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Tibetan Exiles: 'We Shall Overcome'

Amy Yee

February 26, 2009 |

The Nation (New York) |

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Response Location: United States, New York

A New York-based nonprofit called Students for a Free Tibet is training Tibetans in "how to stage nonviolent protests." This effort, in conjunction with other Tibetan NGOs, has helped activists in Dharamsala, India to become "more organized, media savvy and technologically sophisticated," which in turn has increased the number of people who have come together to participate in the nonviolent protests.

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Going Big

Paul Tough

September 26, 2008 |

This American Life |

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Response Location: United States, Harlem, New York

Studies show the educational divide between affluent and poor people starts early on, before the age of 3, when children learn cognitive and emotional skills that are difficult to almost impossible to learn later as adults. In Central Harlem, parents were not applying methods that stimulate a child’s early development. So, Geoffrey Canada created Harlem’s Children Zone, an 8-week program where parents learn how to help their children. He also expanded his program to include charter schools. The first group of third graders had reading scores above the state average.

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Blocking the Transmission of Violence

Alex Kotlowitz

May 04, 2008 |

The New York Times Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

In the earliest days of what has become the Cure Violence model of violence prevention using street-outreach mediators, the Chicago CeaseFire group began hiring former gang members and people recently released from prison because of their credibility on the street. They "interrupt" violence, mediating conflicts to prevent escalation to gunfire, based on a public-health rationale that sees the spread of violence in epidemiological terms. The organization overcame skepticism when an early study showed its methods reduced violence by 16-27% more than in neighborhoods it hadn't worked in.

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The City's Cost of a Life Redeemed

Kevin Fagan, Brent Ward

October 29, 2006 |

San Francisco Chronicle |

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Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

Making the transition from the street to permanent housing can be difficult - it's hard to force people to seek help. San Francisco works to help the homeless rise from the poverty cycle by pinpointing the most chronically homeless people on the street and urge them into services.

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Success in the Big Apple: New York City finds path for mentally ill / Housing homeless before treatment bucks conventional wisdom

Kevin Fagan

June 14, 2004 |

SFGate |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

In San Francisco, 23 percent of homeless people return to the street after transitional housing programs. A New York program gives the mentally ill and homeless individual apartments alongside average New Yorkers and has had an 84 percent retention rate.

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Success in the City of Brotherly Love / The city that knows how - Philly Philadelphia / Effort stems tide of homelessness -- can S.F. learn from it?

Kevin Fagan

June 13, 2004 |

SFGate |

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Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia reduced chronic homelessness by coordinating outreach through a centralized office and providing immediate access to housing and services such as counseling and drug rehabilitation. San Francisco is studying the model.

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