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Fire Returned: Fire is for everyone

Sarah Bohannon

June 13, 2022 |

North State Public Radio |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Butte County, California

The Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (TREX) brings people together to learn how to conduct controlled and prescribed burns to prevent explosive wildfires. The organization also works with local prescribed burning associations to enhance their capacity to conduct trainings in local communities and strengthen collaboration with local landowners. Part of the group’s curriculum includes lessons on ecology more broadly as well as the cultural importance of prescribed burning in indigenous communities.

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Yasmine Mustafa gives healthcare workers a tool for workplace safety

Lauren McCutcheon

June 07, 2022 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

ROAR for Good developed a wearable, wireless panic button that, when worn by healthcare workers at an inpatient acute care and behavioral center, reduced violent incidents by 39% over one year. The wearable button is coded when an employee clocks in and, when pressed, alerts the closest person who can help, including security guards trained in de-escalation. The button gets pressed once every few days and costs $1 to $2 per employee per day over a five-year period. The button also led to a 20% increase in employee satisfaction over the year.

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Vote for everyone you like — Fargo tests approval voting

Dan Gunderson

June 06, 2022 |

MPR News |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Fargo, North Dakota

Fargo adopted ‘approval voting’ where residents can vote for as many candidates as they support per race. They do not rank order their choices, but simply select as many candidates as they like essentially voting ‘yes’ or ‘no’ for each candidate. All choices on a voter’s ballot carry equal weight and vote percentages are calculated by dividing a candidate’s total votes by the total number of ballots cast. The strategy has increased the percent by which winning candidates are selected and helps candidates who in the past would have received few votes because they weren’t seen as having a chance to win.

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The struggle to help LGBTQ foster youth aging-out of the system with housing continues in Sacramento

Ken Magri

May 25, 2022 |

Sacramento News & Review |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

The Fostering Connections to Success Act was designed to help aged-out foster children in need of housing for up to three years. Foster children can choose whether they want to continue living with their foster parents, another guardian or transition into an apartment or college dorm. There’s a group of twelve specialized social workers who work closely with foster care youth to create Transitional Independent Living Plans, which help these aged-out youths transition into housing.

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Happier Employees, Higher Profits: Covid's Surprising Lesson for Restaurants

Matthew Sedacca

May 19, 2022 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: United States, Los Alamos, California

During the COVID-19 pandemic, owners of the French bistro Bell's took a financial risk and began investing more money in their employees to incentivize working, increase employee satisfaction and retention and overall drive more profits. The decision has since paid off and is reimagining the traditional restaurant structure.

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A dose of climate optimism from Va. collaborative

Elizabeth McGowan

May 19, 2022 |

Energy News Network |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Charlottesville, Virginia

The Community Climate Collaborative is working to wean local businesses from fossil fuels. 16 members of the Green Business Alliance pledged last spring to cut their carbon pollution by 45% by the end of 2025. The Alliance is more than halfway there — already achieving a 28% reduction.

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Succour for Nigerian Persons with Albinism

Laz Eze

May 19, 2022 |

TalkHealth9Ja-TV |

Video |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Nigeria

The Albino Foundation in Nigeria connects people with albinism to hospitals and government funding for expensive skin cancer treatments.

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Tackling the supply side of the EMS shortage

Alex Sakariassen

May 18, 2022 |

Montana Free Press |

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Response Location: United States, Missoula, Montana

To combat the EMS shortage exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, a collaboration between a college and emergency services department is working to train paramedics by providing students access to high-end facilities, instructors, and experiences. Similar programs have popped up around the country, specifically in rural areas where the EMS shortage is even more apparent.

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Trying to Help Survivors, a Domestic Violence Agency Turns the Focus

Claudia Boyd-Barrett

May 17, 2022 |

California Health Report |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, California

Positive Services is an intensive program that works with people responsible for domestic violence with the aim of addressing the root causes for their behavior patterns and in turn, providing them an opportunity to change. The program is run by the non-profit Monarch Services and is part of a growing movement in California wherein advocates for domestic violence survivors and law makers are looking at more humane and holistic approaches to address the issue.

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Cognitive behavior therapy takes work, but can prevent gun violence

Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

May 11, 2022 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

Roca uses cognitive behavior therapy with young people at risk of committing violence in order to interrupt the cycle of violence and change how the individuals react to different situations. Roca teaches people skills to slow down, think differently about a situation, and respond in a way that deescalates violence. The organization was successful in Massachusetts, with 84% of those staying in the program for two to four years not having any additional arrests and 98% having no new incarcerations, and has since expanded to Baltimore.

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