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  • What legislators can learn from a Boston public housing development

    October 02, 2020 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Over the four decades that a major Boston public housing development was run by a tenant management corporation (TMC), residents' safety and relations with police improved in ways that serve as lessons today as gun violence in neighborhoods with high poverty rates has prompted debates over reimagining public safety. As the first of many TMCs in the nation, the one at the Mildred C. Hailey Apartments lowered crime by changing the dynamic between residents and police, through greater community control. The TMC, with its own police department, was disbanded in 2012. Crime since has gone up there.

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  • Carlsbad Literacy Program begins in-person instruction after months of closure

    October 02, 2020 |

    Las Cruces Sun-News |

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    Response Location: United States, Carlsbad, New Mexico

    The Carlsbad Literacy Program provides free tutoring to adults who want help with their literacy skills. The program's students in the program include English language learners, and also helps with citizenship skills, and preparing for the High School Equivalency Test. The program is a nonprofit, which started in 1985, and relies on volunteers to serve as tutors.

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  • 'A New Generation of Poll Workers' Steps Up to Ensure Safe, Fair Elections Audio icon

    October 01, 2020 |

    Ms. Magazine |

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    New groups are recruiting poll workers to help fill shortages made worse by Covid-19. Poll Hero Project is an initiative created and led by young people that has recruited over 28,000 high school and college-age poll workers using social media. Power the Polls is a coalition of well-known brands that used social media outreach, digital marketing, and celebrity promotions to sign up over 530,000 volunteers. Both groups help navigate what can be a complicated process to sign up to work the polls.

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  • Laughter May Be Effective Medicine for These Trying Times

    October 01, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Because studies indicate that humor has positive health benefits, some doctors and psychotherapists are now using humor tactics in their practice and prescribing prescriptions for their patients to find ways to laugh more as a means of staying healthy during the coronavirus pandemic. Although doctors risk the possibility of sounding insensitive or making light of pain, formal humor programs and laughter lessons have shown success with patients.

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  • Seniors Stay Connected Despite COVID-19

    October 01, 2020 |

    Rafu Shimpo |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Senior citizens in Los Angeles are coping with isolation during these times of social distancing by learning how to use technology that will connect them to their loved ones. Technology training specifically geared to the elderly include lessons about social media, making zoom calls, and using tablets and smart phones. Seniors are also being supported through home deliveries and weekly phone calls just to check in and say 'hi'.

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  • The Black Doctors Working To Make Coronavirus Testing More Equitable

    October 01, 2020 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Comprised of doctors, nurses, and medical students, the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium is helping to bring free coronavirus testing to Black Philadelphians who are "contracting the coronavirus and dying from COVID-19 at greater rates than everyone else." The program, which offers testing via mobile test units to around 350 per day, has gained the recognition throughout the city, resulting in funding from city leaders, foundations, and individuals.

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  • After 7 years of voting by mail, Colorado voters aren't taken in by absentee ballot drama

    October 01, 2020 |

    Coloradoan |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Colorado's mandatory, all-mail balloting system encounters very few cases of fraud or mistake while making voting easier and more accessible to all voters. Everyone who applies for a driver's license or Medicaid gets registered. Since 2013, ballots are mailed to all registered voters. The state eased into that system by first fulfilling mail-in ballots by request – something 70% of voters already were doing by the time the system became mandatory. One former secretary of state cautions that voter list maintenance is a daunting challenge. But the state's system is often called the most secure in the country.

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  • Empowering the survivor voting block Audio icon

    October 01, 2020 |

    Boulder Weekly |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Colorado’s Address Confidentiality Program (ACP) helps survivors of domestic violence and sexual abuse keep their physical addresses private. Registering to vote requires an address, which is part of the public record. The ACP program can also be used to enroll children in schools, on their driver’s licenses, and in court. ACP works with the postal service to create ghost addresses for survivors and it serves as the only place where the addresses are known. Four thousand people are currently using the service and up to 9,000 have used it since it began.

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  • Missing students: Educators knock on doors to find them Audio icon

    October 01, 2020 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Apps that track students’ online activity, door-to-door visits, and receiving input from families on how to reopen schools, are all ways school districts across the country are responding to absenteeism during the pandemic. In one San Antonio district, they were able to locate around 2,900 of the 3,000 students who weren’t showing up to classes.

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  • A tiny house, a big step

    October 01, 2020 |

    Boulder Weekly |

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    Response Location: United States, Boulder, Colorado

    Tiny home communities across several American cities have helped alleviate homelessness amongst veterans with the work done by the Veterans Community Project (VCP). The organization has successfully housed and served homeless veterans by designing and building tiny home villages which partner with existing local organizations to provide wraparound services to help keep people off the streets. VCP has successfully deployed the housing-first model in Kansas City, Portland, Detroit, and LA and is now breaking ground in Boulder County for its latest project.

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