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  • Speech club helps Utah prison inmates tell their stories

    December 09, 2019 |

    The Salt Lake Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Draper, Utah

    At Utah State Prison, the New Visions Speech Club is teaching inmates public speaking. The club gives inmates the opportunity to practice communication and bolster their confidence – two skills that can help them in the long run. While there hasn’t been any evidence between the club and decreased recidivism, those that participate have said how its helped them express themselves in parole hearings and job interviews.

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  • For Veterans in Jail, This Anti-Violence Workshop Provides Support

    December 09, 2019 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Tacoma, Washington

    The Alternatives to Violence Project, an international nonprofit, provides workshops around conflict resolution, personal growth, and other social skills to people experiencing incarceration. While a large-scale organization, individual prisons have the agency to implement the workshops. In Washington’s Pierce county, they tailor their workshops for veterans experiencing incarceration, teaching community-building, self-reflection, listening, and de-programming aggression and violence.

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  • In Search of the Lost Pulse

    December 07, 2019 |

    DoR |

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    Response Location: Romania, Sibiu, Transylvania

    A private healthcare facility in Romania is helping to bring specialty surgeries to the region's children by arranging for doctors from other parts of the nation and world to convene on a rotating, but regular, basis. The surgeons, many of whom specialize in pediatric corrective surgery for congenital heart defects, perform hundreds of surgeries per year financed by the Polisano Foundation.

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  • Counseling minus the counselor

    December 06, 2019 |

    The Beacon Today |

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    Response Location: United States, Florida

    Online counseling websites that utilize the practice of cognitive behavioral therapy are helping teenagers and young adults access services they may need during challenging times. Psychologists do caution that these aren't replacements for face-to-face therapy, but that they do help when in-person options are not available or feasible.

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  • Can CA Reduce Homelessness Through Better Prevention?

    December 06, 2019 |

    Southern California Public Radio (KPCC) |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    In California, concerns due to ever-increasing numbers of people experiencing homelessness is prompting state and city leaders to emulate strategies from New York and Chicago. Many of those strategies, like call centers, emphasize preventing homelessness in the first place by focusing on vulnerable individuals and families and linking them to emergency aid to help them avoid evictions.

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  • This unique program is helping people who care for their loved ones with dementia and more

    December 05, 2019 |

    Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    A Chicago-based program called Caring Together, Living Better is aiming to increase support to family members acting as caregivers for the elderly in their lives by providing resources directly in their churches. Focused primarily on minority communities, this creative collaboration uses trained volunteers to provide resources to those in attendance.

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  • Public Defender Turns to Texting System to Notify Clients of Santa Barbara County Court Appointments

    November 29, 2019 |

    Noozhawk |

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    Response Location: United States, Santa Barbara, California

    California’s Santa Barbara Public Defender’s office is working with the company, Upstart, to use a texting notification system to remind people about their court dates. Upstart costs $20K to set up and then $2 per client, but has worked with counties across the country and seen a 75% drop in failure-to-appear violations. For California, the Heising-Simons Foundations is funding its implementation in seven different counties.

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  • Ending the age of AIDS: What the U.S. can learn from Namibia

    November 29, 2019 |

    The GroundTruth Project |

    Multi-Media |

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    Response Location: Namibia

    In Namibia, a combination of data analysis and a community-centered approach are helping to reduce the rate of HIV infections and increase awareness around prevention methodologies. The approach has been so successful, that cities in the U.S., such as Atlanta, are considering how to implement similar strategies.

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  • Collective Reincorporation: The FARC's fading dream

    November 27, 2019 |

    Struggles from Below Magazine |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Dabeiba

    In an effort to reincorporate former guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the Colombian government created Territorial Training and Reincorporation Spaces (ETCRs) to allow partial autonomy for the guerrilla groups. Many of the ETCRs have created successful product businesses - from chicken farms to community gardens - but community members continue to leave, leaving the ETCRs looking to the government for continued support and land rights.

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  • Can Peer Support Programs Help Those Living With HIV Thrive?

    November 27, 2019 |

    Undark |

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    Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

    An organization aimed at providing peer support for gay black men living with HIV that started in Atlanta, Georgia has now gained an international following. Because the program is not federally funded, data can be difficult to gather; however, "self-reported data from its members including medication type and adherence, CD4 cell count, and demographic information" shows a significant increase in members adhering to their medical regimen.

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