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  • For many veterans, it's easier to enlist in the military than it is to enroll in its benefits

    January 23, 2020 |

    Kensington Voice |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    While Veterans Affairs offers healthcare and other benefits to veterans of the United States, these benefits are often difficult to access due to confusing requirements and bureaucracy. Community organizations and the department itself have had to learn from the failures of the benefits system to try to give veterans the healthcare and services they need to thrive after military service.

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  • Using Trauma-Informed Design, Buildings Become Tools for Recovery

    January 22, 2020 |

    Colorado Trust |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    In Denver, Colorado, one homeless shelter is using trauma-informed design to make residents feel more at home and less likely to sleep outside. Architects building Sanderson Apartments considered past traumas when choosing the layout, colors, furniture, and building materials. As a result, the physical environment is helping with the recovery process.

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  • A Vision for a Just recovery - La Marana's work Post Hurricane Maria

    January 20, 2020 |

    New Haven Independent |

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    Response Location: United States, Puerto Rico

    La Maraña, a nonprofit in Puerto Rico, created a model for how communities could recover from disasters like the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria in 2017. By including community voices in the design and planning process of recovery projects — which can focus on water, food, energy, roads, communication, or security — the organization hopes the projects are more likely to succeed and promote longterm community civic engagement.

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  • This strategy helped stop murders, prosecutors say. But Kansas City police killed it

    January 19, 2020 |

    The Kansas City Star |

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    Response Location: United States, Kansas City, Missouri

    Within a year of its creation, a state-federal collaboration to reduce gun violence in Kansas City seemed to result in a deep decline in killings. But the program, called Kansas City No Violence Alliance, collapsed by 2019 after police pulled their support. The program's approach, called focused deterrence, has been proven effective in multiple studies in other cities. But an analysis of the program in Kansas City found multiple failures in consistently getting targeted people to attend call-ins, where they are threatened with arrest if they commit violence but offered social services to choose another path.

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  • The Netherlands has universal health insurance — and it's all private

    January 17, 2020 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: Netherlands

    Health care in the Netherlands relies heavily on the collaboration, cooperation, and shared responsibility between private markets and government regulations to achieve affordable, consistent, and quality care for patients. Although the system is not without its limitations, this process has helped the country avoid preventable deaths while also guaranting nearly all residents insurance.

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  • Can You Cure a Domestic Abuser?

    January 17, 2020 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Duluth, Iowa

    Duluth’s Domestic Abuse Intervention Project has served for decades as a model for men’s counseling groups that courts often mandate in lieu of incarceration after abuse leads to criminal charges. But a deep look at its methods, which are rooted in challenging men’s patriarchal views and pushing them to take responsibility for their behavior, shows that its rejection of other behavioral influences calls into question its entire approach to truly solving the problem. A solid body of research finds the approach minimally effective, at best, and that other forms of group therapy can be more effective.

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  • Taiwan's single-payer success story — and its lessons for America

    January 13, 2020 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: Taiwan

    Taiwan's single-payer health care model has helped to guarantee health care access to everyone in the country, no matter their socioeconomic status, geographical location or pre-exisitng conditions. Although the model evolved from a once-broken system, the idea of "one national health insurance plan, run by the government, covering everybody" quickly grew in popularity due to its simplicity, comprehensive benefit structure, and relatively low and consistent premiums.

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  • Minneapolis Activists Ask Local Leaders to Invest in Communities, Not Cops

    January 09, 2020 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    In Minneapolis, Minnesota, a coalition of organizers and community members called Reclaim the Block advocates for divestment from the city's police force and into more community-based initiatives and services. Advocates for the group argue that rather than solving issues like homelessness, opioid addiction, and mental health crises, policing can actually make the situation worse off. The broad coalition successfully petitioned the city to move funds out of the police force and into the newly created Office of Violence Prevention.

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  • Reduce Health Costs By Nurturing The Sickest? A Much-Touted Idea Disappoints

    January 08, 2020 |

    NPR |

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    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Camden, New Jersey

    Researchers in New Jersey have been testing the idea that an increased specialized care model directed towards the sickest and most expensive patients would help reduce costs and improve health, but the trials have been less than promising. However, it was in the failures of the approach, that researchers learned that creating broader partnerships and addressing underlying issues for the patients may have been the missing key.

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  • How Philadelphia Flipped: Second Chances for Youth

    January 08, 2020 |

    YR Media |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia has made a concerted effort toward reducing the number of youth being arrested in schools. Leadership, including the school police commissioner and district attorney, changed procedures so that youth, instead of getting arrested, are enrolled in diversion programs. While there’s been pushback from some law enforcement, early studies have pointed to a decline in arrests without a decline in safety.

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