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  • COVID-19: NC rural mental health outreach gets creative

    August 07, 2020 |

    North Carolina Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Asheville, North Carolina

    Mental health agencies in North Carolina have partnered with a mobile phone carrier to provide data-enabled smartphones to individuals who lack access to technology during the pandemic. Because this doesn't provide a solution to all, however, mental health experts are also meeting with patients outside in social distanced settings.

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  • Qual o papel da rede de apoio no aleitamento materno?

    August 07, 2020 |

    Lunetas |

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    Response Location: Brazil

    A reportagem é sobre a importância de apoiar mães durante a amamentação de bebês. Há o exemplo de uma família que tem boa experiência com a amamentação por causa da divisão de tarefas domésticas, auxílio de um profissional da saúde e conhecimento sobre aleitamento.

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  • Bad Death Notifications are Affecting Families; Can They be Fixed?

    August 07, 2020 |

    The Community Voice |

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    Response Location: United States, Kansas City, Missouri

    The nationwide non-profit Trauma Intervention Programs Inc. uses volunteers trained in "compassionate notifications" – informing families of loved ones' deaths, a task that often is bungled by untrained, rushed first responders and hospital workers. In more than 250 communities, TIP volunteers can be dispatched simultaneously with fire and police teams. They provide counseling and assist families long after first responders have left. Advocates say their role can mend police-community relations in places like Kansas City, which lacks a formal protocol and resources for handling notifications.

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  • Short on Money, Cities Around the World Try Making Their Own

    August 07, 2020 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Tenino, Washington

    Complementary currencies are local alternatives to national currencies that help local economies when budgets are tight. Tenino prints “wooden dollars” and residents in need get up to $300/month to spend at local businesses from grocery stores to day cares. Cities across the US have reached out for advice on starting their own local currencies, which can take many forms including digital-only. There are 3,500-4,500 local currencies in 50 countries, including Brazil’s Maricá where it helped the under-resourced city build schools and hospitals. These currencies have no value outside of the local economy.

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  • Leaving Gun Towers and Barbed Wire for a Healing House

    August 07, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    A New Way of Life Reentry Project creates homes for women as they leave prison, providing a refuge and programs to help ensure a more successful transition into life on the outside. The network of small group homes, started in Los Angeles and expanded to 16 houses in multiple states, boast a 90% success rate. New Way’s approach prizes ordinary homes in residential neighborhoods, unlike jail-like settings common in transitional housing, which generally caters to men. Classes include careers, therapy, and family reunification.

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  • Cama e colchão que protegem barriga ajudam gestantes graves de Covid-19

    August 07, 2020 |

    Folha de S. Paulo |

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    Response Location: Brazil, São Paulo

    Dois hospitais públicos de São Paulo apresentaram resultados positivos em testes de camas e colchões especiais para grávidas com Covid-19. Os equipamentos protegem a barriga da mulher que esteja em situação grave da doença.

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  • 'An awakening': the George Floyd protests spur surge in Black voter registration

    August 07, 2020 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United States

    Advocacy organizations conducted voter outreach and registered new voters at Black Lives Matters protests on a scale not seen since the civil rights era. HeadCount, a voter-registration organization, created QR codes that anyone with a printer could put on protest signs. Other attendees could scan the codes with their smartphones to immediately register to vote. The group registered 14,898 new voters in June 2020, compared with 1,204 in June 2016. Political organizing at the summer’s protest events contributed to higher turnout in local and national elections, particularly among Black and Latino voters.

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  • AI & Big Data Will Lead to Better Conservation

    August 07, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States

    Naturalists are using technology like smartphone cameras and artificial intelligence to better track animal and plant conservation efforts across the United States. The online platform eButterfly allows users to share photos of butterflies that can inform scientists about how certain species’ ranges are shifting. Colorado Parks and Wildlife use a version of AI to identify and count species photographed by camera traps. While, AI could allow scientists to sort through more images and map out more complex ecological relationships, machine-learning algorithms take time to set up and large datasets to train.

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  • Scotland's 'Navigators' Transform Lives in the Emergency Room

    August 07, 2020 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Scotland, Glasgow

    In Scotland, the Navigators program performs violence interruption work in seven hospitals, at the bedside of victims of violence, with counseling and connections to social services to nudge people into safer lifestyles. Because Navigators act independently of the police and other authority figures, and because their service follows clients into the community, they are able to win the cooperation of 65-90% of those they approach. A survey of 100 clients showed 23% fewer emergency room visits in the year after cooperating with the program. Navigators started after violence in Scotland raged in 2005.

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  • Homeownership for Black families in Milwaukee is worse now than 50 years ago. Could a regional approach to affordable housing help?

    August 07, 2020 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Minnesota

    The Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity provides a comprehensive approach to providing affordable housing in seven counties across Minneapolis and St.Paul. The large area it serves allows families to move into either urban or suburban neighborhoods near schools of their choosing and with greater flexibility to take public transportation, jobs, and extracurricular activities into consideration. Milwaukee's uncoordinated efforts to improve housing for low-income families could benefit from a similar approach.

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