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& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
29 November 2021
Akron, Ohio, United States
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Summit County, Ohio's juvenile court's Multidisciplinary Team Representation assigns a parent advocate and social worker to child-custody cases to help parents reunite with their children much more quickly than the sy...
15 October 2021
Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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Over 3000 Words
A shared service child care model is providing affordable, high-quality options for working parents. Chambliss serves 750 children in its multiple centers and operates two thrift stores that help subsidize childcare c...
21 September 2021
Tucson, Arizona, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Single mothers in Arizona are getting access to wraparound services that give them an opportunity for social and economic mobility. The Pathways for Single Mothers provides comprehensive services that include childcar...
FreshWater Cleveland
Sydney Kornegay
15 September 2021
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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800-1500 Words
Project ACT provides support services to 1,000 Cleveland public school students experiencing homelessness or living with guardians other than their parents. Students are set up with a life skills coach who provides em...
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...
13 September 2021
Nigeria
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800-1500 Words
Miraclefeet is a U.S. based nonprofit that provides free clubfoot treatment in 29 countries, including 15 in Africa. Following Ponseti, a nonsurgical treatment plan, caregivers gently manipulate a child’s feet by stre...
17 August 2021
Darkhan, Darkhan-UUL Province, Mongolia
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800-1500 Words
The Mongolian Association of Sign Language Interpreters launched a free social media service that provides interpreters for people with hearing impairments. Using Facebook Messenger, the service allows clients to use ...
5 August 2021
Arizona, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Three years after Arizona added people with intellectual or developmental disabilities to the list of people who can trigger a public alert when they go missing, advocates say the state enjoys better coordination from...
28 July 2021
United States
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1500-3000 Words
Triple P is a public health intervention led by schools, clinics, and governments to make the key principles of “gentle parenting” accessible to parents around the world. Parents receive support and coaching to create...
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...
21 July 2021
Dallas, Texas, United States
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
For three days each summer, the Girls Embracing Mothers (GEM) camp near Dallas gives girls an escape from their daily reality of being denied a normal relationship with their incarcerated mothers. Founded by a lawyer ...
20 July 2021
Arkansas, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Project PLAY, the third of Arkansas’ three-tiered mental health consultation system, has reduced high expulsion and suspension rates for children in child care settings. The program provides consultants who go into cl...
14 July 2021
Los Angeles County, California, United States
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800-1500 Words
Based on its success in New York, ‘blind removal’ will be implemented in Los Angeles County’s child welfare system. The pilot project eliminates the child’s race from information available to social workers to prevent...
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...
6 July 2021
Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
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The Nisaika Kum’tuks and Tsawalk learning centers provide alternative schooling options for Indigenous students to learn more about their culture and languages. The centers teach a total of 100 students from 23 differ...
6 July 2021
Vernon, Connecticut, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Grassroots volunteer groups are helping people across the country make COVID-19 vaccine appointments. Get Out the Shot: Los Angeles has 100 vetted volunteers who have booked 300 appointments through the group’s system...
26 June 2021
New Hampshire, United States
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1500-3000 Words
The State Early Learning Alliance is a membership organization of about 30 independent child care centers that pools resources to save money on essential services and free up time to focus on providing high-quality ca...
15 June 2021
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Text
800-1500 Words
Homeward Bound Peterborough helps single mothers overcome their most common causes of homelessness: limited access to housing, childcare, and education. Based on a program in Toronto that has helped hundreds, the Pete...
18 May 2021
Italy
Text
800-1500 Words
Albergo Etico prepares people with disabilities for work in the hotel industry, using training based on the Montessori method. The "download" method helps people learn job skills at their own pace, translating lessons...
17 May 2021
Minnesota, United States
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1500-3000 Words
The 43-year-old Indian Child Welfare Act continues to make a "profound" difference to Native American families and tribes, despite being under frequent legal attacks. The law limits the placement of Native children in...
29 April 2021
Tacoma, Washington, United States
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1500-3000 Words
The Safe Babies program model trains judges to oversee foster-care cases with the goal of fixing the problems that led social workers to remove young children from their homes. Operating swiftly, so that babies do not...
18 April 2021
United States
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1500-3000 Words
Two-generation programs, like Home of Hope in Atlanta Georgia, help families tackle the many intricate issues that, especially when combined, lead to poverty or keep a family in poverty. These programs also help famil...
18 April 2021
Arkansas, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Employer-subsidized childcare is helping parents find backup babysitters with a service called Helpr. Parents can search through pre-vetted sitters or add friends and family to the app, allowing them to be paid for th...
31 March 2021
Hampton, New Hampshire, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A respite and resource center in New Hampshire is offering a reprieve to overburdened and stress-riddled parents during the coronavirus pandemic. The Relief Parent Respite and Resource Center has received positive rev...
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