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'Motivated and inspired': California inmates are improving mental health behind bars

Francine Kiefer

May 16, 2025 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

In Los Angeles County Jail, a peer-to-peer mental health program called Forensic Inpatient (FIP) Stepdown has incarcerated individuals trained as mental health assistants supporting fellow inmates struggling with severe mental illnesses. Started by inmates themselves, the program has significantly reduced self-harm incidents, improved hygiene and social functioning, and restored dignity to inmates who participate.

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Mujeres en obra: las salteñas que construyen su futuro

Eva Marabotto

May 15, 2025 |

elDiarioAR |

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Response Location: Argentina, Salta

El programa Constructoras de Salta capacitó a 1,100 mujeres en oficios de construcción desde 2022 y logró que 15 municipios aprobaran leyes de cupo del 10% en obras públicas, contribuyendo al aumento nacional de participación femenina en el sector del 4.1% al 7.1% entre 2007-2023, aunque enfrenta limitaciones por la disolución del Ministerio de Mujeres nacional y la falta de reglamentación local. Puedes leer este artículo en inglés aquí: https://solu.news/xuvw

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The News Show Made by and for People With Learning Disabilities

Geetanjali Krishna

May 15, 2025 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: Norway, Bergen

TV Bra is a Norwegian news station where all reporters are autistic or have learning disabilities that produces a weekly one-hour news cast tailored to its audience. TV Bra helps ensure news is accessible to everyone, helping people who are historically excluded from journalism stay up-to-date, and has significant viewership, with upwards of 5,000 people tuning in each week.

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A Pennsylvania city bet on DEI. Can it survive the Trump era?

Tim Craig

May 10, 2025 |

The Washington Post |

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Response Location: United States, Erie, Pennsylvania

Diverse Erie is an ambitious DEI initiative aimed at funding minority-owned businesses and revitalizing marginalized neighborhoods as the Trump administration cuts federal funding. Funded partly by federal pandemic relief dollars, the program has provided critical grants and training for dozens of businesses, helping entrepreneurs expand and sustain their businesses.

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Backlash over anti-trans rhetoric brings new energy to NYC's parent council elections

Michael Elsen-Rooney

May 09, 2025 |

Chalkbeat New York |

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Response Location: United States, Bronx, New York

In response to growing political polarization and controversial policies on local NYC school councils, grassroots community groups such as "the Aunties" have mobilized parent engagement through organized protests, canvassing and digital activism. Their efforts have notably raised community awareness, significantly increased parent participation at public council meetings, and compelled influential groups to reconsider key candidate endorsements.

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Networks of hope: women from Piura fight against gender violence

Scarlet Timana

May 08, 2025 |

El Colectivo 506 |

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Response Location: Peru, Piura

The community networks of women defenders in Piura are organized structures that, since 2018, have provided accompaniment, training, and inter-institutional coordination to victims of gender-based violence, combining psychological support, legal pathways, and economic empowerment. Since their founding, more women have reported violence, coordination between public institutions such as police and prosecutor's offices have improved, and survivors have transformed into leaders who break cycles of violence in their communities. Read this story in Spanish here: https://solu.news/mvw1

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The women transforming tea fields into engines of change

Cecilia Fernández Castañón

May 08, 2025 |

FairPlanet |

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Response Location: Argentina, Misiones

Local organizations such as Mujeres Rurales Argentinas and the provincial Ministry of Agriculture's Gender Cabinet are empowering rural women through artisanal tea production. By offering training programs structured around women's caregiving schedules, creating spaces for gender-inclusive collaboration, and advocating for policy changes, these groups have helped increase women's leadership roles in tea production, as more than half of artisan producers are now women.

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Jobs for Life

Laura Ghenea

May 07, 2025 |

Transitions Online |

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Response Location: Republic of Moldova

Floare de Cires addresses the employment barriers people with disabilities face by training them in culinary and hospitality skills that help them integrate into the workforce and build a sense of independence.

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Bolivia's Trans Houses: group shelters that seek to change lives

Brenda Villalba

May 06, 2025 |

El Colectivo 506 |

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Response Location: Bolivia

Trans Houses are community shelters created by and for trans women in Bolivia that offer comprehensive health services, psychological support, legal assistance, and entrepreneurship opportunities, evolving from basic assistance spaces into collective emancipation platforms that have served over 2,500 people across four cities and are expanding as a replicable model of social transformation. This story is available in Spanish here: https://solu.news/1qka

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Crisis Survivors in Australia Are Rebuilding Their Wardrobes in Style

MaryLou Costa

May 05, 2025 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: Australia

Thread Together collects unsold, brand-new clothes from fashion retailers that would otherwise end up in landfills and distributes them to people in need across Australia who are facing clothing insecurity after crises such as floods, homelessness or domestic violence. The organization provides dignity-driven choices through mobile wardrobe vans, online "shopping," and local pop-up stores, enabling individuals to rebuild their lives with confidence and dignity.

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