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  • Mobile Health Clinic Unveiled To Serve Uninsured While Lowering Emergency Room Use

    March 21, 2019 |

    KUER Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

    In Utah, expanding health care access is taking shape in the form of RVs equipped with exam rooms, medical assistants and a nurse. Specifically designed to serve uninsured community members, the newest mobile health clinic offers "a specialized focus on women’s health, as well as mental health and substance abuse services, including medication assisted treatment which is used to help wean people of opioids."

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  • Only 13 States Offer Medically Accurate Sex Education. Here's How to Fill in the Gaps

    March 21, 2019 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Kentucky

    In Kentucky, sex education offerings in rural districts is often inconsistent across schools. The “Sexy Sex Ed” workshop aims to provide students with information and resources about consent, safety, and anatomy. “If you provide the basic necessities for young women in public schools to get through their day, they can do anything else,” the founder of the workshop says. “You empower them to do anything else if you meet their basic needs.”

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  • Oregon Leading the Nation in Clearing Backlog of Untested Rape Kits with Survivor-Focused Legislature

    March 20, 2019 |

    University of Oregon |

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    Response Location: United States, Salem, Oregon

    As of 2018, Oregon’s backlog of Sexual Assault Forensic Exam (SAFE) kits had been cleared thanks to the passage of a state bill, commonly referred to as Melissa’s Law. Besides clearing the accumulated kits, the legislation requires police to pick-up the kits from hospitals within seven days of notification and submit SAFE kits for testing within two weeks. Such a response has led to six perpetrators being identified as well as a systemic, patient-driven process for sexual assault survivors.

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  • North Carolina working to erase biggest rape kit backlog in nation

    March 20, 2019 |

    Carolina Public Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Fayetteville, North Carolina

    With the largest backlog of rape kits in the country, North Carolina is taking steps to expedite the process. A key challenge in this effort is the autonomy of police departments to test them at their own discretion. Still, cities like Fayetteville are making headway and seeing results, namely, 37 arrests. On the state level, a bipartisan bill is in motion that would designate $6 million for testing rape kits.

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  • Parkrun Could Save America From Itself

    March 20, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, London, Greater London

    In the United Kingdom, an initiative known as parkrun, is working to bring people together for a weekly free 5K run in order to inspire physical fitness as well as community interaction. Although the US is not seeing as much success with its iteration of the initiative, there are several key lessons – such as corporate sponsorship and government involvement – that the advocates of the initiative can learn from.

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  • What happens when teens teach sex ed

    March 20, 2019 |

    University of Oregon |

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    Response Location: United States, Eugene, Oregon

    At an Oregon high school, students are leading peer sexual education classes. The sessions, which focus on consent, gender and sexuality, and sexual violence, topics often missed in standard curricula, are intended to make students feel more comfortable asking questions.

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  • School meal participation rises statewide, locally

    March 20, 2019 |

    Valley Journal |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Ignatius, Montana

    “Not being hungry is one of our most important considerations for students as far as academic achievement,” says St. Ignatius, Montana Superintendent Jason Sargent. This reasoning has lead the state to implement free school meals to all grade levels as well as offer “grab and go” stations that allow students to take food from the cafeteria with them to their classes.

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  • A new approach: Lane County's efforts to find effective solutions to sex trafficking

    March 20, 2019 |

    University of Oregon |

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    Response Location: United States, Eugene, Oregon

    Lane County, Oregon is one of many of the state’s counties working to create a survivor-focused network of responses to sex trafficking. The Lane County Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children Multidisciplinary Team is seeking to strengthen existing organizations, like the Department of Human Services, Planned Parenthood, and mental health providers, by connecting them – creating a more efficient, effective response to a uniquely challenging issue.

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  • Detroit Pop-up Midwifery Clinic wants to get neighbors talking about birthing options

    March 19, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Despite offering services for expectant mothers, Detroit's infant mortality and less-than-adequate prenatal care rates are both negative outliers when it comes to Michigan's statewide statistics for those figures. Realizing that many women may not be aware of the services available, five women created the Detroit Pop-up Midwifery Clinic that brings the educational resources straight to the people that need them.

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  • Helping the Homeless to Make Their Medical Preferences Known

    March 19, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Venice, California

    When people experiencing homelessness are admitted to a hospital, they don't always have advance care directives in place which takes ownership away from them as far as dictating their treatment, who to contact and what to do with their organs should they die. The St. Robert’s Center in Venice, California is working to change this, however, by bringing the necessary paperwork to those that may need it most.

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