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  • The answer to America's health care cost problem might be in Maryland

    January 22, 2020 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: United States, Maryland

    Maryland's health care system is based on three pillars – all-payer rate setting, a global budget, and total cost of care – that, together, have shown positive results both for the patients and for the state's hospitals. Although evidence of success with regard to health care costs is limited, the model of incentiving investment in community health and preventive care has shown success in reducing readmission rates for hospitals across the state.

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  • Meet ‘Firefighter' in Middle of New York Hospital's War Against Gun Violence

    January 21, 2020 |

    Juvenile Justice Information Exchange |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Guns Down Life Up intervenes immediately after incidents of gun violence to prevent retaliation, but then goes further to counsel at-risk youth and to provide victim counseling to help families in the wake of violence. Part of a growing movement of hospital-based violence intervention, the group’s “credible messengers” work in Harlem and South Bronx hospitals to interrupt the cycles of violence that often result in repeat victimization, which anecdotally at least it can show has worked. Then its counseling gives youth safe activities off the streets and teaches better conflict mediation tactics.

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  • Project Oklahoma: New activity-based learning program helping elementary students

    January 21, 2020 |

    KTUL-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Tulsa, Oklahoma

    What if kids were allowed to bounce on yoga balls or draw while they were learning to read? Some teachers and researchers in Oklahoma believe "action-based learning" can help students with behavioral challenges.

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  • How 17 Outsize Portraits Rattled a Small Southern Town

    January 21, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Newnan, Georgia

    The small Southern city of Newnan, GA considered themselves to be a fairly open and accepting place. This attitude was shattered when 17 huge portraits of ordinary people who make up Newnan were hung across the city and prompted a racially-tinged backlash. The purpose of the portraits was to open up a dialogue around the diversity in the city, but it also exposed new and hidden racial tensions. The portraits were ultimately allowed to stay up, but the conversations surrounding the issue are ongoing.

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  • Students in the U.S. and Iraq Discover Common Ground

    January 20, 2020 |

    Al-Fanar Media |

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    Response Location: Iraq, Mosul

    A program that was inspired by rising racial tensions is helping students from Pennsylvania State University and the University of Mosul in Iraq erase misconceptions about each other’s cultures. Participants of the “World in Conversation Program,” gather for virtual conversations and talk about their issues, concerns, and daily life. The program is helping them dismantle stereotypes they might have of Arabs and Americans. “I want to show them who we really are, beyond the stereotypes in the media.”

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  • A Vision for a Just recovery - La Marana's work Post Hurricane Maria

    January 20, 2020 |

    New Haven Independent |

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    Response Location: United States, Puerto Rico

    La Maraña, a nonprofit in Puerto Rico, created a model for how communities could recover from disasters like the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria in 2017. By including community voices in the design and planning process of recovery projects — which can focus on water, food, energy, roads, communication, or security — the organization hopes the projects are more likely to succeed and promote longterm community civic engagement.

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  • À Mitrovica, le rock pour lutter contre les divisions entre Albanais et Serbes au Kosovo

    January 20, 2020 |

    Equal Times |

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    Response Location: Kosovo, Mitrovica

    Au Kosovo, cette école de musique contre les conflits entre Serbe et Albanais en formant des groupes de musique mixtes. En onze ans, la Rock school Mitrovica a vu passer plus de 1.100 jeunes dans ses locaux et elle accueille aujourd’hui environ 80 élèves par an.

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  • The Mitrovica Rock School: bridging the divide between Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo

    January 20, 2020 |

    Equal Times |

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    Response Location: Kosovo, Mitrovica

    Music can bridge cultural divides. The Mitrovica Rock School in Mitroviva, Kosovo, encourages young musicians of Albanian and Serbian backgrounds to create music together. The culturally “mixed” bands play across Kosovo. The rock school was founded through a collaboration between Musicians Without Borders and Community Building Mitrovica after Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia.

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  • This innovative chorus smashes racial barriers in Columbus. Could it work in Philly?

    January 20, 2020 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Founded in 2009 in Columbus, Ohio, the Harmony Project brings together people of various musical experience, races, income levels, and professional backgrounds to sing as one. The project aims to get people out of their comfort zones and silos in a segregated city.

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  • Youth Teaching Tech To Seniors Fosters Generational Connections

    January 20, 2020 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Albuquerque, New Mexico

    How does one Albuquerque organization address social isolation among senior citizens? It recruits teens to teach technologies 101. Teeniors creates intergenerational relationships by encouraging teens to spend time with seniors and teach them how to adequately use technology like smart phones or computer applications.

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