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  • Pennsylvania will no longer hold death-row prisoners in endless solitary confinement

    November 18, 2019 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Pennsylvania

    Following an ACLU-led civil-rights lawsuit, the Pennsylvania Department of Correction has implemented huge changes to the treatment of death row inmates. In prisons across the state, individuals who have been sentenced to death no longer have to undergo strip searches, are allowed to have contact visitations with family and friends, can apply for prison employment, and socialize with others in their unit.

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  • Houston, we have a solution: How the city curbed homelessness

    November 18, 2019 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

    Across the country, governments at every level are working to tackle homelessness. In Houston, connecting permanent housing to services has proven an effective strategy but it has required an increase in affordable housing stock and more strategic organization between non-profits and officials.

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  • The judge, jury and lawyers are kids. But punishments at N.J. youth court are real.

    November 18, 2019 |

    NJ Advance Media |

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    Response Location: United States, Newark, New Jersey

    The 10-year-old Newark Youth Court has heard some 700 cases in which high school students serve as judge, jury, and lawyers in proceedings that avoid school discipline or criminal charges with creative exercises in personal accountability. Taking aim at fights, disruptive behavior, or more serious offenses involving weapons or drugs. the Youth Court seeks to encourage better life choices. Outcomes may exclude punishment altogether, imposing community service (including Youth Court jury duty) or other alternatives to jail, avoiding criminal records that can ruin someone's future.

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  • More Seattleites are housing homeless people in their backyards, but it's hard to find the right fit

    November 18, 2019 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    In Seattle, the BLOCK project started two years ago to build houses for those experiencing homelessness in backyards. While the project has slow-going - with only 9 matches between families and an unhoused person completed - that's in part because the non-profit is incredibly deliberate about its process in recognition of some controversy the idea has recieved.

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  • Indigenous-wildlife ranger collaboration conserves rare Australian rainforests

    November 18, 2019 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Australia, Western Australia

    Revegetation and fire management practices are helping to preserve Australia’s biodiversity. In Western Australia, collaborative efforts between Environs Kimberley, an environmental NGO, and local rangers from the First Nation communities of the Dampier Peninsula are working to document, conserve, and manage the region’s monsoon vine thickets (MVT). As part of the Kimberley Nature Project (KNP), local rangers employ traditional methods like seasonal burns to allow for revegetation and to reduce the threat of larger bushfires.

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  • Farm-to-school programs revitalize health in nutritionally underserved communities

    November 18, 2019 |

    Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Mesa, Arizona

    Over 40,000 U.S. schools take part in a program called Farm to School, which teaches students healthy eating habits through lessons in school gardens.

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  • Sesame and the IRC join forces to help Syrian refugee children

    November 17, 2019 |

    60 Minutes |

    Broadcast TV Programs |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Jordan

    Sesame Street has long been used as an educational tool for children throughout the U.S., but a partnership between the International Rescue Committee and Sesame Workshop is expanding the reach of the popular television program. Together, the IRC and Sesame Workshop have now created a version of the show that specifically targets issues faced by children in refugee camps with the goal of enhancing both emotional and educational well-being.

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  • America's sexual education system is broken. Can this chatbot be the solution?

    November 17, 2019 |

    Vox |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    Planned Parenthood and other organizations are developing new ways to deliver sex education to students. While creators recognize their tools aren't comprehensive solutions, they see chatbots, videos, and other sources as supplements to the current school curricula.

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  • Chicago Police Hope To Build Trust With Experiment In Community Policing

    November 17, 2019 |

    WBEZ |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Chicago police have rebuilt some of the trust they lost in one part of the city, where the police department has used private funding to launch a community-policing program. In the department's 25th district, residents get to know their neighborhood officers and can call them directly, something they did 20,000 times in just the first nine months of the pilot project. "Community ambassadors" serve as liaisons between officers and neighbors who are leery of connecting with the police whose department's brutality and misconduct strained relations over many years. The city is working to expand the program.

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  • King County may borrow an idea from Australia to reduce youth homelessness. Readers wanted to know: How much does it cost?

    November 16, 2019 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: Australia

    In Australia, a universal survey in several secondary schools helps to identify students who are at risk of becoming homeless and connects them with wraparound services. The prevention-based model may soon be piloted in King County, Washington.

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