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They Make Gourmet Products and Pull Women Out of Poverty. Meet the Women's Bean Project.

Jennifer Oldham

May 22, 2018 |

Slate |

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Response Location: United States, Denver

The Women's Bean Project is a successful social enterprise that helps women experiencing poverty - for whatever reason - to gain the skills necessary to retain jobs through classes and experience on an assembly line. Approximately 93% of program graduates have retained a job after a year, an impressive statistic for most social enterprises.

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Opioid Crisis Compels New York to Look North for Answers

J. David Goodman

May 21, 2018 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Canada, Toronto, Ontario

Supervised injection sites in Canada have prevented hundreds of heroin overdose deaths. Now, New York City is looking to follow Canada's lead with a city-wide initiative to establish safe injection sites. While the Trump Administration is not in support of such sites, experts believe that it is unlikely that the federal government would interfere with a site if a city is in support of it.

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With compassionate outreach, a city cuts its drug overdose rate in half

Christa Case Bryant

May 21, 2018 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Huntington, West Virginia

In Huntington, West Virginia, an team modeled off the highly successful Quick Response Team outside of Cincinnati is showing similar results in cutting down deaths caused by addiction. The Quick Response Team ensures that every overdose survivor receives a follow-up visit within 72 hours, a strategy that is also helping to build personal relationships and help them find more services.

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New Hampshire syringe programs: 'Meeting people where they're at'

Shawne K. Wickham

May 19, 2018 |

New Hampshire Union Leader |

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Response Location: United States, Rochester, New Hampshire

Hand Up Health Services is a syringe services program that provides clean needles to addicts, also known as “needles exchange” programs. The program is only one of two in New Hampshire. While there's a lot of stigma behind these types of programs, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions shows that “ people who inject drugs are five times more likely to enter treatment if they connect with an SSP.”

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'Care BnB'- the town where mentally ill people lodge with locals

Jennifer Rankin

May 18, 2018 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: Belgium, Geel

Residents of a small town in Belgium take in "boarders", people who have disabilities that render them unable to live alone. Many of these boarders stay with their host families for several decades, and they all participate in household duties so that both family and boarder benefits. This solution allows people who might otherwise have to live in a facility to integrate into society and live as normally as possible.

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Everyone is welcome: the only gay hangout in the Arab world

Saeed Kamali Dehghan

May 17, 2018 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: Lebanon, Beirut

From giving refuge to offering makeup sessions, Helem is an umbrella for some of Lebanon’s most marginalised people

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Kids Say #MeToo After Each Performance of This Play

Meera Vijayann

May 16, 2018 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, Virginia

Since the mid-1980s, Prevent Child Abuse Virginia (PCAV) has used theater to teach elementary and middle school students about sexual abuse and in the process empower them to report it. Over the course of 34 years, 13,000 students have disclosed their abuse experiences following a viewing of the play. “Many parents are very uncomfortable talking to their children about personal body safety because it gets all mixed up with the sex conversation,” executive director of PCAV explains. "The messages in the play fill the gap left behind by ineffective policy and cultural roadblocks," the author says.

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Want to Quit the Gang Life? Try This Job On

Tina Rosenberg

May 15, 2018 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

Being in a gang or selling drugs is risky and often poorly paid, but many people caught up in it see too many obstacles in alternate paths to change. Readi Chicago addresses these barriers with cognitive behavioral therapy and subsidized jobs that allow participants to gradually build up skills and move into better positions. But the most important people are the outreach workers, many of whom came out of incarceration or gang life, and can build relationships to convince people to sign up.

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How one rural California county went from the state's highest rate of opioid deaths — to zero

Elizabeth Zach

May 14, 2018 |

Center for Health Journalism |

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Response Location: United States, Portola, California

Plumas County had one of the highest rates of opioid deaths in the state of California. So, 24 coalitions banded together and formed an umbrella group in order to address the problem. “Plumas County went from having the highest rate of overdoses in California to the lowest.”

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Reversing an Overdose

Sydney Schaefer

May 12, 2018 |

Temple University |

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Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

A significant spike in opioid-related overdose deaths in Philadelphia has resulted in more people in the community carrying Naloxone, an opioid overdose reversal medication. Thanks to a standing order signed by the Pennsylvania physician general as well as a local health insurance company, obtaining the drug has been made much easier which in turn results in more lives potentially being saved.

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