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  • Hard up for students, more colleges are offering college credit for life experience, or 'prior learning'

    July 10, 2025 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    Some colleges and universities, such as the Community College of Allegheny County, are expanding opportunities for students to earn academic credit for previous work and life experience, allowing them to bypass some courses and requirements covering skills they've already learned on the job. According to one study, these programs can result in significant tuition savings and help students cut down on the time it takes to finish a degree.

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  • How local homelessness advocacy groups are providing medical care without boundaries

    July 09, 2025 |

    StreetWise |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Street medicine is breaking down barriers to healthcare access that unhoused individuals face. It brings healthcare directly to them, rather than expecting them to navigate the system on their own. This type of care emerged in Pittsburgh in 1992 and has since created a national network of 85 U.S. cities, 15 countries and five continents. Chicago Street Medicine, specifically, serves about 4,000 patients a year, with the help of its 600 volunteers.

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  • Women are leading menstrual dialogue in Nepal – and in the process, challenging the status quo

    July 02, 2025 |

    Missing Perspectives |

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    Response Location: Nepal

    be artsy's Rato Baltin project uses culturally relevant education, menstrual kit distribution, and engages religious leaders to challenge discriminatory practices against those who menstruate. Since launching in 2017, the group has reached 80,000 people and distributed over 5,500 menstrual cups, while simultaneously helping shift perspectives around menstruating.

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  • Beneath the blazing sun, Black Phoenix sows community

    July 01, 2025 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    In Phoenix's historically Black neighborhoods, community organizations have transformed vacant, heat-trapping lots into thriving urban farms. One initiative, Spaces of Opportunity, converted a 19-acre abandoned site into a community farm with 250 garden plots available. Spaces of Opportunity serves over 1,000 residents each month, and other community farming initiatives also help in providing food and jobs for participants, many of whom are formerly incarcerated or unhoused.

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  • How Anambra Is Transforming Primary Healthcare Through Telemedicine

    June 26, 2025 |

    Radio Nigeria |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Anambra

    Anambra State’s telemedicine program is closing the healthcare access gap in rural communities, making universal health coverage more possible. The program began in 2022 and has since hired and trained 42 doctors in providing remote healthcare. As more people use the telemedicine program, public trust in primary healthcare across the region is increasing.

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  • Nevada tribe is bridging the healthcare gap with a mobile clinic that serves 2,000 tribal patients

    June 25, 2025 |

    KUNR |

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    Response Location: Paiute Tribe, United States, Lovelock, Nevada

    The Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe’s mobile health clinic makes healthcare more accessible to those in a region where traveling to hospitals or doctor offices is often a challenge. Funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the mobile clinic has served around 2,000 patients, averaging about 20 each month.

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  • Youth mental health? There's an app — many apps — for that. But are they effective?

    June 16, 2025 |

    Capital News Service Maryland |

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    Response Location: United States, Maryland

    Some youth are using mental health apps to supplement therapy or help them manage their emotions, making mental health care more accessible. While there are limitations regarding the apps’ regulations and validity, some research has found that mental health apps have moderately reduced anxiety, depression and suicide risk among the youth who use them.

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  • One Community Took a Radical Approach to Fighting Addiction. It's Working.

    June 15, 2025 |

    Wall Street Journal |

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    Response Location: United States, Chesterfield, Virginia

    Chesterfield County, Virginia implemented a multi-faceted response to the opioid crisis, including a jail-based recovery program, Helping Addicts Recover Progressively (HARP), that brings people in recovery to the local jail to talk about addiction and treatment resources. Combined with other efforts, overdose deaths have dropped by half in a single year, and around 4,000 people have participated in HARP.

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  • Prison Reform Left Women Behind. Then Prosecutors Stepped In.

    June 13, 2025 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Chowchilla, California

    For the People identifies eligible cases for California’s resentencing law, conducts outreach to incarcerated women, reviews applications, and makes referrals to prosecutor resentencing units in participating counties in an effort to address the gender gap in resentencing cases. The program has helped resentence about 1,000 people, including three women, and is being implemented in five other states.

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  • Huertos de autonomía: mujeres que siembran futuro

    June 12, 2025 |

    Bálsamo TV |

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    Response Location: El Salvador

    Las escuelas agrícolas agroecológicas implementadas por ACUA y tres asociaciones de mujeres (AMC, AMP, AMH) constituyen un programa integral que combina formación técnica en agricultura orgánica con empoderamiento femenino y desarrollo de autonomía económica, utilizando una metodología "campesino a campesino." Más de 685 mujeres rurales en cuatro distritos de El Salvador ahora puedan generar ingresos propios, alimentar a sus familias de manera saludable y fortalecer su liderazgo comunitario mientras cultivan en tierras propias o alquiladas sin uso de químicos.

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