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Beyond Detention: Exploring Smarter, Cheaper Alternatives to Locking Kids Up

Arielle Dreher

August 17, 2016 |

Jackson Free Press |

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Response Location: United States, Jackson, Mississippi

Alternative programming that involves "restorative justice" models - such as having youth within the criminal justice system create art as a means of self expression instead of detaining them in a prison-like facility - are much more effective at preventing antisocial and criminal behavior in youth than involvement in the juvenile-justice system.

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Jackson Teens Need Mentors, Opportunity

Todd Stauffer

August 17, 2016 |

Jackson Free Press |

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Response Location: United States, Jackson, Mississippi

The staff of the Jackson Free Press used a Solutions Journalism Network grant to explore juvenile justice issues and solutions taking place around the country. This piece offers an overview by the publisher of what they found, including a youth media program in Utah and a group in Seattle that offers alternatives for keeping young people out of the criminal justice system when they start to get in trouble. It puts it in the context of the specific challenges facing young people in Jackson and why city and state leaders should pay attention to how other communities are meeting these challenges.

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A Different Type of Addiction

Wheeler Cowperthwaite

August 10, 2016 |

Rio Grande Sun |

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Response Location: United States, Española, New Mexico

Alcohol has claimed more lives in Rio Arriba County in the past five years than other drugs. SMART, a secular alternative to Alcoholics Anonymous, provides one path toward recovery, increasingly incorporating scientific findings into treatment as well as support for family members of addicts, helping them change the environment.

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Tapping a Troubled Neighborhood's Inner Strength

David Bornstein

August 10, 2016 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Longview, Washington

HIghlands area in Southern Washington has been an impoverished and unsafe neighbourhood, however, circumstances have been improve as neighbours have begun to get to know eachother and form a community. HIghlands neighbourhood association and the Family Policy council are two initiatives that have strengthened community ties, lead to leadership opportunities, facilitated citizen-police interactions, and helped children not fall into a poverty cycle.

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A new brand of doctor targets the unhealthy in rural Tennessee

Holly Fletcher

August 05, 2016 |

The Tennessean |

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Response Location: United States, Cookeville, Tennessee

An emerging health care model, in Tennessee, has expanded to about 50 counties under a federal innovation program aimed at trying to give better care at lower prices.

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Meet the Ex-Inmate Whose Successful Prison Rehab Program Goes Beyond Drug Treatment

Melissa Hellmann

August 04, 2016 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, California

Led by peers and providing everything from group therapy to tips on how to build credit, the Timelist program works with the recently paroled as well as the presently incarcerated to reduce recidivism. Seven years after it started, Timelist’s comprehensive approach has a perfect record of it’s graduates staying out of prison.

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Questa program reframes opioid treatment in rural New Mexico

JR Logan

August 04, 2016 |

The Taos News |

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Response Location: United States, Taos Pueblo, New Mexico

A comprehensive rehabilitation facility in Taos, New Mexico uses a holistic approach to curbing addiction by offering group therapy along with traditional medical treatment. By addressing deeper mental and emotional factors that can lead to addiction, the Questa Health Center has enabled addicts to face their demons head-on, with constant support.

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Pulling Hispanic Immigrants Out of the World of Check Cash Stores

Johnny Magdaleno

August 03, 2016 |

Next City |

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Response Location: United States, Boyle Heights, California

Although the Hispanic population accounts for about 20% of the U.S. population, many of those communities are still under- or un-banked. To overcome this issue, local credit unions are adapting the way they are reaching this population by using more word of mouth and leveraging local organizations which have gained Hispanic trust, as well as using identification information this population can provide.

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Mosquito Hunter

Michelle Mizner Katie Worth

August 02, 2016 |

PBS Frontline |

Broadcast TV Programs |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Brazil, Recife

Racing to contain the Zika outbreak, Brazil has deployed an army of health workers to eradicate mosquitoes. But in a country where standing water abounds, giving mosquitoes endless opportunities to breed, the task is daunting.

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Barriers to Reforming Police Practices

Tina Rosenberg

August 02, 2016 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

With the police killings of Freddie Gray, Laquan McDonald, and other black lives across the country, the problem remains how to reform police departments and reduce excessive force on unarmed men and women. Procedural justice is a strategy that centers on legitimizing the law for at-risk communities by building trust, so that the environment of policing changes to one of respect and less crime results. Procedural justice has begun to be implemented across U.S. police departments with some measurable successes, although police accountability remains important and should be an extension of the strategy.

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