Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
KXAN-TV
Clare O'Connor
26 July 2021
Austin, Texas, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
Jail to Jobs pays youth while they get trained for jobs in construction, manufacturing, landscaping, and cooking. The youth come from youth detention, the streets, probation, and foster care and their trainers are for...
16 July 2021
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
When Ann Arbor created a citizen panel overseeing its police department, it chose the approach that research shows is the one best suited to having real authority, and thus the most likely to reduce racial disparities...
100 Days in Appalachia
Taylor Sisk
8 July 2021
Virginia, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
When two hospital systems merged to create Ballad Health, agreements ensured all hospitals would stay open for at least five years and essential services in each of the rural and poorly served counties would be mainta...
8 July 2021
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Charlotte's Center for Women uses a rehabilitative approach to incarceration, letting up to 30 women at a time live in a group home that provides both therapy and connections to employment. Women with one to three yea...
2 July 2021
Tempe, Arizona, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
A controversial police shooting and other fraught encounters between Tempe police and residents prompted police to devise their own retraining regimen focused on de-escalation. The department observed other cities' pr...
30 June 2021
Vallejo, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Vallejo officials are studying which type of civilian oversight they want for their police department, following years of controversial shootings of residents. Nearby Oakland and San Francisco have some of the stronge...
30 June 2021
Oakland, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
With a long string of questionable uses of force and huge payouts to settle brutality lawsuits, the Vallejo Police Department might look to nearby Oakland for one approach to achieving better, more accountable policin...
30 June 2021
Richmond, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
When the Richmond Police Department began putting police officers on foot patrol, walking neighborhood beats, relations with the public improved. That and other changes were associated with higher public trust and low...
29 June 2021
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
All people between the ages of 14 and 21 in Washington, D.C., who are placed on probation for criminal convictions get assigned a probation officer, social worker, and a "credible messenger" – a mentor, usually with h...
22 June 2021
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Text
1500-3000 Words
In less than three and a half years, Safeworks, the only supervised drug-use site in Calgary, saved thousands of people from opioid-overdose deaths and helped users for whom abstinence-based treatment didn't work. The...
The Crime Report
Ryan M. Moser
21 June 2021
Miami, Florida, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Two years into an experiment in "incentivized prison" management, Florida's Everglades Correctional Institution is considered the state's safest prison. An incarcerated journalist reporting from inside writes that by ...
21 June 2021
New York, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Stand Up to Violence is the only street-outreach gun-violence-prevention program in New York that centers its work in hospitals. Street outreach is a policing alternative that uses former gang members and formerly inc...
17 June 2021
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The Shelby County Voter Alliance, who was used to using publicly available information to run get-out-the-vote and voter registration drives, pivoted to door-knocking to increase vaccination rates. Using a grant from ...
17 June 2021
India
Text
1500-3000 Words
Accredited social health activists (ASHA) across India fight COVID-19 related misinformation on WhatsApp. ASHAs provide basic health care to people in their villages, which puts them on the frontline of treating COVID...
10 June 2021
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Baltimore's Roca program uses cognitive behavioral therapy, and patience and persistence, to work at changing the thinking of young people at high risk of committing or suffering gun violence. Counselors help their cl...
7 June 2021
Berlin, Germany
Text
Over 3000 Words
Prevention Project Dunkelfeld is "arguably the world's most radical social experiment in treating pedophilia." Its prevention-first approach to providing treatment to people who are sexually attracted to children mean...
4 June 2021
Aurora, Colorado, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
At the Second Chance Center, people emerging from prison get the necessities to survive, like housing, clothing, and food. But they also get deeper learning about how to repair their lives, thanks to an inclusive and ...
2 June 2021
Eugene, Oregon, United States
Radio Talk Show
Over 15 Minutes
The CAHOOTS program's national popularity as a model for diverting crisis calls from the police to unarmed teams of a medic and counselor belies its inability to fully serve its own community because of under-funding....
1 June 2021
California, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Three state prison systems have vaccinated incarcerated people at far greater rates than in the general public thanks in part to educational meetings with experts that helped overcome natural distrust. In California a...
The Washington Post
Peter Hermann
29 May 2021
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Unsuccessful at filling its police officer ranks with more people of color from the neighborhoods where they'll patrol, the D.C. police department takes its largely white recruit classes into those neighborhoods for l...
28 May 2021
North Carolina, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Because of coordinated partnerships between local governments, state health departments, and nonprofit groups, more and more farmworkers are receiving COVID-19 vaccinations. Through the N.C. Department of Health and H...
26 May 2021
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
First 72+ is a New Orleans reentry agency founded by formerly incarcerated people to help others as they exit prison. That help focuses on everyday needs for transportation, housing, and emotional support. As in many ...
25 May 2021
Plymouth, Minnesota, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
As New Hampshire schools debate the presence of police officers stationed in schools, one model they and other states can consider is found at Minnesota Intermediate School District 287. That district lowered in-schoo...
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