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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Binge drinking in Wisconsin is just their culture, right? Except in one county.

    June 24, 2015 |

    Upworthy |

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    Response Location: United States, Marquette, Wisconsin

    Marquette County outmatched the rest of Wisconsin in binge-drinking rates back in 2005. By 2012, instead of going up by 5% like the rest of Wisconsin did, Marquette county reduced theirs by 15%. Evidence points to the Healthy Communities Healthy Youth initiative launched in 2003.

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  • Depressed? Try Therapy Without the Therapist

    June 19, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Australia

    MoodGYM is an online program targeted to help those suffering from depression for whom it is a challenge to access therapy because of location or the stigma it carries. Essentially a therapy session in your pocket, the program allows users to access help at little to no cost, regardless of where they are or what time of day it is.

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  • In Los Angeles, a national model for how to police the mentally ill

    June 15, 2015 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    How are people with mental illness policed in the U.S.? Unfortunately, often people with mental illness are sent to prison, instead of being treated. There are “10 times as many inmates diagnosed with severe mental illness in the penal system as patients in state mental institutes.” However, in Los Angeles police are paired with mental health clinicians. A move that is saving the city money, and keeping people out of prison.

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  • Reading, Writing, Required Silence: How Meditation is Changing Schools and Students

    June 12, 2015 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Silence can be hard to come by for students at New York City schools, contributing to increased stress. Some schools in New York are incorporating meditation to give their students time to relax and calm their inner minds after studying all day.

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  • Teaching women to fight today could stop rapes tomorrow

    June 11, 2015 |

    Quartz |

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    Response Location: United States, Miami, Florida

    “Empowerment self-defense” teaches women how to defend themselves against sexual assault, psychological awareness, and how to be verbally assertive. A study showed that women who took empowerment self defense classes saw a “46% reduction in completed rape and a 63% reduction in attempted sexual assault.”

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  • College Rape Prevention Program Proves a Rare Success

    June 10, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Canada, Calgary, Alberta

    Sexual violence is a serious hazard on college campuses - by some estimates, one in five female students are raped, and women tend to be at the greatest risk during their first year on campus. But a program that trained first-year female college students at various Canadian colleges to avoid rape substantially lowered their risk of being sexually assaulted, a rare success against a problem that has been resistant to many prevention efforts.

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  • Teaching women self-defence still the best way to reduce sexual assaults: study

    June 10, 2015 |

    The Globe and Mail |

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    Response Location: Canada, Calgary, Alberta

    In the debate over how to reduce sexual assault on university campuses, proposing self-defense classes for women is controversial. But, according to new landmark Canadian research, it works.

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