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  • A mental health clinician and police officer duo now respond to Wauwatosa crisis calls

    February 13, 2025 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin

    The Crisis Assessment Response Team (CART) model pairs mental health clinicians with a plain-clothed officer trained in crisis intervention to answer emergency calls together to increase voluntary treatment and decrease involuntary emergency detentions. One team that started working together in Feburary responded to 12 calls in 10 days, with only one resulting in a detention.

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  • More parents are giving up their kids, but this Virginia model could be a solution

    February 13, 2025 |

    WSLS-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Fairfax, Virginia

    Case managers at the Fairfax County Department of Family Services is working to help families avoid filing and following through with relief of custody requests, instead providing therapy, in-home counseling, connection to treatment facilities and other resources that help prevent youth from entering the foster care system.

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  • Trade union partnerships hold promise for high school students

    February 11, 2025 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Danvers, Massachusetts

    A partnership between Essex Tech North Shore Agricultural & Technical High School, and Local 22 trade union members is teaching students union norms and trade skills early in their career, connecting them to apprenticeships and greater career opportunities. Other states, including Maryland and Louisiana, have similar programs and students report feeling a greater sense of job security and that they can command higher pay from employers due to the expertise gained from the program.

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  • The Revival of Germany's Carbon-Sequestering Peatlands

    February 10, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Germany

    Various initiatives are restoring farmlands to peatlands, which is helping lower CO2 levels in agriculture and create markets for the native grasses, reeds and sedges that peatlands support.

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  • Darfur's women refugees lead reforestation of war-blighted Sudan–Chad borderland

    February 10, 2025 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Chad, Adré

    The Safe Space for Women and Girls plants neem trees around the Adré refugee camp with the goal of combatting the effects of deforestation while also providing purpose and hope for refugees living at the camp. Women involved in the organization are trained to craft products such as bags and jewelry from the neem tree oil and wood, with the proceeds of these goods reinvested into conservation efforts. So far, the organization has planted more than 300 trees.

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  • How GoFundMe Became a $250 Million Lifeline After the L.A. Fires

    February 09, 2025 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Though not without certain flaws, GoFundMe has facilitated critical and rapid financial support for thousands of people. The company charges a 2.9 percent fee on all donations, as well as 30 cents for every transaction, to cover credit card and bank transaction fees, but its primary source of revenue is voluntary tips.

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  • The solar-powered intervention improving access to health care at the General Hospital Maru

    February 07, 2025 |

    Gold City FM 105.5 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Maru, Zamfara

    Amidst electricity shortages, Health System Consultant Limited came to a local hospital’s aid, outfitting the medical center with solar panels to ensure patients can still access healthcare services. Since the installation, patients at the General Hospital in Maru say diagnosis speed and the quality of care they receive have improved.

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  • Ethiopia's Utopian Experiment in Gender Equality

    February 07, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Ethiopia, Awra Amba

    The Awra Amba community is founded on broad values such as gender equality of labor, women’s rights, children’s rights, and caring for the elderly and vulnerable, and residents work together on 15 democratically elected committees to make key decisions. Research shows that the community has achieved higher life expectancy, literacy rates, and measures of gender equality than the country’s national averages.

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  • Some Wisconsin landowners manage beavers with non-lethal ways

    February 06, 2025 |

    Wisconsin Watch |

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    Response Location: United States, Maine

    Advocates and ecological consultants are popularizing flow control devices and tactics as a solution to beaver conflicts. A few are limiting beavers’ damming behavior and reducing beavers impacts on human infrastructure.

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  • Successful rural county health program could go statewide—if politics don't get in the way

    February 06, 2025 |

    North Carolina Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    The Healthy Opportunities pilot program uses Medicaid dollars to address non-medical needs like food access, transportation and housing. Since launching in 2022, the program has assisted nearly 30,000 people in 33 of the state’s 100 counties. Research shows the state is spending about $85 less in medical costs per month for each participant, and lawmakers are currently weighing whether to expand the program.

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