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Why Summer Vacation Can Mean Empty Plates for 4,000 Seattle-Area Kids

Nancy Schatz Alton

June 29, 2016 |

ParentMap |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

Food insecure children in Seattle amount to the hundreds of thousands in number. Local nonprofit, Food Lifeline’s Kids Café, has become an accessible option for poor children to receive free nutritious meals and snacks. The operation has expanded to 18 different branches across Seattle in locations where children go for enrichment and is currently looking into establishing locations in rural areas.

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Why Fight Poverty When You Can End It? Padua Project Calls The Nonprofit Bluff

Kavitha Cardoza

June 28, 2016 |

American University Radio (WAMU) |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Fort Worth, Texas

For five decades, tens of thousands of people have fought poverty. Trillions of dollars have been spent, but poverty is a stubborn enemy. In the second part of a five-part series, WAMU’s Kavitha Cardoza tells us about one innovative program in Fort Worth, Texas, that may have cracked the code.

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‘Microcosm of the city': Garfield High principal navigates racial divide

Claudia Rowe

June 25, 2016 |

The Seattle Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

After leading Seattle’s storied Garfield High School for more than a decade, Principal Ted Howard is having a crisis of conscience, wondering if his hard line with youth of color is hurting the very students he most wants to help.

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The Proven Way to Keep More Innocent Teens From Confessing to Murder (and Why Police Won't Adopt It)

Tracy Tullis

June 17, 2016 |

TakePart |

Multi-Media |

Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Canada

Standard interrogation, the Reid Technique, which includes badgering and lying to suspects until they confess, is psychological torture, especially for the young and mentally frail. In order to combat false confessions and try to get to the truth, the PEACE method uses psychological foundations to offer an alternative technique of interrogation.

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How Cincinnati Salvaged the Nation's Most Dangerous Neighborhood

Colin Woodard

June 16, 2016 |

Politico |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati Center City Development Corp., a local NGO, has invested more than half a billion dollars into what was once the city's most dangerous neighborhood - and now is comparable to Greenwich Village.

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Where are the parents? Often standing right over their kids: Pathways to Peace

Lynn Ischay

June 09, 2016 |

Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

Juvenile offenders can feel as though they have no chances for a good future. Volunteers of America’s Face Forward 2 program helps young people in Cleveland to complete their education and to find employment. With this program, juvenile offenders believe they can succeed.

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More jobs, less youth violence, data and experts say: Pathways to Peace

Olivera Perkins

June 09, 2016 |

Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

Programs run by the Volunteers of America and Ohio Means Jobs|Cleveland-Cuyahoga County focus on employment, not only as a workforce issue, but also as a way to keep young people out of trouble and lower youth violence. Such programs have the research to back them up. An analysis done for The Plain Dealer by Case Western Reserve University shows a correlation between the youth idle rate, based on teens who are neither in school nor working, and youth violence.

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Volunteers of America offers youth offenders second chances and more: Pathways to Peace

Olivera Perkins

June 09, 2016 |

Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

The Volunteers of America's Face Forward 2 program offers a second chance to youth offenders by focusing on education and employment. Destyni Iverson believes the program potentially changed the trajectory of life. She said she felt hopeless when she enrolled, and was on the verge of becoming a high school dropout. Now she is enrolled as a nursing student at Cuyahoga Community College and believes she has a bright future.

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Cleveland's struggle to curb violence brings new approach: Pathways to Peace

John Caniglia

June 09, 2016 |

Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

Operation Focus is a nationally recognized initiative to help curb gun violence; however, its effectiveness has proven to not be sustainable. The city of Cleveland has evaluated the problems of the initiative and has put forth a new plan to address underlying issues related to gun violence. Cleveland’s new approach treats violence as a preventable condition.

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How One Brooklyn Charter School Integrates With Intention

Beth Fertig

June 08, 2016 |

WNYC |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Fort Greene, New York

A school in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, has been specifically engineered to reflect the true diversity of NYC. It's one of the only schools in the district that does so: 39% white, 33% black, 20% combined Hispanic and Asian, and 8% "other."

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