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  • ‘It liberated me': The fight for Calgary's supervised drug-use site

    June 22, 2021 |

    The Sprawl |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Canada, Calgary, Alberta

    In less than three and a half years, Safeworks, the only supervised drug-use site in Calgary, saved thousands of people from opioid-overdose deaths and helped users for whom abstinence-based treatment didn't work. The government of Alberta deemed the site a scene of "chaos" and ordered it closed once two new sites open. Safeworks supporters oppose the disruption in harm-reduction work that move would bring, considering how critical personal relationships built on trust are to this kind of service.

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  • ShotSpotter tech eyed as possible tool in gun violence prevention

    June 21, 2021 |

    The Land |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    An audio alert service called ShotSpotter uses audio sensors and algorithms to detect gunfire and report it to the Cleveland police. The technology is helping to bridge the gap in unreported gunfire in the city.

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  • How Does Treating Gun Violence As A Public Health Crisis Work? One Bronx Program Offers A Potential Flagship Model

    June 21, 2021 |

    Gothamist |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Stand Up to Violence is the only street-outreach gun-violence-prevention program in New York that centers its work in hospitals. Street outreach is a policing alternative that uses former gang members and formerly incarcerated people to intervene before arguments turn deadly. Hospital-based intervention work puts counselors and mediators at gunshot victims' bedside to start the intervention, and offers of services, at the earliest stage. In a four-year span, the areas covered by Stand Up, based at Jacobi Medical Center, saw many fewer shootings and instances where victims got shot again.

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  • "قاوم".. مبادرة لدعم ومساندة ضحايا الابتزاز الجنسي في مصر

    June 21, 2021 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Egypt

    تدعم مجموعة فيسبوك محلية النساء ضحايا الابتزاز الجنسي، اللاتي لا يمكنهن طلب مساعدة الشرطة خوفا من الفضيحة. إذ يجمع متطوعون محليون معلومات عن المبتزين، ويحاولون الوصول إلى أقاربهم لفضحهم إن لزم الأمر، ويطلبون من المبتزين أن يصورا أنفسهم وهم يحذفون الصور ومقاطع الفيديو.

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  • In Egypt, online group Qawem saving hundreds of women from sextortion

    June 20, 2021 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Egypt

    The Egyptian Facebook group Qawem (Arabic for resist) helps victims of sextortion by turning threats around to target the attacker. Sextortion, in which threatened disclosure of a person's nude or other embarrassing photos are used as a tool of extortion, is illegal in Egypt. But women – the typical victims – are often reluctant to report incidents to the police, out of shame or fear. When victims report sextortion attempts to Qawem, volunteers counsel the victims while other volunteers track down the extortionists and threaten to expose them to their family or friends. About 200 cases per week get resolved.

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  • A cure for violence

    June 18, 2021 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    In the Boston area, the Roca organization intervenes before young men commit violence. Its "relentless outreach" approach is based on cognitive behavioral therapy, an approach that helps people recognize and change their destructive behavior and learn new skills to cope with conflict and stress – essential to keeping impulsive young men, many the victims of violent trauma, from committing violence. Researchers see evidence that the program, which has spread throughout the metro area and to Baltimore, makes people less likely to get arrested and more likely to get a job.

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  • Genesungsbegleiter: Frühere Straftäter als Therapeuten in der Forensik

    June 18, 2021 |

    Deutschlandfunk |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Germany

    Wie können psychisch kranke Straftäter zurück in die Gesellschaft finden? In Rostock helfen dabei Menschen, die selbst ähnliche Krisen durchgemacht und überwunden haben. In anderen Bereichen ist der Ansatz bereits etabliert.

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  • Why U.S. Presidents Can't Win The War On Drugs

    June 17, 2021 |

    CNBC |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    Fifty years on, America's war on drugs has failed at its principal goals: to eradicate illicit drug use and sales, to repair communities damaged by the drug trade, and to prevent drug-related deaths. Despite massive amounts spent on law enforcement, which has created great social harms and fueled incarceration, drug use has rebounded to 40-year highs, drug overdose deaths are peaking, and supply of illegal drugs is abundant. Policy advocates say a combination of legalization and public-health approaches to the problems would accomplish more than the wasteful, ineffective "war" mentality used to date.

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  • If We Can Soar: What Birmingham Roller Pigeons Offer the Men of South Central

    June 15, 2021 |

    Pipe Wrench |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    The Black Country Roller Club and its founder, Cornell Norwood, fostered a subculture in Los Angeles' South Central neighborhoods among Black men who broke the color barrier in competitive pigeon husbandry. Besides the success they found in their hobby of breeding and raising roller pigeons, known for their distinctive aerial acrobatic talents, the young men and boys drawn to this world found mutual support "in times of flux and instability," and a meritocracy that provided meditative benefits: "a more organic form of the Big Brother program, and a culturally sensitive outlet for mental health."

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  • Wichita couple overcomes drug addiction, creates organization for teens

    June 12, 2021 |

    KSNW-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Wichita, Kansas

    Rise Up for Youth is a program built into some Wichita schools that works to keep teenagers out of gangs and helps them focus on positive changes in their community. There are two programs — one for males called the Brotherhood and one for females called Sisterhood – which encourage teens to keep busy and find activities that give them a natural high. Participants visit prisons, talk with police and people coming out of incarceration, and make college visits. Since the program started, 100% of student participants have graduated from high school and many have gone on to college and have successful careers.

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