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  • How Vermont Is Winning the COVID Vaccination War

    Susan Milligan

    November 11, 2021 |

    USA Today |

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    Response Location: United States, Vermont

    A centralized communication and record keeping system, along with ensuring convenience for the largely rural population, led Vermont to the highest COVID-19 vaccination rate nationwide. The centralized system keeps track of data and provides consistent guidance. Trusted messengers, like first responders, local pharmacists, and nonprofits like the Association of Africans Living in Vermont, provide culturally competent information that eases hesitancy. Along with mass-vaccination events, house calls and pop-up clinics at small businesses and local events made getting vaccinated convenient and comfortable.

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  • Can this Alabama school beat the clock and help more students read?

    Rebecca Griesbach

    November 10, 2021 |

    AL.com (Alabama Media Group) |

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    Response Location: United States, Dothan, Alabama

    Rehobeth Elementary School provides extra attention from trained educators with experience in literacy instructional methods to help students make up for COVID-19 related reading-level declines. The school-wide intervention provides a core class where students get most of their lessons, smaller groups where students work on specific skills, and some students are identified for outside tutoring as well. The research-based learning materials can also help students with learning disabilities. Rehobeth second graders had improved reading scores by 60 points in one school year.

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  • Meet the amazing people rewriting the narrative about LGBTQ youth homelessness

    Sam Manzella

    November 10, 2021 |

    LGBTQ Nation |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The Ali Forney Center is the largest of several organizations across the country serving LGBTQ youth experiencing homelessness. It has seventeen sites and serves about 2,000 young people a year, nearly half of whom come from out of state. In addition to setting people up with stable housing, the drop-in center serves daily meals and offers showers and laundry. Advocacy programs and case managers help the youth find permanent jobs, further their education, or put funds aside to secure stable long-term housing. They also offer counseling services, support groups, and temporary employment for many young people.

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  • Lessons from a 'violence interrupter' as shootings continue to ravage Chicago

    Deena Zaru

    November 09, 2021 |

    ABC News (American Broadcasting Company) |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Programs like UCAN Chicago use "violence interrupters" to mediate disputes before they turn violent and to connect people at risk of violence to the services that will give them a chance at a more stable, peaceful life. Decades after CeaseFire Chicago established this street-outreach approach to violence prevention, the work has been conducted mainly by former gang members and formerly incarcerated people with the credibility to reach the right people. Research on its effectiveness is mixed but promising, though the resources don't come close to meeting the need. This story profiles one Chicago worker.

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  • Donostia: Egia together with the homeless

    Néstor Rodríguez

    November 03, 2021 |

    Noticias De Gipuzkoa |

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    Response Location: Spain, Donostia

    A group of volunteers came together to feed young people, mostly immigrants, living on the streets. Around 40 residents of Egia began cooking hot meals to serve to people in a local community square. Two volunteers are responsible for cooking each day and many more help distribute the food. Local businesses, like a bakery, donate food and help raise funds to sustain the program, which is largely paid for by the residents themselves. The program started small, with just a few residents bringing hot meals to the square to feed a few people, and has since scaled up.

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  • Thousands of Alaskans are considering suicide. You can learn to help them choose life.

    Anne Hillman

    November 03, 2021 |

    Alaska Public Media |

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    Response Location: United States, Anchorage, Alaska

    To address Alaska’s high suicide rates, especially among youth, programs like the Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training teaches people how to safely and confidently talk about suicide. The two-day training provides steps people can use to talk with others about suicide, dispel any shame around the topic, and develop a safety plan with them. The main idea is not to solve all of their problems, but to keep the person safe now. The training combines conversations, videos, PowerPoints and roleplaying to teach the steps, based on a global model developed by LivingWorks 35 years ago in Canada.

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  • REACH: Taking Quality Healthcare to Communities in Kano State

    Bashar Abubakar

    November 01, 2021 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

    REACH (“Reaching Everyone with Accessible Community Health”) provides preventive and curative healthcare through a community-based health insurance initiative that offers different packages of care. Community members pay a monthly fee for the insurance, which gives them access to treatment for all ailments including prescription medicines. About 11,000 people are served locally by 22 community health workers but are referred to health clinics and hospitals for more serious issues. Partnerships with pharmaceutical companies and the nonprofit arm of a local clinic helps make treatment costs affordable.

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  • How Baltimore Escaped the Worst of Covid-19

    Michael Ollove

    November 01, 2021 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    The city of Baltimore escaped the worst of COVID-19 with high vaccination rates, high rates of health coverage, and strong support from political leaders who cooperated across ideological lines. Medicaid expansion helped achieve relatively high health insurance rates. Officials were also a bit more and cautious in reopening businesses and schools and relaxing mask requirements. The city didn’t escape the death and illness seen during the pandemic, but for these reasons it fared better than comparable areas.

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  • Is Abiyamo Scheme To The Rescue For Ondo Women After Abiye's Exit?

    Shola Ilesanmi

    October 29, 2021 |

    The Precision NG |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Ondo

    The Abiyamo Maternal and Child Health Insurance Scheme provides free maternal and early childhood care, including hospital deliveries, to improve maternal and childhood survival rates. The government made a budgetary provision to guarantee annual funds, ensuring the program will last beyond the current administration. Traditional birth attendants are paid for every woman they refer to a hospital and hospitals are paid via a lump sum or fee-for-service model. Media campaigns and engagement with local stakeholders have helped increase hospital deliveries and while giving women free high-quality care.

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  • Armed with pamphlets: the battle to register women voters in Libya

    Hendia Alashepy

    October 29, 2021 |

    The National |

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    Response Location: Libya

    Libya’s Electoral Outreach Ambassadors program aims to increase women’s trust in the political process and register new voters. The female ambassadors are experienced in civil society participation but are not affiliated with any political or religious group, which is key to building trust given the country’s recent civil war. Ambassadors are trained in many tactics and left to tailor their own strategy so that it is best suited for their own district. Outreach efforts include a combination of house visits, workshops in private and public institutions, and talks with women in public spaces.

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