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13 January 2021
Colombia
Radio
5-15 Minutes
In Colombia – where having an abortion can be stigmatizing, in some cases illegal, and now even more difficult due to the coronavirus pandemic – a clinic has set up a national hotline to help women who are up to 10 we...
Christian Science Monitor
Sarah Matusek
13 January 2021
New York, New York, United States
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800-1500 Words
Newly arrived immigrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers have found a pathway to employment through Emma’s Torch. The nonprofit eatery pays students to learn culinary skills. The program is an important stepping stone f...
7 January 2021
United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
The story of the passage of the Violence Against Women Act starts with a young legal aide to Sen. Joe Biden who did not identify as a feminist and knew little about the issues, but whose methodical building of a coali...
28 December 2020
Matamoros, Mexico
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800-1500 Words
The Global Response Management is a humanitarian nonprofit led by U.S. military veterans and staffed by U.S. volunteers and "paid asylum seekers who were medical professionals in their homelands" that offers medical h...
Honolulu Civil Beat
Allan Parachini
24 December 2020
Kauai, Hawaii, United States
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800-1500 Words
Affordable housing and wraparound services are being offered to residents experiencing homelessness in Kauai, Hawaii. A new development constructed from shipping containers isn’t meant to be a permanent solution but i...
24 December 2020
Italy
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Under 800 Words
In Italy, the “Santa’s grandchildren” program is helping to connect nursing home residents with volunteer grandchildren for visits and gifts during the holiday season. While the coronavirus pandemic has caused the mee...
22 December 2020
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Skilled immigrants are better able to capitalize on their education and work experience with some help. Initiatives in Massachusetts and Oklahoma aim to help immigrants and refugees navigate complicated higher educati...
Geneva Solutions
Svet Lustig
22 December 2020
Switzerland
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1500-3000 Words
In parts of Switzerland and Sweden, mental health care professionals are working to implement culturally appropriate psychiatry services that better addresses the needs of migrant populations. Although acquiring fundi...
18 December 2020
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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800-1500 Words
After facing staffing shortages during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, the Minnesota Department of Human Services developed an aggressive emergency hiring initiative ahead of potential new outbreaks. Using...
17 December 2020
Seattle, Washington, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Supportive housing options geared toward Native Americans specifically are rare but much-needed resources in urban areas like Seattle where up to 15% percent of the homeless population belongs to the native community....
14 December 2020
Houston, Texas, United States
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Over 3000 Words
Houston's effort to significantly decrease homelessness was successful due to the overhaul of its previous system which was disjointed, had too many services gaps, and often duplicated services. The new system provide...
12 December 2020
Arizona, United States
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1500-3000 Words
In Arizona, state officials recruited individuals for volunteer committees to have oversight of the state Division of Developmental Disabilities that was responsible for caring for those with developmental disabilitie...
Truthout
Elizabeth Hawes
12 December 2020
Shakopee, Minnesota, United States
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Over 3000 Words
Like other prisons, Minnesota's Shakopee Correctional Facility says it uses solitary confinement as punishment for violence or other misbehavior by incarcerated people, to provide safety, or to isolate people with men...
9 December 2020
Jihlava, Czech Republic
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1500-3000 Words
After a Housing First program in Brno, the Czech Republic's second-largest city, stabilized families' housing and health status, the city of Jihlava used local and European Union money, plus a charity's services, for ...
The Local
Hyunah Kim
8 December 2020
Nicosia, Cyprus
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1500-3000 Words
The humanitarian organization known as Refugee Support in Nicosia, Cyrpus has been using WhatsApp to provide useful information to refugee populations during the coronavirus pandemic in addition to delivering food to ...
8 December 2020
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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800-1500 Words
Since 2014, the Sheltersuit Foundation has distributed more than 12,000 combination jackets and sleeping bags in multiple nations to protect unhoused people from cold weather. Dutch clothing designer Bas Timmer design...
28 November 2020
Seattle, Washington, United States
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800-1500 Words
To help those experiencing homelessness, Seattle Public Utilities workers travel around the city knocking on RV doors and asking occupants if they need their sewage tank pumped. Some RVs are broken down and occupants ...
26 November 2020
Córdoba, Andalucía, Spain
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1500-3000 Words
Women migrating to Spain from Sub-Saharan often fall prey to traffickers of sex workers and forced laborers, but gaps in aid to them exist because most migrants are young men traveling alone. Since 2018, the Ödos Proj...
24 November 2020
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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800-1500 Words
Youth experiencing unstable housing in New Haven, Connecticut can build life skills in exchange for gift cards through an app built by a nonprofit. DreamKit incentivizes positive change for disadvantaged young people ...
23 November 2020
United States
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1500-3000 Words
Veterans Affairs' Reach Vet program uses an algorithm weighing 61 factors to flag veterans deemed at highest risk of suicide. While its results have not been shown to affect the suicide rate, it has more than doubled ...
Richmond Confidential
Isabella Bloom
20 November 2020
California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Nurturing Independence through Artistic Development provides classes and studio space for artists with disabilities. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the organization now offers six hours of daily virtual services to ...
Vox
Julia Belluz
19 November 2020
Vermont, United States
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1500-3000 Words
The state of Vermont has been able to keep COVID-19 cases to a minimal, at least in part by focusing on offering preventive protections for the most at-risk and vulnerable – such as the unhoused. The state's response ...
17 November 2020
Olathe, Colorado, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
Haven House, a faith-based provider of transitional housing for families experiencing homelessness, offers a safe place to live while working to reunite families that face possible loss of child custody over their hou...
17 November 2020
Denver, Colorado, United States
Radio
3-5 Minutes
Since Denver launched its Support Team Assisted Response (STAR) program in June, it has handled more than 600 calls for help with a mental health clinician and a paramedic instead of sending police officers. Modeled o...
12 November 2020
San Francisco, California, United States
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800-1500 Words
In the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, local community members are leading the effort to reach out to those experiencing homelessness during the coronavirus pandemic. This effort has been successful in coordinat...
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