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  • In a small Washington town with no youth shelters, one woman keeps kids off the streets

    November 26, 2018 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    The Mason County Housing Options for Students in Transition (HOST) program is filling the county's gap of youth shelters, helping almost 200 homeless youth graduate from high school through personal relationships and screened host families. The program has show particular success in helping homeless youth from marginalized identities, including youth of color and LGBTQ+ identifying youth.

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  • Home visits for new moms offer a more robust social safety net in Tulsa

    November 26, 2018 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Tulsa, Oklahoma

    The Birth Through Eight Strategy in Tulsa, Oklahoma offers social services, such as in-home postpartum visits, as a way to bridge the gap often created by the city’s social and racial divide. Not only does this impact the health of the family as a whole, but also serves as an educational opportunity for many of those involved.

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  • The for-profit company that turned around Maine's failing addiction treatment initiative

    November 26, 2018 |

    Bangor Daily News |

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    Response Location: United States, Maine

    Groups Recover Together is a for-profit clinic in Maine that helps treat people addicted to opioids. It prescribes buprenorphine, provides weekly counseling, and serves around 600 people a week at 60 clinics in the country. Its retention rates are well above the national average.

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  • Poisoned Wildlife and Tainted Meat: Why Hunters Are Moving Away From Lead Bullets

    November 24, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    An elk hunt in Oregon shows one way states regulate lead ammunition by prohibiting hunters from firing lead bullets in some state wildlife areas. It’s part of a wider effort to eradicate lead ammunition that can contaminate game animals as well as other species that scavenge their carcasses. Other states and the federal government have tried more widespread bans, but those have brought pushback, while alternative approaches include education and financial incentives to avoid lead ammunition.

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  • A school figures out how to educate foster youth

    November 24, 2018 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    A South Bronx charter school is trying an innovative approach to educating all students, including the one third of its student body in foster care. By adding teachers, behavioral specialists, and extra academic support and relying on a trauma-informed and repetitive structure, Mott Haven Charter School has gradually seen improvement, with its foster youth outperforming other children in the welfare system.

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  • Care package: the French postal workers helping lonely older people

    November 23, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: France

    France's postal office is combatting declining letter-writing by using their services to tackle another problem: the increasing number of elderly people living alone. With the new service "Watch Over my Parents," postal workers in rural France check in on the elderly and provide some company while delivering the mail - so far, the system serves 6,000 people, with an average age of 82 and a minimum cost of €20 per month.

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  • How a trip to Copenhagen inspired Tel Aviv's child-friendly reforms

    November 22, 2018 |

    Apolitical |

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    Response Location: Israel, Tel Aviv

    Sometimes you have to see something is possible before you can do it yourself. For Tel Aviv’s city officers, it took a trip to Copenhagen to understand that each of them, no matter their office, could do something to make their city better for young children.

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  • Health Experts Hope Dr. Rich Mahogany And ‘Man Therapy' Can Reduce Suicide In Men

    November 21, 2018 |

    KUNC |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    With suicide as a leading cause of death among adult men in Colorado, normalizing mental health care serves as an important step toward lowering suicide rates. Colorado’s Department of Public Health hopes that with a little bit of humor, awareness of crucial mental health resources can reach the populations most in need. The portrayal of a fictional, sometimes crass doctor in the Man Therapy videos has been licensed by several US states and internationally, as well.

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  • How 'fixing rooms' are saving the lives of drug addicts

    November 21, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Denmark

    In Denmark, drugs users can safely get high inside “drug consumption rooms.” One of those is Skyken, users have access to clean needles, are allowed 24 hour access, and nurses can treat overdoses with antidotes. Evidence shows these types of rooms reduce deaths. “Drug consumption rooms reduce the risk of fatal overdose, reduce public injecting, and increase access to health and treatment services.”

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  • The Gym Fighting Drug and Alcohol Addiction with Exercise

    November 20, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    A Phoenix gym uses CrossFit classes as an effective way to keep people in subustance use disorder recovery. The class provides non-judgmental support, community, and exercise all of which can have a beneficial effect reversing the impact of substance use on the brain.

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