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  • The loneliness problem in L.A. starts with traffic. Could it end with a walk?

    May 16, 2019 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Rates of loneliness are increasing across the United States, as people rely on technology rather than human interaction for their day-to-day lives. To directly combat this, a man in Los Angeles created the People Walker app that allows people to request walks in order to create connection.

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  • How the Mental Health Community Is Bracing for the Impact of Climate Change

    May 16, 2019 |

    Rolling Stone |

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    Response Location: United States

    Climate change is impacting not just the environment but the way in which humans are able to exist within the altered landscape. As ecosystems shift, storms worsen and loss of homes continues to rise, the mental health industry is looking towards changing traditional practices in order to account for clients presenting with "eco-anxiety and climate grief."

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  • Campbell medical school trying to fill gaps in rural health care

    May 16, 2019 |

    WRAL-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Lillington, North Carolina

    There is a growing need for physicians in rural areas, so Campbell University in North Carolina is working to address this gap by sending medical students to practice in these populations. By placing clinical campuses in undeserved areas, the medical program is focusing on connecting students with communities where they can make a difference.

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  • Oakland tries a new way to prioritize city improvement projects: by considering equity

    May 14, 2019 |

    Oakland North |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    The city of Oakland reviewed the process for distributing city funds in order to efficiently address equity in community projects. Oakland officials and community members created a scoring system that ranks each project based on equity, health & safety, and more, relying on a larger picture of impact the project could have on surrounding populations.

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  • City with a female face: how modern Vienna was shaped by women

    May 14, 2019 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Austria, Vienna

    Vienna, Austria uses a tactic called "gender mainstreaming" to ensure that urban planning equally takes into account lives of women and men around the city. While architecture and urban planning have traditionally been male-dominated industries, Vienna actively incorporates alternative opinions and lifestyles into their city infrastructure. The Austrian capital has been pioneering ‘gender mainstreaming’ for nearly 30 years. How did the city come to be so far ahead – and could its gains be lost?

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  • Punjabi weddings turn slim

    May 13, 2019 |

    Firstpost |

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    Response Location: India, Punjab

    With the support of the Samaj committee, a local NGO, more and more Punjabi communities are downsizing their weddings. The events are traditionally expensive affairs, signifying pride and status, but for many, they are an expense that has led to debt, and even suicide. The committee reaches out to villages and families, suggesting they skip the dowry, and once one family does it, others follow suit.

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  • The Indigenous Guardians of the Amazon Rainforest

    May 13, 2019 |

    Thomson Reuters Foundation |

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    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Brazil

    The Guardians of the Forest is an indigenous volunteer group who patrols protected areas of the Amazon rainforest being destroyed by illegal logging. Volunteers seek out and destroy logging camps, chase loggers off the land, educate locals about the harms, and advocate for government resources. The loggers use violence, but the Guardians use non-violent techniques to protect uncontacted tribes, stop deforestation and species extinction, and protect indigenous culture. Despite federal obstacles, some local officials express a desire to integrate the work of the Guardians into official conservation efforts.

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  • Moms find redemption and reunification at the Willows

    May 11, 2019 |

    New Hampshire Union Leader |

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    Response Location: United States, Manchester, New Hampshire

    Manchester, New Hampshire is seeing early success with a new program that helps keep mothers battling addiction in contact with their children. Based on the premise that keeping parents connected with their child during their addiction recovery will result in more successful recoveries, the program provides the supports for overnight visits and consistent contact.

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  • They threw this mom in jail over a probation violation. These activists bailed her out.

    May 11, 2019 |

    TheGrio |

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    Response Location: United States, Maryland

    Across the United States, Black Mama’s Bail out bailed out hundreds of black women in time for Mother’s Day. The organization accepts donations to pay bail for women cannot afford it on their own as part of their larger goal of ending the cash bail system and mass incarceration. Research shows that while black women are increasingly one of the largest groups of incarcerated individuals, and yet simply posting bail has led to a majority of these cases being dropped.

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  • #FreeBlackMamas works to bail black mothers out of jail in time for Mother's Day

    May 11, 2019 |

    NBC News |

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    Response Location: United States

    Community organizing groups around the country have mobilized to get black mothers out of prison. The initiative #FreeBlackMamas has raised over $1 million dollars in donations since 2017 and comes as a growing response against the cash bail system. Besides bailing out black mothers, the groups seek to build community and address the larger systemic issue of race and incarceration.

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