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  • Rwanda's Model: Progress, With More Work Ahead

    September 05, 2019 |

    U.S. News & World Report |

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    Response Location: Rwanda, Kigali

    Enrolling local agents allows global partners to connect underserved and remote communities to healthcare. A partnership between Rwanda’s Health Ministry and the Boston-based nonprofit, Partners in Health, trains community-based health workers to communicate and connect people on the ground to health services across the country. Rwanda has also implemented reforms and services such as government-subsided healthcare, which has helped improve the life expectancy of its citizens.

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  • In a Tight Labor Market, a Disability May Not Be a Barrier

    September 05, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Round Rock, Texas

    With the assistance of a local non-profit partner, Dell Technologies created a program to recruit employees on the autism spectrum to tap into an under-utilized section of the labor pool. Dell Technologies reflects the national trend to open opportunities to individuals not targeted in current recruiting practices, including stay-at-home parents and retirees as well as people with disabilties.

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  • Project Oklahoma: Miami school district creates new program to keep teachers

    September 05, 2019 |

    KTUL-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Tulsa, Oklahoma

    To stop teachers from leaving the state, the Tulsa, Oklahoma, school district developed a mentoring and professional development program. Compared to four years ago, when the state lost 37 teachers to neighboring states, in the most recent school year, this number was down to two.

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  • The city with a radical approach to mental illness

    September 05, 2019 |

    Broadview Magazine |

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    Response Location: Belgium, Geel

    Normalizing mental health care helps create inclusive communities. In Geel, in Belgium, centuries of pilgrims seeking the blessing of Dymphna, the city’s patron saint of mental illness, have created a culture of community mental health care. Families provide a system of ongoing care by taking in boarders.The state supports the family-care system by offering small stipends and also by providing for clinics, schools, and other institutions.

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  • Mesa Public Schools working to beef up campus security

    September 05, 2019 |

    KPHO-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Mesa, Arizona

    The Mesa public school district has added new safety features to its buildings to prevent threats and better prepare students in the case of a shooting. One significant upgrade has been the addition of an accessible blue light system to the typical over-the-loudspeaker lockdown announcements.

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  • China's Halting Leap Forward With Childhood Cancer Care

    September 05, 2019 |

    U.S. News & World Report |

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    Response Location: China, Shanghai

    Despite being faced with many limitations, China is trying to improve treatments and overall outcomes for childhood cancer patients. Although the country is still pushing for further success, hospitals so far have seen an improvement in diagnosis rates, coverage rates and survival rates across China due to better data sharing and collaboration efforts.

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  • Regaining Innocence in Rural America

    September 05, 2019 |

    U.S. News & World Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Depending on location and socio-economics, treating childhood cancer looks different for many families. In Washington, organizations are cognizant of this gap and are aiming to eliminate barriers for these families by increasing access to resources.

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  • LGBTQ Asylum Seekers Face Layered Marginalization, So These Four Organizations Are Here to Help

    September 05, 2019 |

    Teen Vogue |

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    Response Location: United States

    LGBTQ asylum seekers face a unique set of problems coming to the United States, often from places where gender expression and sexuality are strictly regulated. Four organizations across the US, Mexico, and Canada are filling this unique niche. For example, AsylumConnect created an app of resources on how to apply for asylum and a catalogue of LGBTQ-friendly services and organizations in the US for them to learn about. All four aim to validate LGBTQ asylum seekers and keep them safe.

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  • The Kids Are Alright, and They're Fixing Their Neighborhoods After Natural Disasters

    September 05, 2019 |

    NationSwell |

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    Response Location: United States, Rockaway, New York

    In starkly unequal Rockaway, Queens, New York, a group of 60 young people organize grassroots campaigns to equalize outcomes across race and class lines in the Rockaway Youth Task Force. Just a year after its founding Hurricane Sandy hit, and the RYTF really came into its own when it turned a vacant, half-acre lot into a thriving youth-run farm. The group also successfully lobbied the city to extend a bus line that gave over 10,000 more residents transportation access.

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  • Knocking on doors, BPS superintendent stresses school attendance

    September 04, 2019 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    This fall, a group of volunteers, led by Boston Public Schools' superintendent, went door to door to talk with students who had previously shown patterns of absenteeism. The effort, one part of the city's effort to reduce chronic absences, is intended to show students that adults in the community are invested in their success.

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