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  • Want to Fix U.S. Schools? Look to Native American Communities

    August 10, 2016 |

    Equal Voice News |

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    Response Location: United States, Albuquerque, New Mexico

    Native American students are 237% more likely to drop out than their white counterparts. Organizations like the Native American Community Academy (NACA), are changing those statistics by creating curricula that focus on tribal identity values. These alterations have proved successful as graduation rates and college attendance have risen among Native American students attending NACA.

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  • A community curbs pain pill abuse, but heroin addiction grows

    August 08, 2016 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Alamosa, Colorado

    The over-prescription of pain medicine has been a problem in southwest Colorado. Collective efforts of health care providers to standardize opioid prescriptions, clinics to expand recovery programs, and law enforcement to encourage addicts to enter rehab rather than prison, have reduced over-prescriptions of pain medications. However, they also could be unintentionally causing a rise in heroin use.

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  • The surprisingly simple economic case for giving refugees cash, not stuff

    August 07, 2016 |

    Quartz |

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    Response Location: Jordan, Amman

    In the Middle East, refugee camps are expensive to run-- particularly because shipping food aid is expensive, and the refugees feel victimized in an environment where they have no agency or purchasing power. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees has moved refugees in Jordan out of camps and has given cash instead of in-kind aid, and new possibilities emerge with mobile money by the aid of new technology. The results have shown that refugees feel more empowered and the costs associated with their aid are reduced.

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  • How Did we Save the Ozone Layer?

    August 02, 2016 |

    BBC |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Poland

    CFCs, chemicals created in the early 20th century, were an industrial success but destroyed the atmosphere. How a group of environmentalists, scientists, and lawyers in the 70s/80s raised public awareness which ultimately led to the most successful treaty ever, banning CFCs.

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  • Inside Rio's favelas, the city's impoverished, neglected neighborhoods

    August 01, 2016 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro

    Favelas, what some people might perceive as gang-filled slums surrounding the developed part of Rio de Janeiro, are in fact brimming with creative resilience that demonstrates the ingenuity of people in the face of a government that turns its back on them. Though gangs do exist, there are photographers attempting to show all views of the city. One man has transformed a trash hill into a garden. Others have built governing authorities to support their neighborhoods. All these people continue to innovate in the face of daily challenges.

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  • Chronically Absent: Is Quality Education in Juvenile Detention Possible in Mississippi?

    July 27, 2016 |

    Jackson Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Pelahatchie, Mississippi

    Many years of work to improve juvenile-detention centers in Mississippi may curb recidivism rates by increasing the quality of life in detention. Despite those efforts, however, centers might still be unable to give detained students what they need the most—a quality education.

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  • How Malawi Girls Combat Sexual Abuse – Self Defense

    July 26, 2016 |

    News Deeply |

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    Response Location: Malawi, Dedza

    Sexual abuse and rape are frequent and accepted parts of the social fabric in Malawi. To combat that, Malawi girls and boys take self defense classes to learn how to avert assault in order to protect themselves and others.

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  • After the Violence and Videos, Therapists Learn to Treat Racial Trauma

    July 22, 2016 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Louisville, Kentucky

    Black communities are often left without adequate counseling services when faced with racial trauma, but clinical psychologists are working to address this. So far, solutions include opening clinics that specialize in African-American mental health and social media campaigns focused on normalizing conversations around mental health awareness in the Black community.

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  • Roanoke initiative shifts from arresting addicts to helping them

    July 21, 2016 |

    The Roanoke Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Roanoke, Virginia

    In one year, the drug overdoses in Roanoke, VA have taken 12 lives and another 76 have overdosed but survived. The police department developed a new program called the Roanoke Valley Hope Initiative, designed to provide rehabilitation without arrest for those who seek it. The program simulates the successful national effort to help drug abusers instead of incarcerating them.

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  • Health officials are trying to curtail violence by treating trauma, but the people who need help most are not seeking it

    July 16, 2016 |

    The Baltimore Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Baltimore and other cities saw an increase in violence and individuals repeatedly ending up in the hospital with serious injuries, which mass jailing did not solve, leading to the creation of Shock Trauma's Violence Intervention program. This program's specialist-Ross assesses and tries to convince victims of violence to enter the program which helps them deal with their past trauma in order not to retaliate and instigate more violence, for those who engage in the program it is quite successful.

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