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Regional Shelter Offers Opportunity for Reclaimed Lives

Angela Mapes Turner

February 13, 2023 |

Fort Wayne Media Collaborative |

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Response Location: United States, Auburn, Indiana

Fortify Life takes a holistic approach to addressing homelessness and also provides emergency and long-term stays in a renovated motel for people experiencing homelessness. Long-term guests participate in a micropayment program that teaches them how to budget and become financially self-sufficient. Since 2021, Fortify Life has helped 179 families with emergency or transitional housing.

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Nuns' social work schools form church workers for 'justice-based society' in India

Thomas Scaria

February 13, 2023 |

Global Sisters Report |

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Response Location: India

The Daughters of the Heart of Mary work to train people within the church, specifically nuns and priests, to become social workers. The group came to India in 1951, and currently teaches about 600 students in both bachelor's and master's courses in social work, as well as counseling and psychology.

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Mississippi Evangelicals Prepare to Welcome Dobbs Babies

Adam MacInnis

February 13, 2023 |

Christianity Today |

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Response Location: United States, Mississippi

Embrace Grace is a 12-week program that supports single parents and women facing unplanned pregnancies and works to coach churches to be more accepting and open their doors and their hearts to those in need, specifically in the wake of the Dobbs. V. Jackson and Roe v. Wade overturn. There are currently about 20 churches across the state involved in the program.

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Algunos latinos no confían en la salud mental occidental. Por eso buscan a los curanderos.

Karen Garcia

February 12, 2023 |

Los Angeles Times |

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Response Location: United States, California

Con nuevas colaboraciones entre curanderas, universidades y comunidades de profesionales de la medicina, el curanderismo está ayudando a la salud mental de los latinos (quienes no buscan terapia u otro tipo de apoyo de salud mental en las mismas proporciones que otros grupos raciales o étnicos). Aunque es difícil medir definitivamente los beneficios médicos de la curación espiritual, si hay datos afirmando que los latinos suelen recurrir a los curanderos para una amplia gama de necesidades, como el trastorno de estrés postraumático, los nervios, el susto, la depresión y el asesoramiento espiritual.

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Driven by his own experience, this young Nigerian started an NGO to rescue street children

Arinze Chijioke

February 12, 2023 |

IkengaOnline |

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Response Location: Nigeria

Street Priests Incorporated engages with youth living on the streets in Nigeria to offer them scholarship funding, food aid, reunification with their families, and more. The organization has helped more than 17,000 children through its programs since 2014.

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Can Monthly Cash Payments Make Our Economy More Equitable?

Sonali Kolhatkar

February 11, 2023 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Guaranteed income programs aim to reduce poverty by providing cash to those in need with no strings attached. One of these programs in New York City, The Bridge Project, focuses on helping women of color who are mothers.

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Free ACs staved off heat illness for older New Yorkers during pandemic

Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky

February 10, 2023 |

Gothamist |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

The Get Cool NYC program distributed air conditioner units to about 73,000 low-income seniors without access to ways to keep cool during the first summer of the COVID-19 pandemic. Studies show that those who participated in the program were less likely to experience heat-related illness than those who didn’t participate.

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These prosthetics break the mold with third thumbs, spikes, and superhero skins

Joanna Thompson

February 10, 2023 |

MIT Technology Review |

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Response Location: United States

Custom, designer prosthetics that serve purposes in both function and fashion are beginning to reform the prosthetics industry, allowing people to express themselves and embrace their bodies in new ways. Researchers, developers, and larger businesses are constantly innovating to create new prosthetics that can meet a person’s every need and other companies are working to make prosthetic covers more accessible so anyone can afford the option to personalize their look.

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A Chicago Mural Project Becomes a Nationwide Movement

Martha Contreras

February 09, 2023 |

Borderless Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

The Mural Movement uses the power of art as a tool to help Black and brown communities heal when grappling with gun violence and racism. The group works with artists who create murals of victims of gun violence and now has 186 murals nationwide.

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One state looks to get kids in crisis out of the ER — and back home

Martha Bebinger

February 09, 2023 |

NPR |

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Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

Home-based counseling services, like those provided by Youth Villages, help relieve understaffed hospitals struggling with boarding delays for patients experiencing a mental health crisis. Of the 536 children and teens who have opted to try these diversion services, 82% have not returned to the ER for mental health concerns and 92% have met their treatment goals or were referred for further treatment services.

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