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Health Researchers Quietly Tackle the Opioid Epidemic's Hidden Crisis

Sarah Kwon

July 19, 2018 |

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Response Location: United States

Several researchers around the U.S., backed by the National Institutes of Health, are exploring the efficacy of providing contraception and counseling in the same locations as medication-assisted treatment for addiction as a way to curb the huge number of unintended pregnancies among women with opioid addictions. The results have not yet been published, but the goal is to make it easier for those who often don't usually access health care to get contraception in a fragmented system.

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The cleaners who won fair wages and a way to belong

Aditya Chakrabortty

July 18, 2018 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: United Kingdom, London

Professors, workers’ rights advocates, and workers themselves united to change the standard for the compensation of cleaning staff at local universities. Low paid service jobs, including cleaning, tend to be outsourced. This leads to lower pay and a lack of job security. Now there is a trend for universities to bring cleaning services in-house, increasing wages for workers and creating a better work culture for all.

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Beyond the Stigma: Optimism on NH's opioid front line

Shawne K. Wickham

July 18, 2018 |

New Hampshire Union Leader |

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Response Location: United States, Manchester, New Hampshire

In New Hampshire, many actors are participating to coordinate solutions to the opioid crisis. Among the most effective solutions are training physicians to help patients manage pain without opiates, helping patients wean off opiates, and maintaining rapid response teams to respond to potential overdoses.

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How Rwanda Tidied Up Its Streets (And The Rest Of The Country, Too)

Amy Yee

July 18, 2018 |

NPR |

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Response Location: Rwanda, Kigali

In Rwanda, "Umuganda" is compulsory community service once a month—citizens 18-65 must all clean up their local community. The rule is enforced by police officers who may stop citizens and force them to work on the spot. Though it's compulsory, one of the side effects is community pride.

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Innovation schools are a cross between public and charter. Could they come to Rochester?

Justin Murphy

July 18, 2018 |

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |

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Response Location: United States, Indianapolis, Indiana

Recent reports show steady improvement for students attending Indianapolis’ Innovation Schools - a unique model that “marries the autonomy of charter schools with the resources and scale of a school district.” While Innovation Schools are controlled by an outside nonprofit or board of directors and are free to make their own curriculum decisions, they rely on the public school system for a number of key resources and their test scores count towards the district's overall performance. Could this structure work in other states with varying political cultures surrounding charters and unions?

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Pop-Up Kitchen Counters Mainstream Narratives about Food in Detroit

Serena Maria Daniels

July 18, 2018 |

Next City |

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Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

Community dinners can highlight locally sourced ingredients, shine a light on food systems and their impact, and create solidarity among cooks and attendees. The Dream Cafe, a pop-up restaurant using food from Detroit’s urban farms, highlighted the impact of food systems on communities of color and brought together organizers from different sectors for a meal.

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How Penzance became Britain's first ever plastic-free town

Simon Usborne

July 18, 2018 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: United Kingdom, Penzance, England

“There were bottles, cocktail sticks, coffee cup lids, razors, toothbrushes," recalls Rachel Yates, a Penzance community member, in describing the looks of a Cornish beach she volunteered to clean up with marine conservation charity Surfers Against Sewage. Shortly after, she joined the charity and led the Cornwall community to achieving plastic-free status through awareness and campaigning efforts, unifying the town in the fight against single-use plastics.

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How States Are Rethinking Roads

Andrew Soergel

July 17, 2018 |

U.S. News & World Report |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

As cities grapple with higher temperatures, state and local governments are looking for ways to play a larger role in combatting the impacts. Throughout the United States, some of the entities are turning their attention towards solutions that make road more heat-resistant.

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What gun shops can do to help prevent suicide

Zachariah Bryan

July 17, 2018 |

The Montana Standard |

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Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

To fight suicide by firearm, an injury prevention center and a gun shop owner teamed up to form a group called the Gun Shop Project. The group empowers gun shop owners and employees with training in how to notice the signs of potentially suicidal customers—and to stop the sale of a firearm to anyone who looks like they may be at risk. Success is measurable in anecdotes from employees who say they've saved lives.

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In Kotzebue, Alaska, Hunters Are Bringing Traditional Foods—and a Sense of Comfort—to Their Local Elders

Charlee Catherine Dyroff

July 17, 2018 |

Pacific Standard |

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Response Location: United States, Kotzebue, Alaska

In the northernmost nursing home in the U.S.,the Hunter Support Program has existed for more than two decades in an attempt to provide traditional foods to Kotzebue, Alaska's elders. While the program has faced roadblocks, the program's model of person-centered care has been hailed as a clear positive for the elders and the overall community. So much so that, in 2014, an amendment titled "Service of Traditional Foods in Public Facilities" was passed as a way to formally recognize the necessity of traditional food in the nursing home.

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