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  • ‘Somebody cares': How schools are helping with student well-being

    March 24, 2021 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Kennesaw, Georgia

    To combat the mental health impacts of pandemic-era remote and hybrid learning, Palmer Middle School in Georgia established a grief-support group, a "stress busters" group, a book club, and a series of virtual lunch sessions with games and music to help students make connections and learn coping skills. More than 90% of students reported decreased stress levels after participating in the stress busters program, and their school attendance records also improved.

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  • Long shot: Vaccination campaigns move at the speed of trust

    March 18, 2021 |

    FreshWater Cleveland |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    Health centers around Cleveland seek to build trust with residents in order to dispel misinformation and increase vaccination rates against COVID-19. Health officials use social media, engage with trusted messengers like local religious leaders, and acknowledge fears while gently pushing back against misinformation to effectively build trust among the community. Culturally competent and targeted outreach has also been an effective way to convince people to get vaccinated within some immigrant communities.

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  • Hot Trash

    March 17, 2021 |

    Ear Hustle |

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    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, San Quentin, California

    Prison visiting rooms provide an irreplaceable connection between incarcerated people and their family and friends from outside prison. The in-person visits, despite the many rules that complicate the simple act of conversation, offer a grounding in what's happening in the lives they left behind, along with opportunities to have an intense dialogue about past mistakes and regrets. Interviews produced inside San Quentin Prison reveal the mixed blessing of video visits, the only form of contact for a year during the pandemic.

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  • Rescuers take advantage of mental health services during tragic year

    March 17, 2021 |

    Jackson Hole News & Guide |

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    Response Location: United States, Teton County, Wyoming

    First responders who face devastating emergency response outcomes in Wyoming are finding support through the Teton Interagency Peer Support group. The group anonymously connects the first responders with trauma-informed counselors – so far, 135 people have utilized the service.

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  • Spaulding still changing lives after 150 years

    March 15, 2021 |

    The Laconia Daily Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Northfield, New Hampshire

    The Spaulding Academy and Family Services is a residential school for children and young adults with autism and other neurological issues. It also serves young people with histories of severe trauma or who are in crisis without a stable home. The care they receive is based on love and listening, to make neglected or deeply troubled children feel valued. Some students have restored healthier relationships with their families, while others have found new homes in foster families or adoptions.

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  • Instead of Eviction, Landlords and Tenants Talk It Out

    February 19, 2021 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia's Eviction Diversion Program has helped keep more than 400 landlord-tenant disputes out of eviction court proceedings, mainly by using volunteer mediators to work out mutually agreeable plans for tenants to get caught up on their rent payments. The program started in 2020 as a way to keep people housed during the pandemic. By giving landlords and tenants a place to talk out their issues without the expense and repercussions of going to court, and by connecting tenants with rent-assistance aid, the program's launch was successful enough to win an extension throughout 2021.

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  • Anti-Racist Science Education : Short Wave

    February 17, 2021 |

    NPR |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    Science is dominated by white men, and some of the most well-regarded scientists were notoriously racist. Some science teachers are not shying away from the history of racism embedded in science but are embracing it. In this episode of Short Wave, three teachers share how they’re integrating race into the curriculum from delving into the ethics of experiments, to journaling, to reading “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks." “To fix the lab we have to fix the classroom.”

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  • How a Brooklyn Coalition Is Fighting Isolation in Seniors with Low-Tech Conference Calls

    February 11, 2021 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    To address the growing isolation facing senior citizens, a Brooklyn-based organization started an initiative called The Sharing Network to connect volunteers with seniors via telephone calls. Taking the participants' interests into account, the initiative has expanded to include the moderator-led discussion groups that focus on a wide variety of topics, with more than 70 seniors signing up to be included.

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  • After Capitol riot, desperate families turn to groups that ‘deprogram' extremists

    February 05, 2021 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States

    Groups like Parents for Peace and Life After Hate use former radicals to counsel people in the grip of right-wing extremism. Bombarded by pleas for help by families since the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot, these groups use a series of meetings to help people examine the roots of their ideology, with an aim of helping them discover for themselves the irrationality of their hatred and other beliefs. While one researcher says the methods show signs of effectiveness, success is defined mainly in individual stories of change, in a hard-to-measure process of "personal and idiosyncratic" introspection.

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  • HBCU student media confronts local news bias

    February 02, 2021 |

    Scalawag |

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    Response Location: United States, Greensboro, North Carolina

    In 2018, The A&T Register, the online student-run newspaper for North Carolina A&T State University, the largest Black university in the country, conducted a media investigation. It examined the way local media wrote headlines that associated the university with crime. They examined headlines that fell into two categories; those that used the campus as a locator for crime, or headlines that based outdated affiliations. Then, the editor-in-chief, Alexis Wray, presented their findings to local outlets hoping to effect change. They did. Their investigation led to changes in future headlines.

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