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  • More youths are becoming home caregivers. Experts say they need more help and support

    February 07, 2022 |

    WXXI |

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    Response Location: United States, Palm Beach County, Florida

    Programs like the American Association of Caregiving Youth (AACY) advocate for and provide support to youth caregivers who are responsible for caring for sick, elderly, or adults with disabilities at home. AACY’s Youth Caregiver Project provides support in school and at home by offering customized services based on each student’s needs, including tutoring, counseling and even connections to food resources or school supplies. AACY serves about 600 students in 30 schools each year. Since the Youth Caregiver Project began in the late 1990s, about 2,000 youth have completed the program.

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  • Zero Tolerance to FGM in Okpala Umukwune

    February 06, 2022 |

    Stories That Matter NG |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Nigeria, Okpala Umukwune

    A community in Nigeria educated residents about the dangers of female genital mutation and implemented a fine to stop the practice.

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  • “It Was Just So Magical”: These Groups Are Helping Refugees Rediscover Nature

    February 04, 2022 |

    Outside |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Migrants fleeing their homes in search of safety are finding refuge in nature. A Chicago nonprofit, REACH, is helping refugee families “find community, support, and confidence via wilderness adventures.” Wilderness experiences are providing recreation and the therapeutic effects of nature.

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  • The Answer to our Youth Mental Health Crisis?

    February 03, 2022 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    To provide mental health care to students, a pilot program at Girard College meets students where they are at with practices based on integrated behavioral health, adding mental health care into conventional health care settings.

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  • Black students fought to defund school police in LA and hire mental health counselors instead

    February 01, 2022 |

    Capital B (National) |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    After a period of backpack searches and police pepper-spraying students, Students Deserve, a youth-led activist group, pushed for the Los Angeles Unified School District to withdraw all funding for school police and divert it to mental health support for Black students. The school board approved a plan to cut one third of the school police budget, roughly around $25 million, and instead use it to fund “221 psychiatric social workers, counselors, “climate coaches,” and restorative justice advisers to schools with the highest number of Black students.”

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  • L'enseignement à ciel ouvert, l'espoir des enfants nomades

    January 31, 2022 |

    StopBlabla |

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    Response Location: Chad

    Le système éducatif tchadien dans sa mise en œuvre écarte une bonne partie des enfants des éleveurs nomades. Pour y remédier, un diplomé en psychologie de l'éducation a monté une école de fortune. Elle accueille aujourd'hui plus de 180 élèves.

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  • Virginia clean energy job training program climbs its own learning curve

    January 25, 2022 |

    Energy News Network |

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    Response Location: United States, Richmond, Virginia

    To ensure that marginalized communities, include Black residents and the formerly incarcerated, have the skills and opportunity to be a part of the growing solar and energy-efficiency industry in the community, Bridging the Gap offers free, intensive solar-training courses to them.

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  • Plastic As Tuition: A School In Lagos Is Reducing Waste, Providing Quality Education All At Once

    January 17, 2022 |

    HumAngle |

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    Response Location: Niger, Lagos, Lagos State

    The Recycles Pay Educational Project allows parents in Ajegunle to collect and exchange plastic waste as tuition for their childrens' education. Isrina Schools has seen its enrollment climb since starting the program and has been able to recycle more than 5,000 kilograms of polyethylene terephthalate bottles.

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  • Filling the Education Gap

    January 07, 2022 |

    Transitions Online |

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    Response Location: Czech Republic

    The Faculties Tutor initiative connects elementary schools with students in need of tutoring with trained college students knowledgeable in the appropriate topics.

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  • ‘Boys and girls have equal freedom': Kerala backs gender-neutral uniforms

    January 02, 2022 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: India, Kerala

    In an attempt to provide ease of movement to girl students while playing, Valayanchirangara primary school introduced "gender-neutral" uniforms for all its 756 students that eliminated the earlier requirement for them to wear skirts. It has since inspired several other schools in Kerala to similarly change their uniforms and snowballed a movement, supported by the state's education minister no less, where more such measures to promote gender equality in schools are being encouraged and adapted.

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