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Reuniting families with community support

Anne Hillman

April 20, 2016 |

Alaska Public Media |

Multi-Media |

Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Alaska

Beacon Hill is a non-profit that helps foster children build relationships with their parents by creating a safe space for them to interact. The organization encourages a healthy relationship between the foster family and the child's parents so that the return of the children to their original family is done successfully.

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Covenant House Rescues Hundreds of Runaway Teens, Turns Away More

Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

April 18, 2016 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Covenant House is Philadelphia's only shelter for older adolescents who have run away, been victims of abuse, been sex trafficked or abandoned.

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MATC program helps children of incarcerated parents graduate

Gina Barton

April 04, 2016 |

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

The Right Path program aims to help break the cycle of poverty and criminality. It covers tuition and course materials for students as well as providing stipends.

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This Is How You End the Foster Care to Prison Pipeline

Chris Peak

March 16, 2016 |

NationSwell |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

Oakland's First Place for Youth provides housing for recently emancipated foster children, giving them the boost they need to avoid the foster care-to-prison pipeline.

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This superintendent has figured out how to make school work for poor kids

Emma Brown

December 20, 2015 |

The Washington Post |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Jennings, Missouri

School districts don’t usually operate homeless shelters for their students, run food banks or have a system in place to provide whatever clothes kids need. Few offer regular access to pediatricians and mental health counselors, or make washers and dryers available to families desperate to get clean. But the Jennings School District — serving about 3,000 students in a low-income, predominantly African American jurisdiction just north of St. Louis — does all of these things and more.

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From foster care to college: Seattle University blazes a new path

Katherine Long

December 19, 2015 |

The Seattle Times |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

Only a fraction of kids in foster care go to college, and even fewer graduate. The small but successful scholarship program at Seattle University aims to change that by specifically helping students from foster care.

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How an ambitious new program aims to fight poverty and help kids learn, one block at a time

Ann Schimke

December 02, 2015 |

Chalkbeat Colorado |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Arvada, Colorado

To mitigate the pernicious effects of poverty on student success, nonprofit 'Blocks of Hope' in Colorado aims to provide both educational and social services to students and their families, with the goal of leveling the playing field.

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Removing Children from Abusive Situations at Home Isn't Always the Answer. This Is

Chris Peak

November 25, 2015 |

NationSwell |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

During the early 1990s, New York City had a sky-high number of kids in foster care. Now, it's safely keeping them with their families, placing them in foster care only when necessary.

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Intervention with a purpose combats underage drinking

Weston Morrow

November 04, 2015 |

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Fort Apache Reservation, United States, Fairbanks, Alaska

To combat high rates of teen alcohol use, Alaskan schools are introducing positive interventions, trying to help students rather than simply punish them.

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How puppets can stop vulnerable children from becoming sex offenders

Emily Dugan

October 16, 2015 |

The Independent |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United Kingdom, Bristol

Be Safe uses tools like puppets to teach young children who are showing early signs of harmful sexual behavior how to control their sexual urges and what behavior is and isn’t appropriate. The goal is to intervene early to stop the behavior from developing into something more serious. So far, all but one child who graduated from Be Safe’s program has shown a reduction or total elimination of their behavior.

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