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  • How One Hospital Is Trying to Curb Gun Violence By Treating It Like Substance Abuse

    August 13, 2015 |

    The Trace |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Patients who come to a hospital for gunshot wounds are more likely to suffer another gun injury or commit a crime. To stop this cycle, a hospital in Seattle pairs patients with social workers who follow up with patients, an approach that mirrors substance abuse intervention programs.

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  • Achieving Mental Health Parity: Slow Going Even In ‘Pace Car' State

    August 13, 2015 |

    KFF Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    California has taken perhaps the most proactive stance in the nation in enforcing laws to ensure people with mental illnesses have fair and timely access to care. But even in this state, it’s proving difficult to ensure mental patients truly have equal access to treatment. New laws aim to hold insurers and health care providers accountable.

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  • LA Sheriff plans dramatic expansion of mental health policing

    July 23, 2015 |

    Southern California Public Radio (KPCC) |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    The struggle of police in properly dealing with mentally ill citizens has been highlighted in recent news. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department plans to dramatically beef up its mental health policing capabilities, according to a newly-released report that provides a county-wide roadmap for county law enforcement's handling of suspects experiencing a mental health crisis.

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  • A circle of moms: MAHEC finds success with group care model

    July 18, 2015 |

    Citizen-Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Asheville, North Carolina

    Expecting mothers, especially young ones, can often feel scared and unprepared about the pregnancy process. Maternity meeting groups help them gain more support and knowledge about their future pregnancies.

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  • Elsa's Story

    July 17, 2015 |

    The Denver Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Boulder, Colorado

    Children across the U.S. experience gender confusion, causing emotional stress in themselves and their family. Gender identity counselors and gender youth clinics are being created in multiple states to help families find peace in their situation.

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  • What If Schools Hired Dogs As Therapists?

    July 09, 2015 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

    Students who are suffering from stress outside of the classroom can often be emotionally hard to reach. A California elementary school uses a faculty dog to help ease the stress of students who come from difficult backgrounds.

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  • Paying People to Be Healthy Usually Works, if the Public Can Stomach It

    July 06, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Many Americans have unhealthy habits which increase their likelihood of getting sick at the cost of taxpayer dollars. Paying people to drop their unhealthy habits has been proven to be an effective way to keep people healthy and save taxpayer dollars.

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  • 7 solutions that could help stop rape on the night shift

    June 30, 2015 |

    Reveal |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    The night shift janitor is an easy target. Working in isolation, cleaners across the country say they have been harassed, assaulted and raped by supervisors and co-workers while tidying office buildings, shopping malls and universities, as our investigation exposed.

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  • The ‘win-win-win' Tompkins could use to help jailed veterans

    June 30, 2015 |

    The Ithaca Voice |

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    Response Location: United States, Buffalo, New York

    Over 220 Veterans Treatment Courts have been created across the United States, each of which helps provide services like rehabilitation and support groups instead of jail time to veterans. Courts in Ithaca, New York are thinking about implementing such programs and are looking to places like Buffalo, which has seen a decreased recidivism rate to just five percent.

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  • How football moved the goalposts for girls in rural India

    June 29, 2015 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: India, Jharkhand

    Girls in India are sometimes forced into the prospects of child marriage, prostitution, or slave labor; alternatively, families often teach girls to be wives and mothers. To empower girls to make their own choices, Yuwa, an NGO based in India, introduces girls to sports for social development. Yuwa also promotes educational workshops for girls, where girls can discuss women’s rights and their thoughts about their own bodies.

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