Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
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...
17 June 2021
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Studies show that abstinence-based prevention drug programs like D.A.R.E don't work. To provide another option, the Drug Policy Alliance, a non-profit, developed their own curriculum called “Safety First.” The fifteen...
11 June 2021
St-Jérôme, Quebec, Canada
Text
1500-3000 Words
To reduce overdose deaths from the increasing number of deadly substances found in street drugs, Centre SIDA Amitié uses lab testing to help understand exactly what drugs users are putting in their bodies and how to s...
The Local
Brannavy Jeyasundaram
4 June 2021
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Text
800-1500 Words
Toronto’s Vaccine Engagement Teams Grant has awarded $5.5 million to community organizations in 140 neighborhoods to hire and train local ambassadors for vaccine outreach. Because the ambassadors share a lived experie...
31 May 2021
Mombasa, Kenya
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1500-3000 Words
Persons Marginalized and Aggrieved in Kenya works with religious leaders over the course of many years to build empathy and understanding towards the LGBTQ community. Faith leaders are often not immediately aware of t...
27 May 2021
Pennsylvania, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
Pennsylvania at first lagged in its push to vaccinate its residents. But the state vaulted ahead in the race to vaccinate, collaborating with vaccine providers and the medical community to make vaccines easy to receiv...
26 May 2021
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A pilot program in Philadelphia’s transit system is providing social services for people struggling with addiction. Loitering violations in and around SEPTA stations are on the rise in the wake of the pandemic, spurri...
26 May 2021
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Comprehensive COVID-19 vaccination strategies helped some Native American Nations achieve high vaccination rates. Tribal sovereignty gave Nations the flexibility to create their own methods of distributing the vaccine...
21 May 2021
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Six San Francisco neighborhoods are now served by the city's Street Crisis Response Teams, which answer 911 calls for non-violent mental or behavioral health crises without police involvement. In its first two months ...
20 May 2021
New York, New York, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Saturday Night Lights is run by the DA’s office and aims to reduce gun violence by providing organized sports for school-aged kids on weekend nights, when crime often goes up. Active in 20 locations across the city, S...
20 May 2021
Mississippi, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Transit operations have been repurposed to increase access to COVID-19 vaccines among underserved communities in the Delta. A fleet of transit buses that were sitting unused at Mississippi Valley State University now ...
18 May 2021
Ogden, Utah, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
Pop-up vaccination sites in Utah are helping to eliminate barriers for those in the community who want to receive a Covid vaccination. By bringing the vaccinations directly to the individual communities, health care p...
10 May 2021
San Diego, California, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
As San Diego County ramps up its CAHOOTS copycat – a mental health crisis response that sends specialists other than police to non-violent calls, similar to the long-running exemplar in Eugene, Oregon – it's beginning...
7 May 2021
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Text
800-1500 Words
A nonprofit day shelter, Resilience Montreal, partnered with public health officials to provide vaccines to members of the indigenous community who are experiencing homelessness. Vaccinations were provided without the...
7 May 2021
Yerington, Nevada, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
A pop-up mobile clinic in Nevada's Lyon County is providing free dental care to underserved communities as a way to address the lack of practicing dental providers in the region. The response thus far has been overwhe...
4 May 2021
Whiteriver, Arizona, United States
Photojournalism
800-1500 Words
The White Mountain Apache Tribe in eastern Arizona was able to slow the spread of Covid in the community by implementing a daily routine of "contact tracing, surveillance of high-risk individuals, and vaccinations." S...
KLC Journal
Audrey Korte
4 May 2021
Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
To help protect the predominantly Black community in Sedgwick County, Kansas, the county collaborated with local leaders and residents to create an information and messaging campaign that specifically addressed commun...
1 May 2021
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Tucson Police Department's Homeless Outreach Team operates on the premise that even though many want to see police excluded from any role in dealing with homelessness, residents still call 911 and demand a police resp...
30 April 2021
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
When people refuse mental health care while under court orders to get treatment, Tucson police send a mental health support team to take the people to crisis observation clinics or hospitals. The teams have the traini...
29 April 2021
Rochester, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Following the death of Daniel Prude in Rochester police custody, the city consulted with the operators of Eugene's CAHOOTS program to craft its own version of a team of unarmed responders to help resolve mental health...
29 April 2021
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Tucson Police Department's Substance Use Resource Team reaches out on the streets to people with substance-use disorder, offering them treatment instead of arrest and jail. The team is an extension of the department's...
28 April 2021
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Social media influencers are using “pre-bunking” -- the practice of exposing people to misinformation and offering expert-backed explanations of why it isn’t true before they see the misinformation in the wild – as a ...
27 April 2021
Oklahoma, United States
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1500-3000 Words
SEED for Oklahoma Kids is a statewide effort to help newer generations climb the educational ladder and build assets. Parents are offered $1,000 in their newborn's name and set aside in a college savings account, dest...
27 April 2021
Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
Text
800-1500 Words
Temporary modular housing is alleviating homelessness in Richmond, Canada. Stacked units are quicker and cheaper to construct and the temporary housing comes with wraparound services such as meals, support groups, and...
27 April 2021
United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
The Undocumented Filmmakers Collective provides a safe, inclusive, and non-competitive space for people to discuss issues they face in their careers. The nearly 40 members are spread out across the U.S. and use Zoom t...
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