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The Seattle model Ithaca may use to shatter drug-jail cycle

Jeff Stein

May 22, 2015 |

The Ithaca Voice |

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Response Location: United States, Ithaca, New York

The law often traps offenders in a cycle of lawbreaking. LEAD allows for drug users to become committed to a program that helps them through the quitting process instead of throwing them into prison and isolating them from the help they need.

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Doctors and Lawyers: An Innovative Partnership in Kalihi

Anita Hofschneider

May 20, 2015 |

Honolulu Civil Beat |

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Response Location: United States, Honolulu, Hawaii

Problems such as discrimination, unemployment, and homelessness can be at the root of chronic health problems such as diabetes. The Medical-Legal Partnership for Children in Hawaii provide a holistic approach to healthcare, providing essential legal services for the most vulnerable among Kalihi’s community, in particular its large immigrant population.

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Keep Kids Out of Handcuffs

Jean Trounstine

May 15, 2015 |

Truthout |

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Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

From state to state, officials are grappling with how to improve how children experience the criminal justice system. The process is highly variable – each state varies on the age that children can go to court, and a child’s race also plays a large role in how they’re treated by everyone from law enforcement to judges. States like Massachusetts are trying to pass laws that take a more holistic, transparent approach to juvenile justice, and organizations like their Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative are helping parents recognize their power in the system.

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Sustainability Pioneers: Becoming Energy Independent

Kirsi Jansa

May 12, 2015 |

Sustainability Pioneers |

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Response Location: Germany, Saerbeck

Saerbeck, Germany is setting the standard for sustainable energy use and the reduction of their carbon footprint through a series of projects. Through these projects, private and public buildings as well as farms have installed community owned solar power and transparency around the central heating plant has increased to help inform the community of ways to make less environmentally harmful decisions.

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This Iraqi couple fled ISIS but face another enemy in the US — diabetes

Sonia Narang

May 08, 2015 |

Public Radio International (PRI) |

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5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

Diabetes hits US immigrant communities especially hard, with genetics and higher-calorie diets explaining just part of it. Support groups help immigrants with diabetes to find a way to eat healthy in the American high-calorie system.

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The Secret Lives of Homeless Students

Jessica Sutherland

May 05, 2015 |

Bright Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

Homeless and impoverished kids still have the chance to receive a college education, they just need to have the confidence that they can do so and a little pushing from outside forces. The author shares her own story of accomplishing just that.

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Another Chance for Teens

David L. Kirp

May 02, 2015 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Since the 1960s, New York City has run the nation’s largest publicly managed summer jobs program. Nearly 50,000 14- to 24-four-year-olds spend six weeks working, not only in publicly funded day care centers, summer camps, hospitals and city agencies, but also high-tech firms and Fortune 500 companies. The summer jobs help at-risk kids keep from dropping out of school.

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The Navajo Nation Just Passed a Junk Food Tax. Too Bad Junk Food is All You Can Buy.

Tristan Ahtone

April 23, 2015 |

Talking Points Memo |

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Response Location: United States, Newcomb, New Mexico

More than 80 percent of the food sold on the Navajo Nation qualifies as “junk food”— products high in salt, fat and sugar—and Navajo citizens struggle with disproportionately high rates of heart disease, obesity and diabetes. But on April 1, the Healthy Dine Nation Act, colloquially known as the “junk food tax,” took effect in the Navajo Nation, adding a two percent tax to unhealthy foods like chips, candy and soda while eliminating taxes on healthy items like fresh fruits and vegetables.

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Teaching Law in a Country Where Justice Hardly Exists

Jessica Carew Kraft

April 22, 2015 |

The Atlantic |

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Response Location: Haiti, Port-au-Prince

Advocates are on a quest to improve the quality of life in Haiti through legal education.

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Overcoming Poverty's Damage to Learning

David Bornstein

April 17, 2015 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Turnaround for Children, an organization founded to address mental health issues and their repercussions in the classroom, focuses on preparing teachers and schools to structure classroom environments in a constructive way. They create opportunities for learning in rigorous ways with high expectations so that children thrive and are well cared for, helping them to thrive both academically and emotionally.

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