Seattle Police Department's crisis response team answers some of the city's many 911 calls for people in distress, pairing police trained in handling such calls with mental health professionals. The aim is to counter ...
28 January 2021
New York, New York, United States
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1500-3000 Words
The Brooklyn district attorney is prosecuting few prostitution cases and has dismissed 262 cases that he and sex worker advocates say are a byproduct of law enforcement unfairly targeting trans women and women of colo...
28 January 2021
Eugene, Oregon, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Like many cities, Seattle is looking to Eugene, Oregon, for a model to shift resources from police to unarmed crisis responders handling 911 calls about mental health, addiction, family conflict, and other non-crimina...
24 January 2021
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Inmates to Entrepreneurs has graduated 1 million people from its eight-week program that teaches incarcerated people how to start their own low-capital businesses. An extension of a free online entrepreneurship course...
22 January 2021
Bogotá, Colombia
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800-1500 Words
The Calm Hotline takes calls from men in Bogotá, Colombia, in an effort to address the root causes of domestic violence: a culture of machismo. Four psychologists take emergency calls – about 700 calls came in the ser...
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