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  • To improve lifelong health, Memphis tries rooting out childhood trauma

    Childhood trauma such as abuse, neighborhood violence or the death of a parent has been found to lead to dire health and social problems later in life. How can communities intervene to spare future generations the same pain and illness? Special correspondent Sarah Varney reports in collaboration with Kaiser Health News on how the city of Memphis, Tennessee, is tackling the problem.

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  • School-Based Arrests Down At CPS Schools

    A decrease in arrests in Chicago public schools is a result of the district moving away from a zero-tolerance policy for discipline and acting in favor of more instructional intervention. This approach has allowed for kids experiencing trauma and lashing out to receive better care and direction than is provided by punitive action.

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  • Correctional farm saves money, redirects lives

    Point Mackenzie Correctional Farm has 35 inmates who work to produce food for the local food banks and the prison. The inmates who work there learn key practical skills, which have the potential to transform them and reduce recidivism.

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  • How Can Teachers Meet The Needs Of Unaccompanied Minors Who Have Suffered ‘Complex Trauma?'

    Teachers do not know how to help or understand unaccompanied minors fleeing from Central America, suffering from complex trauma. Montgomery County Public Schools asked the Compadre Network to train educators in a course called 'La Cultura Cura' to help understand the children and learn how best to help them, such as by using non-punitive techniques.

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  • When a better life seems a distant dream for freed convicts

    Rehabilitation is key for newly released prisoners, to avoid social stigma and financial problems. Providing skill development programs, mental health counseling and financial assistance are just some of the ways that Bangalore is rehabilitating freed prisoners.

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  • UDC law students push for criminal justice reform

    The incarceration rate in the United States is one of the highest in the world, and it is paid for – heavily – by the tax payers. To combat this, students argue that more funding should go to supervised release instead of incarceration.

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  • Tackling Teen Pregnancy

    Through comprehensive sex education, widely available contraception and their Human Sexuality Education law, Oregon has managed to drastically reduce their teen pregnancy rates.

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  • 'I owe them my life... they put me back on track'

    A new approach to youth justice in southeast Spain is turning lives around through agricultural labor and special education.

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  • SC Guidelines Now Protect Good Samaritans Who Help Road Accident Victims

    According to new Indian laws, if a Good Samaritan helps a road accident victim they should expect to be treated with respect by hospitals, the courts and the police.

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  • Meet the Thai Sex Workers Fighting for Their Right to Earn a Living

    Empower, a sex workers' rights organization with over 50,000 members, has been steadily pushing to improve the working conditions of women in the sex trade in Thailand. In addition to advocating for decriminalization of the trade as the best option, Empower focuses on equipping sex workers with the tools they need to assert their independence, including English classes and HIV prevention. The organization's approach is starkly different than other popular theories, such as brothel raids or the Nordic model of criminalizing the customers.

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