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Brooklyn Nonprofits Tailor Mental Health Care To Their Immigrant Clients' Cultures

Rommel H. Ojeda

May 31, 2024 |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Nonprofits Mixteca, RaisingHealth, and Brave House are providing safe spaces for migrants to receive culturally relevant mental health care through workshops that incorporate cultural traditions and common mental health and self-care practices. The workshops help provide a sense of community and combat the stigma surrounding mental health in the immigrant community.

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Ideas We Should Steal: Free Childcare for Women's Health

Courtney Duchene

May 29, 2024 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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Response Location: United States, New Mexico

New Mexico’s Early Childhood Education and Care Fund provides free childcare for families who earn up to 400% of the federal poverty level and serves about 18,423 children a month. Access to free childcare has also impacted parent’s health, particularly mothers, as they’re often the ones taking time away from themselves and their jobs to handle the majority of childcare tasks.

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Revolution in the Soil: How One School is Responding to Food Insecurity

Latasha Rouseau

May 29, 2024 |

Sapelo Square |

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Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

A community garden is part of the curriculum at the Mohammed Schools of Atlanta to teach students how to grow their own food. Amid a food desert, the garden provides fresh food for the school cafeteria and produces enough that students can take crops home to their families each week.

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How cognitive behavioral intervention is reducing gun violence in Chicago

Patience Hurston

May 17, 2024 |

The Columbia Chronicle |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

The Institute for Nonviolence Chicago is working to reduce gun violence by reaching out to victims and perpetrators immediately after the violence. The organization negotiates peace and offers cognitive behavioral intervention services to help them develop strategies to keep negative emotions from turning into violent actions.

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The WPA-inspired, living wage program for artists offering much needed stability and support

Makeda Easter

May 08, 2024 |

The Art Rebellion |

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Response Location: United States

The workforce resilience program Artists at Work is helping artists continue focusing on their practice by providing them with a stipend, benefits, and stability. Participants are required to log their working hours, which must include working with a local social impact organization for about a third of their week alongside their own projects.

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Street to Class: NGO Provides Free Education, Transforms Lives

Toheeb Babalola

April 29, 2024 |

African Change Stories |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Magboro, Ogun State

Dolly Stars School is a tuition-free school run by the Dolly Children Foundation, which helps students who have been out of the education system get back on track with their studies. The foundation has programs in 30 communities that have reached more than 23,000 out-of-school children.

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A lifeline for orphaned children in Taraba

Yahuza Bawage

April 26, 2024 |

Prime Progress |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Jalingo, Taraba State

The United Methodist Church in Nigeria Orphanage provides children who have lost their parents with a place to live, education, and healthcare.

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California to expand re-entry programs for formerly incarcerated individuals. Here's how they work

Levi Sumagaysay

April 24, 2024 |

CalMatters |

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Response Location: United States, California

California is shifting to expand programs that help give incarcerated people the skills and knowledge they need to effectively transition back into society. Various re-entry programs for men and women across the state that connect people with education and job resources helped dropped recidivism rates from 44.6% to 41.9%, based on the state’s most recent data, and also cost taxpayers less than the average cost of incarceration.

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In 2 years since Russia's invasion, a U.S. program has resettled 187,000 Ukrainians with little controversy

Camilo Montoya-Galvez

April 24, 2024 |

CBS News |

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Response Location: United States, Pennington, New Jersey

Uniting for Ukraine allows U.S. citizens to sponsor Ukranian refugees, welcoming them to the U.S. to escape the war and Russian invasion of their home country. Over two years, the program has helped resettle 187,000 Ukrainians.

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A City Tries to Measure the Violence It's Preventing

Mark Obbie Karan Deep Singh Kathleen Flynn

April 22, 2024 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

A violence prevention program in Baton Rouge is working to reduce gun violence and help mothers and those affected cope and move forward in a healthy way. The street team with the non-profit C.H.A.N.G.E supports grieving families, provides targeted interventions and community engagement efforts around gun violence, and collects data to measure their work’s impact over time.

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