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  • Three ways governments encourage breastfeeding at work

    March 11, 2019 |

    Apolitical |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Norway

    Governments in Norway, the Philippines and the United Arab Emirates have all implemented policies around breastfeeding in the workplace in order to promote healthy child development. Although not without limitations and barriers, the programs each aim to make breastfeeding in the workplace more accessible and fairer to new mothers.

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  • Youth Villages Helping Families In Crisis

    March 08, 2019 |

    Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    In Oregon, there’s about 8,000 children in the Foster Care System. “Oregon takes children away from their homes at a rate two times higher than the national average.” Youth Villages is hoping their intervention programs will help bring down that rate. In other states it’s done just that. One of their programs, pairs children at risk of being removed from their family with counselors. The counselors visit the families 2 to 3 times a week. “It literally did save our adoption.” Youth Villages serves more than 250 families a year across various states.

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  • Unequal Penalties

    March 07, 2019 |

    Eugene Weekly |

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    Response Location: United States, Eugene, Oregon

    In Oregon, students who qualify for special education services are twice as likely to be disciplined as their peers. One district is working to buck this trend with a method called Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports. PBIS involves teachers conducting a comprehensive assessment of the underlying factors that might be causing poor behavior in lieu of jumping straight to suspensions and expulsions.

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  • A different kind of court: How a Miami judge pioneered a new way of handling minor human trafficking cases

    March 07, 2019 |

    The Montgomery Advertiser |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Miami, Florida

    Human trafficking has become an increasingly prevalent problem, especially in states such as Florida that host a large tourist population. To better serve the victims, Miami-Dade County has created a trauma-focused court that directs adolescents to support services rather than prostitution charges.

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  • Kinship Care a lifesaver for grandparents, families in the program

    March 06, 2019 |

    Richland Source |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Mansfield, Ohio

    In Ohio, the Richland County Children Services' Kinship Care program is helping care providers support children in their custody, when the parents are unwilling or unable to provide care themselves. The program functions to eliminate barriers to providing care by connecting the "relative or non-related adult who has a long-standing relationship with the child" with financial and emotional resources.

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  • Border communities refine tactics to deal with onslaught of fentanyl overdoses

    March 06, 2019 |

    Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Nogales, Arizona

    On the United States’ southern border, law enforcement are changing how they address drug overdoses. In places like Nogales, AZ, police are taking a public engagement approach, seeking to work with citizens to prevent overdoses, especially from fentanyl-laced drugs. They’re connecting more with the community, using foot patrol and knocking on doors, to gain more insight into the problem and how to prevent it.

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  • Denver Health's ‘Treatment On Demand' Wants To Fast Track Addiction Help In The ER

    March 06, 2019 |

    Colorado Public Radio |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Nationwide, the United States is seeing a widespread addiction to opioid use. To combat addiction in Denver, Colorado the city is piloting a program that administers buprenorphine to combat addiction in conjunction with biopsychosocial assessments conducted by therapists.

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  • Movement And Breathing Breaks Help Students Stay Focused On Learning

    March 03, 2019 |

    KQED |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Schools are increasingly using mindfulness practices to help students transition from high-energy periods like gym and recess to quieter and more focused classroom settings.

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  • ‘We believe that they can come home and be a positive force for change:' How one program helps people transition out of incarceration

    March 01, 2019 |

    Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    In Wisconsin, the Alma Brothers Smart Reentry program works to reduce the rate of recidivism by building relationships with those being released from prison and reentering society. By providing each man in the program with a guide during the last year of his sentence and first year out of prison, the program is able to offer support, resources and opportunities that the former inmates may not otherwise have.

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  • Banned: 'We are doing the president's work: cleansing the community of gays”

    February 28, 2019 |

    Bhekisisa |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos, Lagos

    The Access to Health and Rights Development Initiative (AHRDI) in Lagos, Nigeria has offered health services to over 2,000 LGBTI men since 2013 despite the nation's widespread homophobia. Because it is still dangerous to identify as or ally with homosexuality following the 2014 passage of the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act, all AHRDI's clients come from word-of-mouth referrals to receive condoms, lube, HIV testing, and more.

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