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11 January 2021
Los Angeles County, California, United States
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800-1500 Words
As the coronavirus pandemic forces people into isolation and social distancing, places known as "peer respites" are providing a space for those "experiencing or nearing a mental health crisis" to seek help. While the ...
23 December 2020
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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800-1500 Words
In Baltimore, a non-profit known as the Next One Up program is helping young men who are struggling in school by supporting and advancing their academic, athletic, and social development through small group activities...
13 November 2020
Sacramento, California, United States
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800-1500 Words
An initiative being piloted in the Sacramento hospitality industry aims to decrease the stigma restaurant workers face when talking about mental health concerns with their peers. This peer-to-peer mental health suppor...
21 October 2020
San Francisco, California, United States
Broadcast TV Programs
5-15 Minutes
In the 1960s, a psychologist and a team of researchers in San Francisco began sending “caring letters" as a means of suicide intervention, but the practice didn't continue outside of the research study, despite showin...
15 October 2020
San Francisco, California, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Early in the pandemic, APIENC, a community organization led by trans, non-binary, and queer Asian and Pacific Islanders in San Francisco, started a phone tree to offer help to people: getting groceries or meals, provi...
15 October 2020
Jackson, Wyoming, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Following a series of public controversies over sexual assault, Jackson's Community Safety Network convened a series of training seminars to foster a response that no amount of legislation or criminal prosecutions cou...
14 October 2020
San Francisco, California, United States
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800-1500 Words
A doula program in San Francisco is helping to create jobs and build equity in maternal health, especially for Black mothers. Training is free for the client as well as for the doulas, with trainees also receiving men...
29 September 2020
Craig, Colorado, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
"Voluntary storage" of guns is a growing movement that seeks to reduce gun suicides while avoiding political clashes with gun-rights advocates by instead promoting safety without government coercion. The Means Matter ...
12 September 2020
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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1500-3000 Words
The MindSet program adopts 30 people per year for a five-year "mobility mentoring" program, coaching people living in poverty to set clear goals and helping them save toward economic independence. Run by the nonprofit...
14 August 2020
San Francisco, California, United States
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Over 3000 Words
California, home to an unprecedented number of prison "lifers" who served decades since their teens and then were released under revised parole policies, created the Peer Reentry Navigation Network (PRNN) to have fell...
9 August 2020
Paducah, Kentucky, United States
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Under 800 Words
Vocational training and life skills classes at the McCracken County Regional Jail help prepare incarcerated people for stable jobs and living situations once they are released. Of the first 16 to complete vocational t...
7 August 2020
Glasgow, Scotland
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800-1500 Words
In Scotland, the Navigators program performs violence interruption work in seven hospitals, at the bedside of victims of violence, with counseling and connections to social services to nudge people into safer lifestyl...
7 August 2020
Los Angeles, California, United States
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A New Way of Life Reentry Project creates homes for women as they leave prison, providing a refuge and programs to help ensure a more successful transition into life on the outside. The network of small group homes, s...
3 August 2020
New York, New York, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
In the nation's largest public housing development, 696 Build Queensbridge uses the Cure Violence approach to mediating disputes before they turn violent. In 2017, its first year, there were no shootings in the develo...
31 July 2020
Oakland, California, United States
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Over 3000 Words
After two failed attempts, Oakland Ceasefire retooled its approach and since 2013 has been a significant factor in lowering homicides and nonfatal shootings. The program, used in various ways in many cities, identifie...
30 July 2020
New York, New York, United States
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800-1500 Words
In New York City, 14 organizations have more than 200 people performing street outreach to intervene in potentially deadly gun crimes in at least 20 of the city's most violent "hot spots." These "violence interrupters...
9 July 2020
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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800-1500 Words
Freed from prison after serving at least 15 years, often much longer, for crimes committed when they were teens, a group of men holds twice-monthly Zoom meetings to lend structure and peer support to their lives durin...
7 July 2020
Reno, Nevada, United States
Radio
3-5 Minutes
A new anonymous caller hotline launched in Nevada by volunteer psychiatrists to offer health-care workers a means of support as they work on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic. Although it's yet to be seen wha...
3 July 2020
Bali, Indonesia
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1500-3000 Words
A collaborative movement in Indonesia is creating job opportunities within the creative sector for those living with disabilities. Gerakan Kreabilitas holds workshops and events to provide business training through me...
26 June 2020
New York, New York, United States
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Over 3000 Words
On the front lines of the defund-police movement, groups like Elite Learners and Save Our Streets Bed-Stuy mediate conflicts in ways that have lowered violence without the involvement of police, thus reducing arrests ...
23 June 2020
New York, New York, United States
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
DOROT is a non-profit organization that matches seniors with younger adult volunteers for social visits to combat isolation and loneliness and to promote intergenerational friendships. Many of the seniors are widowers...
14 May 2020
District of Columbia, United States
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800-1500 Words
Washington, D.C. is piloting an approach called Thinking for a Change to help break the cycle of recidivism. The approach itself has been around since 1997, and it brings together individuals involved in the justice s...
6 May 2020
Wetumpka, Alabama, United States
Documentary
Over 15 Minutes
Alabama’s Tutwiler Prison for women, once found to be one of the worst prisons for women in the country, has undergone major reforms to change its once-abusive culture. A key part of this has been a focus on pregnant ...
4 May 2020
Sweden
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1500-3000 Words
Private dinners for only men to discuss notions of feminism and toxic masculinity have been picking up in interest across Sweden. What started in earnest following a string of assaults against women in 2016 has now be...
29 April 2020
Tennessee, United States
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800-1500 Words
Tennessee Reconnect, which started as a small-scale "mentorship and financial support program", has now been adopted and expanded throughout the state as a way to help adults start or continue higher education. Now in...
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