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  • 4 Out of 5 Black Women Are Overweight. This Group Has the Solution.

    December 19, 2013 |

    NationSwell |

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    Response Location: United States, Henderson, North Carolina

    Obesity has become a health crisis for many women in the African-American community, but a group known as GirlTrek is working to change this by making exercise a social norm and creating supportive connections between women with shared goals. This new organization, which works to identify barriers that many in this community face, channels African-American history to encourage black women to walk their way toward better health.

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  • TurboVote Aims to Make Voting as Easy as Renting a DVD

    December 13, 2013 |

    NationSwell |

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    Response Location: United States

    TurboVote allows users to fill out voter registration forms online and then mails them the paperwork to sign along with a stamped envelope addressed to the user’s local election office. The site also sends email and text reminders for mailing deadlines and polling place locations to its over 200,000 registered users. TurboVote partners with 68 universities, where many students are first-time voters and/or need to register at a new address. Students at partner universities receive the forms for free (otherwise it costs $1.60 per form) and popup windows on university websites remind students to register.

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  • Education in Indian Country: Obstacles and Opportunity

    December 04, 2013 |

    Education Week |

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    Response Location: United States, Oglala, South Dakota

    Native American student graduation rates are much lower than that of any other demographic. The Red Cloud school teaches students on a reservation in South Dakota about the Lakota history to empower the kids and encourage resilience.

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  • How Houston Solved Its Rape Kit Problem

    November 20, 2013 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

    Most U.S. cities are sitting on thousands of backlogged rape kits that have gone untested. Yet in 2010, Houston (under newly elected Mayor Annise Parker) began an effort that ultimately eliminated its own staggering backlog of 16,000.

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  • The women who bear the scars of Sierra Leone's civil war

    November 16, 2013 |

    The Telegraph |

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    Response Location: Sierra Leone, Binkolo, Bombali District

    The bloody civil war that tore through Sierra Leone for over a decade was one of the most devastating and violent in Africa's modern history. Those that suffered most were usually young woman, forced into combat, displaced, repeatedly raped and beaten. It has taken years for those who lived through the conflict to reclaim a normal life. One of the most powerful tools that many women leveraged were grassroots initiatives, funded by various NGOs, that the girls designed and led themselves, funding small businesses, support groups, and community projects.

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  • Red Hook community court is a success: study

    November 12, 2013 |

    New York Daily News |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Jailing convicted criminals has shown that it neither changes illegal behavior, nor reduces the rate of re-incarceration. Brooklyn’s Red Hood Community Justice Center has given many guilty defendants of minor crimes treatment and individual assistance without incarceration. A new survey shows that community courts reduce costs, decrease jailed inmates, and drop the crime rate.

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  • How can Milwaukee County's broken mental health system be fixed?

    November 05, 2013 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

    Milwaukee County’s mental health system put more resources in expensive emergency care rather than invest in programs that offer continual care. As a result, Milwaukee County identifies nine solutions from other cities that have had success in repairing mental health systems. Solutions include the ending of reliance on emergency care, expand community support programs, change laws, and supportive housing.

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  • Syrian teachers find solace in Turkish classrooms

    October 20, 2013 |

    ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) |

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    Response Location: Turkey, Kilis

    Instead of outsourcing workers the International Blue Crescent relief agency, and Jordan's al-Zaatari cams, is employing Syrian refugees as teachers, doctors, and nurses. The aim is to create a self-sustainable refugee population. Leaders say it also gives Syrian refugees a renewed sense of hope and meaning “For those who are working in the camps or in (the IBC's) projects, they feel very good because they are guiding their community."

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  • Here Comes the Neighborhood (2013)

    October 19, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Mount Laurel, New Jersey

    An affordable housing development in Mount Laurel, N.J., holds promise for integration by placing the development in an upscale suburban area. Since 140 affordable units were built in 2000, there has been no effect on crime rates, property values, or taxes, in reference to nearby suburbs.

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  • Syria's refugee children haunted by horrors of war

    September 22, 2013 |

    ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) |

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    Response Location: Turkey, Kilis

    Child Friendly Spaces in Kilis, a city with a huge Syrian refugee population, and UNICEF’s art program in Jordan’s refugee camp, try to address the mental health of refugees, who are often dealing with great trauma. “If we think these refugees only need food, clothes or medicine, we are looking at them like animals.” Organizers that run these programs say these programs are critical and needed to address the psychological effects of war.

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