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  • Hillary Clinton Wants to End the School-to-Prison Pipeline. She Should Embrace Restorative Justice.

    Restorative justice programs essentially focus on rehabilitation instead of punishment. Schools that use the model try to understand and address the deficits that provoke students to misbehave, and teach students how to reconcile the consequences of their actions with all those affected by them.

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  • CSI Cleveland: How the city is curbing sexual violence

    Ohio's second-largest city has become a national leader in responding to rape cases and dealing compassionately with victims by working from day one with advocates from rape crisis centers.

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  • How an unlikely alliance of Jewish settlers and Palestinian activists are trying to bring peace to Israel

    Grassroots organizations are helping Palestinians and Israelis to meet and discuss their experiences with each other, often for the first time. Ali Abu Awwad, a Palestinian, co-runs one of these groups with two Israeli settlers. He describes their center is a place where “the enemy is transformed into a neighbor,” a process he says must happen before lasting political solutions to the conflict can be reached.

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  • Violence Interrupted: Rochester, N.Y., police keep one step ahead of street disputes

    In order to disrupt cycles of violence, Milwaukee’s Homicide Review Commission has recommended that Milwaukee police examine how their peers in Rochester, N.Y., organize police work around the concept of preventing disputes from escalating into violence.

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  • Police and the Public Bridge Gap on Stage

    An ensemble of New York Police Department officers and members of the public are participating in a theater program designed to bring together the opposite sides of the nationwide debate on interactions between police and minority communities.

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  • Innovative 'HUB' model improves infant mortality and saves money: Saving the Smallest

    The Pathways Community HUB model, born in Mansfield as way to improve pregnancy outcomes, is becoming a national model. Its success is in large part due to its rewarding only caretakers whose patients achieve certain health milestones.

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  • The Importance of High-School Mentors

    When it comes to helping young people succeed, education experts and nonprofits are embracing the idea that a broad web of formal and informal role models is key.

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  • Can a new victims advocacy movement break cycles of violence?

    A growing number of organizations—rallying around victim advocacy—are calling for shorter sentences for offenders and better counseling for victims across the United States.

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  • Volunteers assure that patients don't die alone

    Milford Regional is part of a wave of hospitals nationwide that are implementing volunteer programs with the goal of making sure patients have companionship when they pass away.

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  • Report Finds Juvenile Program Failed to Reduce Robberies, but Police Are Expanding It

    Despite the lack of success shown in a 2014 report, police officials say the Juvenile Robbery Intervention Program is valuable because of the good will it creates.

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