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  • They Made a Revolutionary System to Protect People With Developmental Disabilities. Now It's Falling Apart.

    December 12, 2020 |

    ProPublica |

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    Response Location: United States, Arizona

    In Arizona, state officials recruited individuals for volunteer committees to have oversight of the state Division of Developmental Disabilities that was responsible for caring for those with developmental disabilities. Although the program was initially successful and "helped Arizona earn its reputation as one of the best states in the country for the care of people with developmental and intellectual disabilities," in recent years, a series of resignations and increased workload have left some of the panels "barely functioning."

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  • Incarcerated Women Are Punished for Their Trauma With Solitary Confinement

    December 12, 2020 |

    Truthout |

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    Response Location: United States, Shakopee, Minnesota

    Like other prisons, Minnesota's Shakopee Correctional Facility says it uses solitary confinement as punishment for violence or other misbehavior by incarcerated people, to provide safety, or to isolate people with mental illness. But interviews with 51 women who were sent to solitary, in this story by a fellow incarcerated woman, show how common the punishment is for trivial offenses. Innocent touching is deemed inappropriate sexual activity, or women act out over the trauma they have suffered. Then they are confined in conditions that only make their emotional state worse.

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  • As Harlem Children's Zone moves to export its model nationwide, Obama's Promise Neighborhoods offer cautionary tales

    December 11, 2020 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States

    Under the Obama administration, the Promise Neighborhoods initiative was launched. It granted over $430 million in multiyear grants to nonprofits across 17 cities. The success of these grants have been difficult to measure. Two of the programs that were awarded grants highlight the differences in communities, and how success can’t be measured one way, but across a spectrum. “These first five years are like finding yourself,” said Lepore. “It’s an opportunity to find out what’s working, what isn’t and what we need to invest in.”

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  • Some NC rent relief recipients have no 'HOPE' of using money

    December 10, 2020 |

    WCNC-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Charlotte, North Carolina

    North Carolina's rent-relief program, Housing Opportunities and Prevention of Evictions (HOPE), has helped 3,000 families pay their rent and utilities. But the program's reach has been cut short by some landlords' refusal to accept the government aid because it comes with a required eviction ban and a cap on rent increases. The program pays up to six months' rent. Charlotte officials are debating a measure that would block landlords from discriminating based on the source of money used to pay rent.

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  • Learning the hard way

    December 09, 2020 |

    Africa in Fact |

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    Response Location: Democratic Republic of the Congo

    A failed response to the outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo has helped prepare the country's government and health officials to respond more successfully to the coronavirus pandemic and other public health crises. Several lessons that have proved especially important include the development of a research unit, focusing attention on supporting the community members rather than suppressing the virus, and improving public health communication.

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  • There are worse viruses than Covid-19 out there. How do we avoid the next big one?

    December 08, 2020 |

    Ensia |

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    Response Location: China

    Public health experts are strategizing for how to combat the next pandemic by learning from what failed to prevent the most recent coronavirus pandemic. From increasing surveillance of viruses to using diagnostic technologies to "screen for novel infections more systematically," there are a series of protocols that countries failed to utilize that can be enacted now as a preventative measure.

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  • Remote Learning Progress Report: Special needs students, parents struggled in spring

    December 08, 2020 |

    Concord Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    Across the state of New Hampshire, school districts found themselves adjusting to the meet the particular needs of special needs students. Outside tents, remote games, and equipping paraprofessionals with Chromebooks, where just some of the things different school districts implemented.

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  • NYPD Cops Cash In on Sex Trade Arrests With Little Evidence, While Black and Brown New Yorkers Pay the Price

    December 07, 2020 |

    ProPublica |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    New York Police Department sex-crimes enforcement officially shifted away from arresting people selling sex to those buying it and those in the large-scale trafficking business. At the same time, the Human Trafficking Intervention Court was created to divert sex workers' criminal cases away from conviction and toward social services. The reality, however, is that police officers' overtime income gives them incentives to make high volumes of arrests of sex workers and buyers in flimsy, low-level cases that get plea-bargained down, but which skew heavily against people of color.

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  • An oft-tried plan to curb violent crime in Baltimore resurfaces. City leaders say better leadership will bring better results.

    December 01, 2020 |

    The Baltimore Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    In the 1990s and again in 2014, when Baltimore used a strategy called focused deterrence to reduce street violence, it showed initial promise but then failed. Those failures can be tied to how the program was managed, and to changes in leadership, not to the approach itself. The strategy offers help to people at risk of shooting others or being shot, but threatens them with prosecution if they reject the help and commit violence. The revived Group Violence Reduction Strategy has worked well in many cities, including New Orleans, where Baltimore's current police chief came from.

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  • How To Feed The World Without Destroying It

    December 01, 2020 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Virginia

    The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the fragility of the U.S. food supply chain, yet for indigenous led-operations there has been little interruption thanks to practices that rely on shorter supply chains that "work with local ecosystems, not against them." In Virginia, one farmer is using the lessons from this traditional knowledge to create a small-scale farming collective.

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