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  • How to Vaccinate Homebound Seniors? Take the Shots to Them.

    March 22, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

    Multi-Media |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    Doctors across the U.S. are mobilizing to distribute Covid vaccines to those who are homebound and likely vulnerable to the coronavirus. Although efforts are still early, in New York, one hospital's house calls program plans to "vaccinate 100 patients a week over the next 10 weeks."

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  • How a Colorado town is untangling behavioral health care from the criminal justice system

    March 22, 2021 |

    Coloradoan |

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    Response Location: United States, Fort Collins, Colorado

    Acting on a recognition that police and the criminal justice system are too involved in responses to mental health and substance abuse crises, UCHealth formed mental health response teams that partner with Fort Collins police on such calls. In about 80% of calls the teams handled, no arrests were made while people received treatment or were referred to needed services. This program plus one that diverts certain criminal cases into treatment, which can result in dismissal of charges, have built-in drawbacks but have begun de-emphasizing criminal-justice remedies when people need other help.

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  • Tactics other states use to boost vaccination rates

    March 21, 2021 |

    Atlanta Journal-Constitution |

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    Response Location: United States, Georgia

    Georgia's Covid-19 vaccine rollout has been slow and confusing, but Wisconsin's offers lessons for how to improve the system. Unlike Georgia, Wisconsin has created a pre-registration list to eliminate confusion regarding eligibility and has also focused on outreach to marginalized communities. These efforts have helped the state achieve one of the nation's highest vaccination rates.

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  • Food waste: stories of inclusion and a sense of community

    March 21, 2021 |

    News48 |

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    Response Location: Italy

    Italian initiatives to combat food waste are connecting surplus food producers with those who need it. The volunteer-run groups have raised awareness of waste and food insecurity, built connections and places of food exchange, and have recovered and saved over 600 tons of food.

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  • Barakoa Maalum Kwa Walio na Changamoto ya Kusikia na Kuzungumza

    March 21, 2021 |

    RadioRahma |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Kenya

    Barakoa maalum yasaidia zaidi ya watu 3,000 wenye ulemavu wa kusikia na kuzungumza kuweza kuwasiiliana ilhali wanajikinga dhidi ya virusi vya corona. Barakoa hizo zina sehemu ambayo imeundwa na plastiki inayoruhusu mtu aliye na ulemavu wa aina hii kusoma jinsi midomo inavyosonga maneno yanapotamkwa na kupitia ivo kuweza kuwasiliana.

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  • Juvenile (in)justice

    March 20, 2021 |

    Reveal |

    Podcast |

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    Response Location: United States, Mitchell, South Dakota

    Five years after South Dakota replaced a failing, punitive juvenile justice system that emphasized incarceration and probation with approaches focused on rehabilitation and local services for youth, the state's investment has paid off in far lower recidivism, incarceration, and expense. Counties have financial, justice, and moral incentives to follow the evidence of what works and help teens improve their lives. The state also keeps the data needed to track what is working. Neighboring Wyoming does the opposite on all counts, and it has the wrecked lives and high costs to show for it.

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  • ‘Our biggest challenge? Lack of imagination': the scientists turning the desert green

    March 20, 2021 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, s’-Hertogenbosch

    A Dutch group of engineers known as the Weather Makers has an ambitious plan to regreen the Sinai Peninsula — the stretch of desert connecting Egypt to the rest of Asia. Their efforts would restore forests, wetlands, and even adjust the weather for the region. This form of ecosystems regeneration could help with food security and mitigate the effects of climate change. Their process of changing an entire ecosystem can be controversial, but initial tests have shown how this could work on a large scale.

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  • The New Push for Corporate Diversity Comes with an Atlanta Address

    March 20, 2021 |

    Wall Street Journal |

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    Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

    Companies are making the move to Atlanta in their efforts to diversify their workforces. Corporate diversity is hard to achieve in places like Silicon Valley. Instead, companies like Pandora have drastically increased the number of diverse employees since moving to the majority-Black city.

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  • We Can Eliminate Child Poverty

    March 19, 2021 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    Cash payments have proven to be effective in decreasing child poverty rates. Eastern Cherokee families in North Carolina receive bi-annual casino profits which have led to multiple positive outcomes that were not shared by other families living nearby. In Canada, national poverty rates dropped by 20 percent after the introduction of the Canada Child Benefit which provides cash to families depending on their income.

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  • Los que empatan

    March 19, 2021 |

    El Colectivo 506 |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica

    El impacto negativo de la enorme pérdida de horas lectivas para los niños y jóvenes de Costa Rica ha sido reducido por las acciones proactivas de docentes, directores, y algunas autoridades a nivel nacional.

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