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  • Training on pasture recovery is a win-win for Brazil's cattle ranchers and forests

    Providing cattle ranchers in Brazil with training and monthly technical assistance in sustainable pasture restoration reduces carbon dioxide emissions while increasing productivity and revenue for ranchers.

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  • Helping First-Generation Students Reach College — and Build Community on the Way

    Yonkers Partners in Education is a nonprofit making college more accessible for low-income students of color through mentorship and tutoring.

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  • Hopes abound as Myanmar curriculum reaches Rohingya refugee children in Bangladesh

    The Myanmar Curriculum pilot project provides education to Rohingya children living in Bangladeshi refugee camps. The students attend classes in both English and in Burmese, which ensures that the children will know their native language and facilitate an eventual return to their country. There are 3,400 learning centers serving 300,000 students that are run by UN agencies and NGOs, where the successful pilot project will eventually be scaled to.

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  • Malabar Care Connect reduces healthcare barriers for students and families

    A health center based in a school provides free services to students and their families to help children succeed academically.

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  • At these US colleges everyone works and there's no tuition

    Work colleges are providing an affordable path to obtaining degrees by requiring all students to work 15 hours a week in exchange for no tuition fees. The funding for the colleges comes from “a mixture of private donations, Pell Grants, and sustaining funding from hefty endowments.”

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  • Paid training, tuition assistance may be key to solving New York's nursing home staffing crisis

    In an effort to boost staff and retain current healthcare workers, Catholic Health and McGuire Group's nursing homes are working with D’Youville University to fund the education of those interested in becoming a certified nursing assistant (CNA). Participants are paid for their time spent training and taking courses and are guaranteed a job once they complete the program. Catholic Health and the McGuire Group hired 29 CNAs from the program in 2022 across its nine nursing homes in the Western part of the state.

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  • College. Work. Starting a business. KC grads with disabilities have options

    The Transition Academy connects people with mental and physical disabilities with helpful resources to increase their access to jobs and higher education. The group also connects families with resources, experiences, and knowledge to create a smooth transition out of high school for students with disabilities and provides a Facebook community for families to connect and share insights.

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  • How Michigan police agencies are training to respond to 911 calls with autistic people

    The Northville Township Police Department and Michigan State Police (MSP) are adapting new autism awareness techniques by participating in the Action For Autism program. The program helps officers better understand people with autism to interact with them without making quick judgments that can result in violence. Officers who go through the training have begun gathering profiles of members of the area’s autistic community to be used in 911 calls and have begun carrying calming bags in their patrol cars. The MSP alone has trained about 1,500 MSP troopers and department personnel.

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  • Schools are struggling to hire special education teachers. Hawaii may have found a fix

    In 2020 Hawaii public schools started paying special education teachers $10,000 more per year to address a severe shortage of teachers. The program cut the number of vacancies in half.

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  • Abuse prevention effort adapts over 30 years to keep kids safe

    Jewish Family Services (JFS) has been delivering the Child Abuse Prevention Program to local schools for 30 years. JFS presents the program at 150 area schools, curating age-appropriate presentations for each grade level. The program covers examples of safe and appropriate touching, as well as what to do if the child finds themselves in an unsafe situation and how to tell an adult.

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