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  • 19 Years On, Nigeria's School Feeding Program Still Falls Short

    March 20, 2024 |

    The Solutions Paper |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Enugu State

    The National Home Grown School Feeding program provides food to schoolchildren to support their health and education while simultaneously supporting local cooks and farmers. During its operation, the program reached millions of students across 3o states and led to a 20% increase in primary school enrollment.

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  • Kentucky Program Supports Inmates With Substance Use Disorder

    March 19, 2024 |

    The Daily Yonder |

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    Response Location: United States, Greenup County, Kentucky

    First Day Forward provides support and assistance to people with substance use disorders who are reentering the community after incarceration in seven rural counties. The program is driven by peer-support specialists who have lived experience to provide trusting support to those seeking assistance. The program has been shown to work as the recidivism rate for those who’ve successfully completed it has dropped to 23.5%, compared to 53.2% in a nearby county.

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  • Attendance tracking program helps combat chronic absenteeism

    March 19, 2024 |

    Ashland Source |

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    Response Location: United States, Ontario, Ohio

    A specialized software called AttendanceK12 helps school secretaries, attendance counselors, and administrators more easily track student absences so they can intervene with families sooner, even offering options to automatically send parents an email when students reach a certain threshold of missed school hours. School leaders consider the technology an important element of a strategy that has helped reduce chronic absenteeism rates.

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  • Migrants Navigate State's Apartment Program On Their Own As Evictions Loom And Help Runs Dry

    March 18, 2024 |

    Borderless Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Chicago’s federally-funded Asylum Seeker Emergency Rental Assistance Program is helping migrants move out of shelters by covering six months of rent.

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  • Telehealth is making abortion way more accessible for disabled people, but it's not perfect

    March 18, 2024 |

    Reckon |

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    Response Location: United States

    Telehealth appointments make it easier for people with disabilities to access healthcare, including medication abortions, by allowing those in need to access care from the comfort of their own homes. For many people, this eliminates several access barriers they often face when seeking care. Post-Roe, medication abortion via telehealth visits accounts for 16% of all reported abortions.

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  • A California Program to Get Produce to Low-Income Families Is a Hit. Now It Is Running Out of Money.

    March 18, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    The CalFresh Fruit and Vegetable EBT Pilot Program rewards healthy shopping choices with a dollar-for-dollar instant rebate at participating grocery stores. 74,000 people in 44 of California’s 58 counties benefit from the program.

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  • What If Finding Affordable Housing Worked More Like Matchmaking?

    March 18, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Brilliant Corners helps vulnerable, low-income individuals secure housing by working with other local organizations, including the Flexible Housing Subsidy Poll, which helps match people with suitable housing options. Brilliant Corners has helped about 13,000 people get into permanent housing and can cover over $10 million in rent subsidies every month.

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  • Raising the bar: How an Edmonton gym is making exercise accessible

    March 15, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Canada, Edmonton, Alberta

    The Fitness Trans Formed program provides a safe space for trans people and members of the LGBTQ+ community to exercise and participate in fitness training from trans professionals. Training is available in a tiered pricing structure, including an option to pay nothing, and about 50 individuals have completed a Fitness Trans Formed training program since its inception. The group is also working on plans to provide informed training to other fitness professionals to make their gyms and workout spaces more inclusive.

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  • How a youth-led initiative is breaking the stigma around mental diseases in northern Nigeria

    March 15, 2024 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kaduna

    The Friends Advocacy for Mental Health Initiative (FAM) spreads awareness of the importance of mental health. It works to bring services like counseling and support groups to rural communities and schools. The Initiative’s Adolescents Save Haven Club hosts monthly sessions in secondary schools across the country, helping guide youth on their mental health journey, and has since helped over 300 students.

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  • Finding Justice Over the Airwaves

    March 14, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Sokoto

    Kukana is a weekly radio show that helps locals who struggle accessing the legal system voice their grievances on the radio and get connected with local support and lawyers to find solutions. Over the past seven years, the Kukana team helped address grievances, from land disputes to human rights issues, for more than 100,000 people.

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