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  • Volusia County couple offers clean start to homeless residents

    March 21, 2024 |

    Daytona Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New Smyrna Beach, Florida

    A mobile shower facility called God’s Bathouse stops at churches in Florida to provide a safe environment for people experiencing homelessness to take a hot shower and address their health maintenance needs.

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  • Solving chronic absenteeism is 'a people business'

    March 20, 2024 |

    Ashland Source |

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    Response Location: United States, Ashland, Ohio

    After chronic absenteeism rates spiked during the pandemic, staff and administrators in Ashland CIty Schools emphasized building strong relationships with students and their families, making it easier to intervene in cases of significant absences. School leaders say it’s part of a strategy that has helped chronic absenteeism rates drop by roughly 14 percent year over year.

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  • Months after devastating floods, Vermont renews efforts to aid climate-friendly rebuilds

    March 20, 2024 |

    Energy News Network |

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    Response Location: United States, Hardwick, Vermont

    After extreme flooding damaged homes, the energy efficiency utility Efficiency Vermont offered emergency flood rebates to those impacted. Recovery teams helped people plan and find funding to repair and replace energy systems and appliances with more efficient models that will help them reach their decarbonization goals. In this circumstance, exceptions were made to include rebates for high-efficiency fossil fuel systems, too.

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  • 19 Years On, Nigeria's School Feeding Program Still Falls Short

    March 20, 2024 |

    The Solutions Paper |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Enugu State

    The National Home Grown School Feeding program provides food to schoolchildren to support their health and education while simultaneously supporting local cooks and farmers. During its operation, the program reached millions of students across 3o states and led to a 20% increase in primary school enrollment.

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  • Nonprofits Successfully Challenge Red State Restrictions on Abortion

    March 20, 2024 |

    Governing |

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    Response Location: United States

    In response to varying abortion bans across states, nonprofit organizations are emerging to help women in states with strict abortion laws access the care they need. Nonprofits like the Center for Reproductive Rights, Northwest Abortion Access Fund and Indigenous Idaho Alliance provide women with free abortion pills, help them travel out of state for care and even challenge local courts attempting to pass strict trigger laws.

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  • Florida is paying bounty hunters to control its python population

    March 19, 2024 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: United States, Florida

    Python removal agents with South Florida’s Water Management District hunt the invasive Burmese python in the Florida Everglades to prevent the snakes from continuing to destroy the ecosystem. Since launching the program in 2017, agents have removed 8,565 pythons across the state.

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  • Could ranked-choice voting take the poison out of politics?

    March 19, 2024 |

    WBUR |

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    Response Location: United States

    After Alaska and Maine implemented ranked-choice voting, which allows citizens to rank candidates in the order of their preference, voters reported feeling more engaged in the process and noticing less extreme rhetoric among politicians running for office. Despite efforts to repeal the system on the basis that it is confusing, about 70 percent of voters ranked more than one candidate on their ballot.

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  • Manhattan Tries New Approach to Avoid Court for Low-Level Crimes

    March 19, 2024 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    To keep low-level crime cases out of the court process, courts in Manhattan are allowing people to take workshops on overdose intervention, social resilience, or restorative justice instead. The aim is to provide early intervention in cases that will likely be dismissed, prevent potential collateral consequences of having a charge on record, and free up staff to focus on issues like violent crime.

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  • 'It's OK to ask for assistance': How UNC's elite athletes use mental health as an edge

    March 19, 2024 |

    The Daily Tar Heel |

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    Response Location: United States, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

    The Carolina Athletics Mental Health and Performance Psychology Program works with university sport teams in weekly sports psychology meetings, where student athletes can discuss their mental health concerns and learn ways to overcome them. The Program currently has three licensed mental health clinicians on staff and hopes to hire more.

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  • 'It's about the process': Art therapy provides creative outlet as mental health care

    March 19, 2024 |

    The Daily Tar Heel |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    Art therapy is a growing practice that helps people access and assess their emotions through visual and performing arts like painting and dancing.

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