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

Johnstone Kpilaakaa

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

Rachel Siegel

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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What one town learned by charging residents for every bag of trash

Tik Root

June 23, 2025 |

Grist |

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Response Location: United States, Plympton, Massachusetts

When Plympton, Massachusetts residents agreed to institute a "pay-as-you-throw system" (PAYT), the community halved its trash disposal—in part thanks to robust compost and recycling systems. In 2022, before the PAYT system, the town threw away 640 tons of trash; in 2024, that figure was 335 tons.

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One Community Took a Radical Approach to Fighting Addiction. It's Working.

Julie Wernau

June 15, 2025 |

Wall Street Journal |

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Response Location: United States, Chesterfield, Virginia

Chesterfield County, Virginia implemented a multi-faceted response to the opioid crisis, including a jail-based recovery program, Helping Addicts Recover Progressively (HARP), that brings people in recovery to the local jail to talk about addiction and treatment resources. Combined with other efforts, overdose deaths have dropped by half in a single year, and around 4,000 people have participated in HARP.

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Prison Reform Left Women Behind. Then Prosecutors Stepped In.

Issie Lapowsky

June 13, 2025 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Chowchilla, California

For the People identifies eligible cases for California’s resentencing law, conducts outreach to incarcerated women, reviews applications, and makes referrals to prosecutor resentencing units in participating counties in an effort to address the gender gap in resentencing cases. The program has helped resentence about 1,000 people, including three women, and is being implemented in five other states.

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How client advocates are quietly reshaping criminal defense

Amanda Hernández

June 10, 2025 |

Stateline |

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Response Location: United States, California

Partners in Justice pairs trained client advocates with public defenders to help people facing charges get access to support and resources that can improve their outcomes in court. One study found that this type of holistic model helped reduce expected sentence length by 24 percent.

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How Treating Teens' Trauma Is Stopping Violence in Chicago

Dan Gorenstein, Ryan Levi

June 05, 2025 |

Tradeoffs |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

The violence prevention program Choose to Change pairs cognitive behavioral therapy with intensive mentoring for high-risk Chicago teens, resulting in participants being 31% less likely to be arrested than their peers who did not participate in the program.

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To improve youth mental health, these programs start by educating parents

Ethan Therrien

June 02, 2025 |

Capital News Service Maryland |

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Response Location: United States, Kensington, Maryland

Parent Encouragement Programs teach parents new ways to connect and communicate with their children, helping them become more understanding and less authoritarian. Research shows that after seven weeks of classes, parents report increased satisfaction in their relationships with their children.

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'Motivated and inspired': California inmates are improving mental health behind bars

Francine Kiefer

May 16, 2025 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

In Los Angeles County Jail, a peer-to-peer mental health program called Forensic Inpatient (FIP) Stepdown has incarcerated individuals trained as mental health assistants supporting fellow inmates struggling with severe mental illnesses. Started by inmates themselves, the program has significantly reduced self-harm incidents, improved hygiene and social functioning, and restored dignity to inmates who participate.

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Cash assistance may curb recidivism among people leaving prison, study says

Amanda Hernández

May 14, 2025 |

Stateline |

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Response Location: United States, California

The Returning Citizens Stimulus provides cash payments to people leaving incarceration for 60 days after their release, with the goal of helping them get back on their feet. One study found that participants were much less likely to violate their parole than those who did not receive payments.

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