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  • West Hartford Schools Growing Fresh Produce In Their Own Cafeterias

    October 21, 2019 |

    Hartford Courant |

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    Response Location: United States, West Hartford, Connecticut

    Elementary school students in West Hartford, Connecticut are growing fresh produce for their school lunches and in the process learning about healthy eating, energy impact, and food waste. "We’re not telling them to make better choices, but we’re giving them agency to make better choices," a parent who drove the initiative said.

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  • Cook County Jail Program Helping Prevent Opioid Overdose Deaths By Providing Released Inmates With Naloxone

    October 21, 2019 |

    WBBM-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Illinois

    After recognizing that just-released inmates were more likely to overdose on opioids, Cook County Jail partnered with Cook County Health to train at-risk detainees how to administer Naloxone nasal spray. This program also provides released detainees with Naloxone kits, and has recorded significant success from this process.

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  • The Doomed 1970s Plan to Desegregate New York's Suburbs

    October 21, 2019 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    A plan forged in New York City suburbs in the 1970s addressed urban renewal and income inequality by creating low-income housing dwellings in nine separate towns outside of the city. Though the "Fair Share" program faced long-lasting criticism and ultimately failed, housing experts and developers still learn from the failed plan as they work toward urban renewal in the 21st century.

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  • 'They paid a guy to kill me': health workers fight homophobia in Uganda

    October 21, 2019 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Uganda, Mbale

    Reaching individuals at risk of HIV requires tackling stigma head-on. In Uganda, the director of the Eastern Region Women’s Empowerment Organisation deploys mobile health clinics to test and educate Ugandans on the risks of HIV transmission. The campaigns are held in neighborhoods and counseling is done in public, to help address the issue of stigma. The mobile clinics have received support from international organizations like USAid.

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  • Hope in coal country: Parents without diplomas keep their kids in school

    October 21, 2019 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Hyden, Kentucky

    In a former mining county in Kentucky, a high school principal is leveraging partnerships and raising expectations to both encourage students to complete high school and pursue college classes and to stay to work in the county. The school now boasts a 99 percent graduation rate and new programs to attract high-quality teachers.

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  • The least sexy, most important resilience strategy

    October 21, 2019 |

    American City & County |

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    Response Location: United States, Norfolk, Virginia

    Unprecedented challenges are frequently popping up with the onset of climate change, so governments too have to adjust their processes and strategies. Some new procurement tools used by several different cities include requests for ideas, competitions, and performance contracts. This article looks at two places using these new and publicly accessible procurement tools—Prince Georges County, MD, and Norfolk, VA—to see how it impacts their success.

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  • Nearly 19,000 youth in King County are neither working nor in school. How one Seattle nonprofit is changing that.

    October 20, 2019 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Renton, Washington

    A nonprofit in Seattle is identifying youth between the ages of 16 to 24 who are out of school and work and reconnecting them with the public education system. Two-thirds of students enrolled in the program have gone on to pursue college.

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  • In Cahoots: How the unlikely pairing of cops and hippies became a national model

    October 20, 2019 |

    The Register-Guard |

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    Response Location: United States, Eugene, Oregon

    Long before CAHOOTS became a national model for replacing police on some 911 calls with mobile crisis-response teams of medics and counselors, it represented an "odd marriage of police resources and counterculture philosophies." The acronym for Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets is in fact a sly reference to White Bird Clinic's hippies "in cahoots" with cops. But the police have long since made their peace with the service, which spends a tiny fraction of what it costs to run Eugene's police department while handling a large share of non-violent crises involving homelessness and mental health.

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  • How Germany averted an opioid crisis

    October 19, 2019 |

    NBC News |

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    Response Location: Germany, Hamburg

    Unlike the U.S., Germany has avoided an opioid epidemic by implementing regulations around when the drug is administered to patients that includes alternative treatments, special permission and screening for risk to addiction. For those that are being treated for drug addiction, their approach is centered on harm reduction strategies which has also shown greater success than the U.S.'s model of punishment.

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  • On air: The live radio show tackling mental health taboos Audio icon

    October 18, 2019 |

    Pioneers Post |

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    Response Location: Ethiopia, Addis Ababa

    Based out of the city of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, a live radio show is tackling the stigma around mental health care by combining their platform with those in the mental health care field. Not only does the radio show discuss psychological issues on air, but it also offers free and reduced-cost mental health services to those that serve as guests on the show.

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