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  • Campus, city resources offer free Narcan in opioid harm reduction efforts

    November 25, 2025 |

    The Post Athens |

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    Response Location: United States, Athens, Ohio

    To address overdose deaths, multiple organizations across Athens County and Ohio University have implemented free Narcan distribution and training programs since 2023, including overdose response training sessions and no-barrier access to free Narcan kits through campus cabinets, health departments, and community organizations partnered with Ohio's Project DAWN network. The programs have helped distribute hundreds of Narcan boxes and to normalize overdose response training and reduce stigma around addiction.

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  • Homeless Camp Sweeps Can Harm Health. Here's a New Way.

    November 24, 2025 |

    MindSite News |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Several California cities have adopted a new approach to clearing homeless encampments that prioritizes housing over displacement, called Inside Safe. The model involves spending 6-8 weeks getting to know each encampment resident individually, matching them with appropriate housing, moving people gradually and minimizing police involvement. Los Angeles's Inside Safe program has moved 5,200 people indoors over three years, with approximately 25% securing permanent housing.

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  • The Rustic Farms Where French Prisoners Wrap Up Their Sentences

    November 03, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: France, Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique

    The Moyembrie farm program allows French inmates to spend their final 9-12 months of incarceration working on a farm with social worker support rather than in traditional prison. This strategy has resulted in only 1 in 10 being sent back to prison and over half finding employment or training within three months of release—compared to France's national recidivism rate of over 60% within five years.

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  • Diabetes care on wheels brings help to people who need it most

    November 01, 2025 |

    CBC |

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    Response Location: Canada, Calgary, Alberta

    A mobile diabetes clinic in Calgary brings comprehensive healthcare directly to people experiencing homelessness or low income at community health centers. The team provides services including foot care, retinal scans, blood and urine screening with immediate results, dietary counseling, and connections to housing and mental health programs. The "one-stop-shop" model eliminates the need for patients to travel to multiple appointments, ensuring they get the care they need.

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  • Behind the Curtains: Inside Nigeria's Shadow Network of Abortion Care

    October 08, 2025 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    Komfot Health operates a technology-driven network providing post-abortion care and sexual reproductive health services across Nigeria. The organization trains healthcare providers to address biases, uses a chatbot system for patient triage and connects women to verified medical facilities in six states, acting as intermediaries between women seeking care and trusted healthcare providers. Since launching in 2024, Komfot Health has served over 1,790 women.

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  • Restore Justice: Local Arbitration Helps Reconcile What Courts Can't

    October 05, 2025 |

    upBeat |

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    Response Location: India, West Bengal

    The salishi (local arbitration) system operated by women's collectives in West Bengal successfully resolves about 74% of domestic violence and family disputes through community-based mediation. This has resulted in the encouragement of people following legal routes.

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  • Cedar Oaks Clinic is reimagining what mental health care can look like

    September 23, 2025 |

    North Carolina Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Wake Forest, North Carolina

    In response to gaps in accessing psychiatric care, Cedar Oaks Clinic developed a team-based mental health care model that provides alternatives to psychiatric hospitalization through same-day crisis services, six-week intensive community programs, and collaborative care involving 30 specialized staff members. The clinic uses a holistic approach where providers from different specialties work together to create individualized treatment plans. So far, the clinic has served 3,000 patients, receiving hundreds of positive reviews.

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  • Plateau Farmers Turn to Land Documents to Reclaim Their Fields Amid Violence

    August 29, 2025 |

    HumAngle |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    The Norwegian Refugee Council's land documentation project helped over 2,000 farmers in Plateau State obtain formal land tenure documents, providing legal security and reducing land disputes, but cannot protect them from ongoing violent attacks that continue to threaten their lives and livelihoods.

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  • An Old Timber Town's "Freedom Church of the Poor"

    August 29, 2025 |

    The Daily Yonder |

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    Response Location: United States, Grays Harbor County, Washington

    Chaplains on the Harbor, also known as the Freedom Church of the Poor, supports area residents experiencing poverty and homelessness through a resource center, a farm, outreach in prisons and encampments, and support with pursuing political advocacy. The organization helped community members to file a lawsuit against the city alleging a local ordinance made it difficult for outreach workers to access encampments, which ended with the city allocating funding for a sanctioned camping area.

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  • Dallas ended downtown homelessness. White House wants to change the rules.

    August 16, 2025 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    Dallas has emerged as a national model for addressing homelessness with its systematic approach combining strict enforcement of anti-camping laws with comprehensive support services and permanent housing placement. The city works with over 150 partners, including police, shelters, and housing providers through its Continuum of Care program to patrol downtown, direct people to shelters, and transition them to permanent housing with wraparound services. They’ve moved more than 270 people off the streets and declared an end to downtown homelessness in May 2025.

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