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  • Remembering How to Be Friends: Amid COVID Isolation, One School is Using Talking Circles to Help Kids Reconnect

    June 22, 2022 |

    The 74 |

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    Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

    At one Texas high school, members of Students Organizing for Anti-Racism (SOAR) facilitate and participate in talking circles to address conflict, provide mental health support, rebuild relationships, and redevelop social skills they lost during the pandemic. The circles draw on Indigenous traditions to offer a safe, structured space for expression that focuses on addressing harm rather than administering punishment.

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  • Wrongful Convictions Lawyers Cash In by Targeting Insurers

    June 21, 2022 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: United States, Idaho Falls, Idaho

    The lawyers at Lathrop GPM created a strategy to settle civil rights claims by encouraging municipalities to use insurance money to pay settlements. The strategy helps inmates alleging bodily injury and wrongful conviction to recieve payouts and be absolved of their crimes without using taxpayer dollars.

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  • Hoboken Hasn't Had a Traffic Death in 4 Years. What's It Doing Right?

    June 17, 2022 |

    Curbed New York |

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    Response Location: United States, Hoboken, New Jersey

    The city of Hoboken uses “Daylighting” – city planning prioritizing infrastructure changes to increase pedestrian and traffic safety, which has prevented traffic-related fatalities since 2018. Interventions include bike lanes, curb extensions, bus lanes, high-visibility crosswalks, and raised intersections.

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  • Metro Phoenix cities turn to homeless courts to help people navigate the justice system

    June 03, 2022 |

    AZ Central (The Arizona Republic) |

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    Response Location: United States, Mesa, Arizona

    When people experiencing homelessness in Mesa, Ariz. are charged with low-level offenses such as trespassing or public intoxication, they have the option to participate in community court to get their case dismissed if they agree to seek help from government programs and services. Participants are assigned a "navigator" to help them obtain required identification documents, search for housing, or apply for jobs, and more than 90% of those who graduated from community court in 2021 have not ended up back in the legal system.

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  • Vista Nueva makes Natomas the next front in keeping people housed as Sacramento's affordability crisis intensifies

    June 02, 2022 |

    Sacramento News & Review |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    Inspired by temporary housing initiatives launched during the COVID-19 pandemic, California's Homekey program provides grant funding to help communities convert motels and hotels into permanent supportive housing for unhoused people. More than 300 units have been developed in the Sacramento area so far, with a percentage designated for specific populations, such as families with children, tenants with disabilities, and those who access additional services on-site such as mental health and substance use support.

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  • How an Experimental Service in a Library Prevents Incarceration

    June 01, 2022 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    The Tap In Center in St. Louis connects volunteer attorneys with people who have open warrants to work toward recalling them. Since the service launched a little over a year ago, nearly 300 warrants have been recalled.

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  • A Cry for Help from Teen Boys in Austin is Answered

    May 22, 2022 |

    The 74 |

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    Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

    The mentoring program Project MALES helps young Black and Latino men normalize talking to peers about their feelings and struggles in an effort to tackle the teen mental health crisis.

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  • Radicalization Rehab: A group helping people escape hate

    May 18, 2022 |

    NewsNation |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Chicago nonprofit Life After Hate provides mentorship, individualized education, support groups, and job training to help draw people away from violent extremism and hate-based ideology. Founded by former extremists, the group uses a process of disengagement and deradicalization based on compassionate, nonjudgmental discussion with social workers and peer mentors.

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  • Inside Dallas schools' attempt to eliminate most suspensions to help kids of color

    May 18, 2022 |

    Dallas Morning News |

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    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    In an effort to eliminate suspensions that disproportionately affect Black and brown students, Dallas Independent School District created on-campus reset centers where staff mediate conflicts between students and help them reflect on their behavior. Disciplinary action has declined since the centers were implemented, and the percentage of students being repeatedly disciplined fell from 28 percent to 13 percent.

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  • They Found Peace During War. Can They Help Kalamazoo Do the Same?

    May 16, 2022 |

    The Trace |

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    Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

    Through peer support, street mediation, and assistance with underlying needs like groceries and help with schoolwork, Peace During War works to help people in Kalamazoo, Mich. leave gun violence behind. The organization's efforts alongside other prevention initiatives are thought to have helped the city record zero gun deaths in the first five months of 2022 after two years of record gun deaths.

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