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  • The opportunity gap should close, so Boston schools seek answers

    June 20, 2024 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Dorchester, Massachusetts

    To help close achievement and opportunity gaps for marginalized students, schools like Joseph Lee K-8 School are trying to take a more holistic approach to education, offering services and supports that help address the barriers students face outside of the classroom. The school has a free store with essential goods, an occupational therapist, mental health counselors, and a coordinator from an organization called City Connects whose goal is to evaluate students’ needs and help them get access to support, from Medicaid benefits to stable housing.

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  • At the independent schools in Boston, parents offer solutions

    June 20, 2024 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Community schools such as Paige Academy and Roxbury Roots build on a long legacy of independent schools that sprouted as a way to better serve Black students who were often left behind by the public school system. Families say their children are able to be more engaged and at ease in a culturally competent environment that pays close attention to students’ needs.

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  • An experiment doled out money to homeless people in Denver, no strings attached. Here's what happened.  

    June 19, 2024 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    The Denver Basic Income Project provided people experiencing homelessness with no-strings-attached monthly stipends that they could spend however they’d like. At the end of the pilot, twice as many participants were in stable housing, more of them were working full time, and the nights that participants spent in shelters decreased by half.

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  • Denver Basic Income Project shares results after one year of cash payments to homeless Denverites

    June 18, 2024 |

    The Denver Gazette |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    The Denver Basic Income Project has provided more than $9.4 million in no-strings-attached payments to over 800 people experiencing homelessness. The nonprofit gives participants monthly stipends that they can spend however they see fit. As a result, more participants are finding housing, building financial stability, and finding stable employment.

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  • Montana Creates Emergency ‘Drive-Thru' Blood Pickup Service for Rural Ambulances

    June 17, 2024 |

    KFF Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Montana

    The Montana Interfacility Blood Network allows ambulance crews to pick up blood from area hospitals to transfuse to patients on the way to get the advanced care they need to prevent death or permanent brain injury en route to the emergency room. The Network is primarily for rural patients who face elevated rates of traumatic injury and have less access to healthcare. Since launching in 2022, the Network has helped three patients.

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  • When Is a Tiny House Too Small to Be a Home?

    June 15, 2024 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Tiny home complexes are emerging as solutions to combat homelessness throughout the country, offering a cheap and efficient way to provide shelter amidst the national housing crisis. In some cases, living in a tiny home community serves as a stepping stone to help locals achieve permanent housing.

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  • Inside the Hausa edtech platform bridging the language divide for Africans

    June 11, 2024 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    The online education platform Flowdiary is bridging a language gap in the industry by offering training courses in Hausa, so young people in Hausa-speaking communities across Africa can learn the necessary skills for a career in technology.

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  • Planning Parenthood for Incarcerated Men

    June 10, 2024 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Orange County, California

    Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties hosts workshops for incarcerated youth to teach them about sexual wellness, as well as the elements of healthy relationships, consent and the consequences of toxic masculinity. The workshops educate young men so they can have the knowledge they — and their partners — need to have better health outcomes. The workshops began in 2013 and expect to reach about 300 incarcerated teens and young men by the end of June as they continue expanding.

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  • Why a drug treatment tool to protect Missouri kids is underutilized in the St. Louis area

    June 10, 2024 |

    St. Louis Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    Temporary Alternative Placement Agreements (TAPA) allow parents struggling with addiction to enter a drug-treatment program and connect them with parenting resources and support to help them maintain custody of their children. Under a TAPA parents have a say in who their children stay with while they're seeking treatment, rather than losing custody altogether. Participants say TAPAs are far less traumatic and help hold them accountable as they’re required to sign an agreement to uphold at the start of the program.

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  • Free air conditioners available again in Pa. through utility assistance program

    June 10, 2024 |

    WHYY |

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    Response Location: United States, Pennsylvania

    Pennsylvania uses funding from the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program to provide air-conditioning units and repair units for people who would otherwise be unable to afford them.

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