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  • New York City's Teen Pregnancy Rate Plummeted After High Schools Expanded Access To Plan B

    February 04, 2013 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    From 2001 to 2011, New York City's teen pregnancy rate decreased by 27 percent as a result of increased access to contraceptives. Public schools started providing Plan B and condoms to students.

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  • N.Y.C. Nurses Aid Low-Income First-Time Mothers

    December 15, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    New mothers who live in poverty are faced with fewer resources to help them with their physical and mental health as well as the health of their babies. In New York City, the Nurse-Family partnership matches nurses with economically poor first-time mothers. Different studies have shown that women in the program have healthier pregnancies and children.

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  • Easier Than Taking Vitamins

    September 05, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Canada, Toronto, Ontario

    A nutrient powder can save anemic children, but the people who could benefit are distrustful. Having local mothers distribute the supplement was successful in Bangladesh.

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  • The Power of Nursing

    May 06, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Elmira, New York

    In 2010, 5.9 million children were reported as abused or neglected in the United States. The Nurse-Family Partnership, or NFP, arranges for registered nurses to make regular home visits to first-time low-income or vulnerable mothers, starting early in their pregnancies and continuing until their child is 2.

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  • In India, a Small Pill, With Positive Side Effects

    April 04, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India, New Delhi, Delhi

    In the developing world, intestinal worms stunt physical and mental growth, drain energy, and can inhibit school work for children. Deworm the World is a global campaign that lobbied the Delhi government to regularly distribute deworming pills to school children. The benefits decrease student absenteeism and increase cost-saving measures.

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  • The Power of Positive Coaching

    October 20, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    A group called Positive Coaching Alliance is training thousands of coaches and parents to change to culture of youth sports for the better, using a "relentlessly positive" approach, and trading out the win-at-all-costs ethos of professional sports for evidence-based, age-appropriate guidance to players.

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  • Forging a Life-Changing Bond

    October 11, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Child-mentoring programs around the United States have helped at-risk youth during crucial years of development. However, New York City's Friends of the Children has improved the model by placing at-risk youth with adult mentors for 12 years. The forged relationships between mentor and developing child have greatly reduced the probability of teenage pregnancy, incarceration, and school drop-outs, and is cost saving.

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  • For Children at Risk, Mentors Who Stay

    October 06, 2011 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    A group in New York called Friends of the Children identifies high risk kids in the city and mentors them for 12 years helping them become emotionally stable and capable adults.

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  • The Rewards of Renewal

    June 16, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    Poor neighborhoods in the United States lack quality play spaces for children, also known as play deserts. An organization is enabling communities across the nation to build their own playground.

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  • The Path From Charity to Profit

    May 26, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Indonesia, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta

    In Jakarta’s slums, families can’t buy their children nutritious food. So Mercy Corps started a for-profit chain of food carts selling healthy kids’ meals. A second column highlights the challenges NGOs face when they try to start for-profit businesses.

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