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Miyawaki: A little forest with a towering task

Jingnan Peng

September 22, 2023 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Residents of Cambridge, Massachusetts, are planting Miyawaki forests to help regenerate the local ecosystem, sequester carbon, and cool the air. Originally created in Japan, these forests consist entirely of native plants made to mimic a natural forest in a small area of urban land.

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How artificial intelligence plus local expertise can promote ‘good fire' in Montana

Bowman Leigh

September 21, 2023 |

Montana Free Press |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Montana

The Potential Operational Delineations (PODs) framework combines analytics and local expertise to assess fire risk by marking out locations on a map where fire can best be stopped. The risk is then used to identify where best to suppress the fire and where it can continue to burn to benefit the environment and prevent future fires. From there, experts decide how to respond to a fire in each section of the map in advance, which can also include prevention tactics.

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The Rise of Indigenous Doulas

Jenna Kunze

September 21, 2023 |

Native News Online |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

In an effort to reduce maternal mortality for Native mothers, Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services provides free physical, emotional, educational and spiritual support to Indigenous mothers and their families throughout the entire pregnancy and birth process. Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services emerged in 2019 and since then its team of five Indigenous doulas has provided culturally-relevant care to more than 150 pregnant Native women with a maternal and infant mortality rate of zero.

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Burgers but no beers: Emigrant Gap restaurant is connected to drug-alcohol recovery program

Graham Womack

September 21, 2023 |

Sacramento Bee |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Emigrant Gap, California

The Sierra-Pacific Teen Challenge program supports people in recovery from drug and alcohol abuse with robust skills training, employment, on-site housing, and peer support. Of those who complete the program, about 85% remain clean and sober after 5 years.

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Omamas: Roma women fighting generational poverty in Slovakia

Zuzana Límová

September 21, 2023 |

Ereb |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Slovakia, Zborov

Through the Omama program, Roma women provide individual lessons to Roma children under the age of six living in settlements and disadvantaged communities, where they may not have access to crucial early childhood education. The lessons, which focus on motor skills, cognitive development, and Slovak language proficiency, have benefited roughly 900 children so far.

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‘A good place:' Queer youth seek acceptance at state's first foster home for LGBTQ+ teens

Michael Gerstein

September 20, 2023 |

WCBU Radio |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

Lawrence Hall’s transitional housing in Chicago is a safe space for members of the LGBTQ+ community in the foster care system to live and receive wraparound support while they get ready for the next step in their lives, whatever that may be. Many of the staff also identify as LGBTQ+ and help them learn to cook, keep a job, or answer questions about things like hormone therapy and gender-affirming care.

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Hefty cigarette taxes cut smoking big-time. But there's a downside for children

Jenny Gold

September 20, 2023 |

Los Angeles Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

First 5 — a group of public agencies created by California’s Proposition 10 tobacco tax — provide funding for preschools, homeless family housing, pediatric dental and mental health care and infant-mother home visits to help parents in need. Home visit groups funded by First 5, like Welcome Baby, serve more than 15,000 families a year and provide necessary supplies like cribs and car seats as well as check-ins for child development.

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Rewriting Retribution

Kelly Chan Leon Jones III Jiajia Liu Ziyu Peng Jieyi Zhou

September 20, 2023 |

The Emancipator |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

The Massachusetts Federal District Court’s RISE rehabilitation program facilitates a restorative justice workshop in which people responsible for crimes have conversations with victims of similar crimes to help them understand the impacts of their crimes and make amends.

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The Guaranteed Income Program That's Helping Black Moms – and Trying to Change the World

Candice Helfand-Rogers

September 20, 2023 |

The Story Exchange |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Jackson, Mississippi

In Jackson, Mississippi, the nonprofit-run Magnolia Mother’s Trust is a guaranteed income program providing a no-strings-attached monthly stipend of $1,000 to Black mothers living in affordable housing to help them combat poverty.

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Community land trusts can help improve local housing affordability

Duncan Agnew

September 20, 2023 |

Evanston RoundTable |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Evanston, Illinois

Through a land trust, Community Partners in Affordable Housing sells homes to buyers at a fixed cost while maintaining ownership of the land they’re built on, allowing those who wouldn’t otherwise be able to afford market rate housing to become homeowners. Some of the homes are even built by high school students enrolled in a local Geometry in Construction program.

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