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  • Taking Mental Health Crises Out of Police Hands

    Jenee Darden

    November 01, 2021 |

    70 Million |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    Until Oakland joins the list of cities sending counselors and social workers on emergency calls concerning mental health crises, a grassroots program called Mental Health First is diverting a small number of emergencies from police involvement to a community-based response. Hundreds of volunteers, many with their own experiences with mental illness and crises, answer dozens of calls per month in which they de-escalate, counsel, and direct people to needed services – all without the threat that a misunderstood person could be harmed by police untrained in correctly handling such crises.

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  • Preventing road deaths through safe system design

    Gary Humphreys

    November 01, 2021 |

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Colombia, Bogotá

    Safe System design is a public health framework for preventing traffic accidents and death. The system adapts and transforms roads as part of a broader system of reforms. In Bogotá, in addition to a city-wide speed limit, high-risk corridors were identified using geo-referenced collision data and modeling. Multiple locations were transformed into pedestrian friendly streets that encourage lower traffic speeds by using speed bumps, bicycle lanes, wide sidewalks, benches, and planters. Officials note that the change has led to a decline in fatalities.

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  • REACH: Taking Quality Healthcare to Communities in Kano State

    Bashar Abubakar

    November 01, 2021 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

    REACH (“Reaching Everyone with Accessible Community Health”) provides preventive and curative healthcare through a community-based health insurance initiative that offers different packages of care. Community members pay a monthly fee for the insurance, which gives them access to treatment for all ailments including prescription medicines. About 11,000 people are served locally by 22 community health workers but are referred to health clinics and hospitals for more serious issues. Partnerships with pharmaceutical companies and the nonprofit arm of a local clinic helps make treatment costs affordable.

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  • How Baltimore Escaped the Worst of Covid-19

    Michael Ollove

    November 01, 2021 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    The city of Baltimore escaped the worst of COVID-19 with high vaccination rates, high rates of health coverage, and strong support from political leaders who cooperated across ideological lines. Medicaid expansion helped achieve relatively high health insurance rates. Officials were also a bit more and cautious in reopening businesses and schools and relaxing mask requirements. The city didn’t escape the death and illness seen during the pandemic, but for these reasons it fared better than comparable areas.

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  • Keeping Cattle on the Move and Carbon in the Soil

    Benjamin Ryan

    October 31, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Grasslands are important players in carbon sequestration. In the U.S. and Kenya some farmers are switching to regenerative grazing. For some this entails concentrating herds of cows and resting paddocks for long periods of time, and for others it means reseeding native grasses. This all forms part of a larger global network to restore grasslands.

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  • ¿Hay un cáncer 100% prevenible? Si, el de cérvix

    Mónica Quesada Cordero

    October 29, 2021 |

    El Colectivo 506 |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Costa Rica

    El sistema de salud de Costa Rica ha implementado un programas de tamizaje para el cáncer de cervix que le han permitido disminuir los casos de cáncer avanzado que detectan y así disminuir la mortalidad pro este cancer. El país tiene de los índices más bajos de latinoamérica de mortalidad y de los más altos de supervivencia.

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  • Is Abiyamo Scheme To The Rescue For Ondo Women After Abiye's Exit?

    Shola Ilesanmi

    October 29, 2021 |

    The Precision NG |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Ondo

    The Abiyamo Maternal and Child Health Insurance Scheme provides free maternal and early childhood care, including hospital deliveries, to improve maternal and childhood survival rates. The government made a budgetary provision to guarantee annual funds, ensuring the program will last beyond the current administration. Traditional birth attendants are paid for every woman they refer to a hospital and hospitals are paid via a lump sum or fee-for-service model. Media campaigns and engagement with local stakeholders have helped increase hospital deliveries and while giving women free high-quality care.

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  • Pueblos in New Mexico turn to goats for fire management

    Wufei Yu

    October 29, 2021 |

    High Country News |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Sandia Pueblo, New Mexico

    Tribes in New Mexico have enlisted over 70 goats to help clear dry brush, branches, and invasive plants, which can otherwise become fuel for potential fires. The program, which has been running for almost a whole year has proven successful and it serves a dual purpose--the goats eat, and the chances of potential fires are greatly reduced. "Sandia Pueblo’s goat experiment has garnered interest from other tribes that see goats as a more natural way to tend the land than heavy machinery and chemicals."

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  • The seeds to build permanent farmworker housing are planted. Will there be a harvest?

    Pam Marino

    October 29, 2021 |

    Monterey County Weekly |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Soledad, California

    A research study is spurring change and leading to the addition of more housing units in Soledad. Agriculture is the main industry of the region, making farmworker housing a priority. Vacant housing has been rehabilitated and several new developments have been built to house both year-round and migrant workers.

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  • Orlando man's 7th arrest in 7 years raises questions about mental competency system

    Erik Sandoval

    October 29, 2021 |

    WKMG-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Orlando, Florida

    Orange County, Florida, courts have ordered thousands of mental-competency hearings in recent years to test whether criminal defendants are mentally capable of facing charges. If they are not, they get released, leaving mental illnesses untreated and leading to repeat cycles of arrest and release that sap public resources and threaten public safety. Miami-Dade’s Criminal Mental Health Project offers a more effective model, in which police officers are trained to call in mental health professionals who can get the person into treatment rather than jail.

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