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  • How unemployed Californians launched new careers in a pandemic with 9 weeks of training

    February 02, 2021 |

    Sacramento Bee |

    Multi-Media |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    Digital Upskill Sacramento is providing 9-week paid training sessions to participants who want to enter the tech industry. The program is allowing people who didn’t have the time, resources, or opportunity before to get hands-on training in addition to potential employment opportunities. This initiative is a result of a collaboration between several organizations and funding from the city. The funds were allotted for job training in growing industries, especially as the pandemic resulted in the loss of many jobs.

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  • On the Columbia River, something stirs beyond the dams

    February 02, 2021 |

    Crosscut |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Colville Indian Reservation, Washington

    The Grand Coulee, a 500-foot-tall dam on the Columbia River, nearly eradicated the salmon population that the Colville Tribes relied on, but the Indigenous community initiated a restoration effort to save the fish. They released by hand 100 adult Chinook salmon and scientists were able to confirm that the species was spawning on the upper part of the dam for the first time in 80 years.

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  • In the first six months of health care professionals replacing police officers, no one they encountered was arrested

    February 02, 2021 |

    Denverite |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Denver's STAR (Support Team Assisted Response) program deliberately reduces potentially violent encounters between uniformed police officers and troubled people by responding to certain low-level crises with a mental health clinician and a medic. In STAR's first six months, the team offered 748 people help rather than jail, without requiring any arrests to resolve problems. With more resources, the team could have handled more than 2,500 incidents. The police chief supports the program's expansion, saying it frees his officers to handle more serious matters.

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  • How a better headcount reduces homelessness in the US

    February 02, 2021 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States

    The “Built for Zero” campaign relies on frequently updated data collection and a streamlining of homelessness services to reduce the number of unhoused people living on the streets to “functional zero.” The data is housed in one central command center with various agencies, nonprofits, and government offices working together to ensure no one falls through the cracks.

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  • Georgia's Mental Health Champions

    February 02, 2021 |

    Transitions Online |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Georgia

    Across Georgia, a community-based mental health care approach has decreased both the duration and frequency of hospitalization for clients. This approach relies on mental health and other healthcare specialists delivering care to clients via mobile teams.

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  • These local nonprofits bring books to incarcerated individuals in North Carolina

    February 02, 2021 |

    The Daily Tar Heel |

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    Response Location: United States, Durham, North Carolina

    Prison Books Collective and a partner organization, N.C. Women's Prison Book Project, for 15 years have collected donated books and then distributed them inside North Carolina prisons to incarcerated people who crave new reading material. Answering requests, which sometimes can be quite specific as to genre, the groups fulfill orders from their revolving supply. Combined, the groups make up to 75 shipments per week and in return hear from people inside about how meaningful the donated books are to them.

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  • HBCU student media confronts local news bias

    February 02, 2021 |

    Scalawag |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Greensboro, North Carolina

    In 2018, The A&T Register, the online student-run newspaper for North Carolina A&T State University, the largest Black university in the country, conducted a media investigation. It examined the way local media wrote headlines that associated the university with crime. They examined headlines that fell into two categories; those that used the campus as a locator for crime, or headlines that based outdated affiliations. Then, the editor-in-chief, Alexis Wray, presented their findings to local outlets hoping to effect change. They did. Their investigation led to changes in future headlines.

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  • Youth incarceration fell when California required counties to pay more for juvenile detention: New research

    February 02, 2021 |

    Journalist's Resource |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    When a California law shifted the costs of incarcerating youth from the state to its counties, judges suddenly sent 40% fewer youth to state-run juvenile facilities. That reduction began a long-term trend that combined with a state commitment to evidence-based approaches to rehabilitation instead of punishment, especially for less-serious offenses. The end result is that state juvenile jails have been all but phased out of existence and California, a longtime tough-on-crime state, now has what one advocacy group considers the nation's most humane juvenile justice system.

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  • Displaced but not forgotten: Organisations delivering family planning services to Abuja's IDP camps

    February 02, 2021 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria

    The Covid-19 pandemic complicated health care for women living in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in Nigeria who already lacked access to family planning services and education, but collaborative efforts are working to change this. Through collective action, a group of non-profits worked together to create a one-day outreach event that provided education and trained community members to carry on the work.

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  • Au Togo, l'essor de fermes-écoles pour former les patrons de l'agroécologie de demain

    February 01, 2021 |

    Le Monde |

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    Response Location: Togo

    Au Togo, un réseau de 1 200 jeunes producteurs travaille à enseigner des pratiques agricoles durables sans engrais chimiques et avec de très bons rendements. Depuis trois ans, dix fermes se chargent de former, pendant trois mois, les futurs patrons de l’agriculture écologique et familiale de demain. Un modèle basé sur un apprentissage très pratique.

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