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  • Criminal courts tailored to veterans multiply as wars wind down

    June 30, 2014 |

    Yahoo! News |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    U.S. courts are offering war veterans who face jail time the choice of rehabilitation. This helps them adjust to civilian life and reduces repeat offences.

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  • Salt Lake City a model for S.F. on homeless solutions

    June 28, 2014 |

    San Francisco Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

    San Francisco’s chronically homeless population remains staggeringly high. Salt Lake City has managed to eradicate much of their chronically homeless by geographically placing supportive housing distant from the city’s center and receiving financial assistance from the Mormon Church. The housing is attractive, modern, and offers a good ratio between counselors and homeless clients—all of which helps make the homeless want to stay off the streets.

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  • Call him 'Minimum Mike' if you like, but this Barrow judge is trying something new

    June 12, 2014 |

    Anchorage Daily News |

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    Response Location: United States, Barrow, Alaska

    People affected by fetal alcohol syndrome disorder are more likely to be convicted. In Alaska, one court provides convicts with FASD counselors and patience, making the court system more equitable and hoping to reduce recidivism.

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  • An Antidote to Overdose, in Time to Save Lives

    May 21, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Quincy, Massachusetts

    Naloxone could be the secret to curing New England's heroin consumption. Trying to expand access to the life-saving overdose antidote is the real obstacle.

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  • Rethinking the zero-tolerance policy for juvenile offenders

    April 26, 2014 |

    Fayetteville Observer |

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    Response Location: United States, Jonesboro, Georgia

    The deeper kids get into the court system, the more likely they are to get into bigger trouble - instead of being scared straight, they end up on what researchers call the school-to-prison pipeline. Courts in Clayton County, GA, decrease the number of juveniles that are prosecuted by starting help groups to change behavior and strengthen families, and the initiative has since spread across the country.

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  • Interrupting violence in Brooklyn

    April 08, 2014 |

    MSNBC |

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    In Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood, an organization called Save Our Streets Crown Heights (S.O.S.) is taking steps to disrupt violence. The organization is modeled after Chicago's violence interrupters, which employ people from the neighborhood to connect with those most at-risk and disrupt conflicts and retalitory violence.

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  • In healthcare, what makes Maine different?

    March 19, 2014 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Bangor, Maine

    Northern Maine is home to some of America's poorest - but it ranks high on national measures of health. Hospital programs visit more patients in their homes where they can be more comfortable and receive everything they need, which in turn reduces medical costs.

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  • Teaching Children to Calm Themselves

    March 19, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Kansas

    Children who experience neglect, severe stress or sudden separation at a young age can be traumatized - without appropriate adult support, trauma can interfere with healthy brain development, inhibiting children’s ability to make good decisions, use memory or use sequential thought processes to work through problems. Head Start Trauma Smart helps support traumatized and neglected children from acting out.

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  • Strung out in Tanzania

    March 03, 2014 |

    Al Jazeera |

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    Response Location: Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam

    Less than 1 percent of drug addicts in Africa receive treatment because the issue is disfavored by donors. The national government of Tanzania demanded evidence-based treatment options and is curbing relapses by distributing a drug which temporarily lessens cravings.

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  • Veterans at Home, on a Mission of Compassion

    February 26, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    A program based on the proven idea that helping others is healing, usually more healing than being helped.

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