Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
12 April 2021
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Little Earth Protectors is one of several community patrol groups that emerged in Minneapolis' unrest after George Floyd's death in police custody. Named for a mostly Native American neighborhood with high rates of vi...
7 April 2021
Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
Radio Talk Show
5-15 Minutes
A college professor and a former stabbing victim counsel young men in the hospital soon after they are shot or stabbed. These interventions, based on trust and shared experiences, are meant to prevent repeat injuries,...
Grady Newsource
Trey Young
7 April 2021
Georgia, United States
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
11Alive, a Georgia news station, runs a program called "Verify" that helps residents get accurate information and slow the spread of disinformation. Viewers submit a form online or via an app to request any piece of i...
6 April 2021
London, England, United Kingdom
Text
800-1500 Words
To discourage the spread of misinformation about the Covid vaccine and decrease vaccine hesitancy in minority communities, religious leaders and other influential people in Britain have launched campaigns to dispel co...
31 March 2021
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
VIP Fort Worth modeled itself on a number of violence-intervention programs with a blended approach that has been so successful in such a short time that Texas officials are considering investing in a statewide versio...
28 March 2021
Newark, New Jersey, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Newark's Community Street Team hires and trains formerly incarcerated people and people who have been victims of violence to mediate disputes before they turn violent. Street outreach interventions have been associate...
27 March 2021
Uniontown, Alabama, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
To Covid vaccinations into as many arms as possible, a group of community clinics in Alabama called Cahaba Medical Care is working together with underserved communities to spread the word and schedule appointments. Al...
19 March 2021
Portland, Oregon, United States
Broadcast TV Talk Show
Over 15 Minutes
In its first month of operation, Portland Street Response Team began intervening with people on the streets who are experiencing substance abuse or mental health problems. The program, modeled on Eugene, Oregon's CAHO...
11 March 2021
Oakland, California, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
With hate crimes against Asian Americans on the rise, Oakland's Community Ambassadors program serves the city's Chinatown by caring for the neighborhood and making people feel safe. Started as a way for formerly incar...
7 March 2021
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Kids Under Twenty One has taken phone calls from thousands of St. Louis-area youth to its 24/7 crisis hotline and has educated many more students at 60 schools in four counties. Teens staff the hotline, a rarity. KUTO...
1 March 2021
Melbourne, Australia
Text
800-1500 Words
The Marram-Ngala Ganbu program, also known as Koori Family Hearing Day, provides a child-protection specialist to support Indigenous families before family court hearings, support them in the hearing, connect them to ...
Deník Referendum
Fatima Rahimi
26 February 2021
Brno, Czech Republic
Text
Over 3000 Words
Intercultural city workers act as bridges between public institutions and the Arab, Moldovan/Romanian, and Russian-speaking, and Vietnamese communities. They accompany clients to government offices, where their presen...
26 February 2021
New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In the more than five years since New York's governor ordered the attorney general to take charge of investigations and prosecutions when police kill unarmed people, only three police officers have been charged with c...
23 February 2021
Assam, India
Multi-Media
Over 3000 Words
Purnima Devi Barman has been building trust and working with various community members to save a stork species called the greater adjutant in India. Because of her work, she has inspired more than 10,000 women and the...
21 February 2021
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Catholic schools in Philadelphia that have reopened during the pandemic have been able to avoid in-school community transmission amongst students and staff. Relying heavily on safety precautions, rigid systems and pro...
18 February 2021
Flint, Michigan, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
A community-based water testing and lead-education pilot program aimed to rebuild confidence and trust among Flint residents, who are skeptical of state-affiliated testing. Trained students collected water samples tha...
The Atlantic
Madeline Drexler
10 February 2021
Bhutan
Text
1500-3000 Words
Despite being a small and historically underresourced nation, Bhutan has managed to contain the spread of the coronavirus and avoid all but one death from the virus during the entire duration of the pandemic thus far....
8 February 2021
Illinois, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
Since 2017, two publicly funded trauma recovery centers in Illinois have helped violent-crime survivors cope with the emotional fallout that can accompany a loved one's murder or surviving their own violent attack. Ca...
5 February 2021
Los Angeles, California, United States
Text
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...
1 February 2021
Port Angeles, Washington, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
A school in the city of Port Angeles has been reopened since October 2020, it offers valuable pandemic lessons for other schools that are in the process of reopening. Aside from logistical things like temperature chec...
Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT)
Giedrius Vitkauskas
30 January 2021
Vilnius, Lithuania
Text
800-1500 Words
A nonprofit in Lithuania is providing resources for children from the Roma community in order to decrease the rate of students who drop out of school early. The historically-marginalized group faces social stigmas and...
28 January 2021
Seattle, Washington, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Seattle spent nearly a decade reforming its police department and branding itself as an example of how to fix a broken system prone to violence and racial bias. Public trust improved and the use of force declined. But...
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
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...
27 January 2021
Alaska, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
A viral campaign from Indigenous activists, TikTok creators, and documentary filmmakers led to about 6.3 million letters being sent to federal agencies encouraging them to halt fossil fuel development in the Arctic Na...
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