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  • A West Virginia town uses Iceland's model to keep kids away from drugs and alcohol

    May 10, 2022 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Iceland

    To address a major teen drinking problem, Iceland began pushing teens toward joining clubs and organizations and participating in outdoor recreation like fishing and skating. As a result, the percentage of teens who got drunk at least once a month dropped from 45% to just 5% and similar practices are picking up speed in other areas, like West Virginia.

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  • 'Deliberative town halls' encourage civil dialogue, OSU institute says

    May 10, 2022 |

    WKSU |

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    Response Location: United States, Ohio

    The Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability's "deliberative town halls" pair willing lawmakers with a random, representative sample of constituents so voters can share feedback and ask questions without being drowned out by the loudest voices in political spaces. All participants are given the same background materials created by a nonpartisan source to inform their discussion, which means there's no squabbling over establishing basic facts, and politicians must adapt to the natural flow of conversation rather than relying on canned talking points.

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  • One Square Meal a Day – Home-Grown Feeding Programme Keeping Niger State Children in School

    May 09, 2022 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Niger

    The Home-Grown School Feeding Program provides one square meal a day to students in public primary schools in an effort to combat poor school attendance and malnutrition, feeding thousands of students each day. In addition to improving the economic conditions for farmers and food vendors, as well as rates of malnutrition, the program has led to a 35.6% increase in school enrollment.

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  • What Unions Are Doing to Protect American Democracy

    May 06, 2022 |

    The New Republic |

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    Response Location: United States, Arizona

    Unite Here, a 300,000-member labor union of hotel and restaurant workers, has organized mass protests to pass voting rights legislation. In 2020 they ran a huge door-knocking operation with 500 full-time paid canvassers. The weekly salary helped canvassers, many of whom were hotel workers that lost their jobs due to the pandemic. And the well-organized ground campaign that encouraged over 48,000 infrequent voters in Arizona to vote for Biden, likely helped push Biden to a narrow and surprising victory in that state.

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  • One fact check at a time: Asian Americans wage war on digital misinformation

    May 04, 2022 |

    The Yappie |

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    Response Location: United States

    Fact checking and media literacy organizations are taking on the misinformation wars rampant on social media. A number of Asian-American groups are concerned about the growing falsehoods that pervade “ethnic media platforms where Asian immigrants connect.” These groups have created fact checking campaigns that have attracted high volume online, produced newsletters in multiple languages, and created a bilingual COVID-19 tracker.

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  • Paid training, tuition assistance may be key to solving New York's nursing home staffing crisis

    May 04, 2022 |

    WBFO |

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    Response Location: United States, Buffalo, New York

    In an effort to boost staff and retain current healthcare workers, Catholic Health and McGuire Group's nursing homes are working with D’Youville University to fund the education of those interested in becoming a certified nursing assistant (CNA). Participants are paid for their time spent training and taking courses and are guaranteed a job once they complete the program. Catholic Health and the McGuire Group hired 29 CNAs from the program in 2022 across its nine nursing homes in the Western part of the state.

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  • How cellphones transformed life in a women's prison in Argentina

    May 03, 2022 |

    Rest of World |

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    Response Location: Argentina, Buenos Aires

    As Argentine went into strict quarantine in March 2020 and prison rules got stricter, the Court of Appeals in the Province of Buenos Aires allowed the use of cellphones to inmates to ease some of their isolation. It is one of four provinces that legally implemented this measure to last the span of COVID restrictions, but the ruling is still in place and has allowed inmates to keep in touch with loved ones, study, learn new skills, use digital payments, and even participate in virtual protests,

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  • Finding affordable mental-health care getting easier with reforms, new programs

    April 30, 2022 |

    MLive.com |

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    Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

    New Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics provide mental health services to all residents with a diagnosed mental health condition. Fees are based on income and insurance coverage, using a sliding scale discount program to help remove the financial barriers that often prevent those in need from seeking care.

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  • From prison to freedom: How a firm is helping detainees get justice

    April 30, 2022 |

    International Centre for Investigative Reporting |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    The Headfort Foundation runs pro bono cases for incarcerated people in need of legal representation. The Foundation recently launched a Lawyers Without Borders initiative that grants easily accessible, free legal services to those in need by setting up mobile offices. This initiative alone has helped more than 175 people thus far.

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  • More Public Defense Spending

    April 28, 2022 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    The Defender Association of Philadelphia practices community-oriented public defense — also known as "holistic defense" — to connect clients with support services and resources that help address the root causes of crimes. The association works with social workers, investigators, and paralegals to get clients access to housing, food, jobs, and healthcare, as well as mental health and substance use treatment, with more than 150 people referred to treatment providers between September 2016 and January 2017.

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