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  • Hope through heartbreak - Farm and Dairy

    November 16, 2017 |

    Farm and Dairy |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Carroll County, Maryland

    Opioid overdose is a rising problem that is taking more and more lives, including Holly's. Holly's mother started 'Holly's Song of Hope' to help educate the public about drugs and addiction, to provide a support group where people can ask questions and support one another online, and to help make legislative changes.

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  • This Vermont program might reduce sex offender recidivism. Could it work in Philly?

    November 16, 2017 |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    A program called Circles in Vermont is built on the idea that it takes an entire community to help sex offenders reintegrate back into a community. Circles is also used in other states and countries and creates supportive networks of volunteers who offer a safe place for offenders to discuss their triggers and help them build authentic connections and relationships so they are part of the community rather than pushed to the fringes.

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  • Birthing Beautiful Communities: Organization working to change Cleveland's high premature death rate

    November 03, 2017 |

    WEWS-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    Black women in Cleveland have the highest prematurity rate in the country. Birthing Beautiful Communities program acknowledges the stress that this racial disparity creates for mothers, and provides support and education to help women carry their babies to term.

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  • Drug court – giving families a chance to break the cycle of opioid use

    October 23, 2017 |

    The Guardian |

    Photojournalism |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Abingdon, Virginia

    In Washington County, Virginia, a drug court modeled after the federal drug court model is offering opioid addicts a chance to follow a strict program intended to help keep them sober as an alternative to incarceration. Participants are required to maintain full-time employment, subjected to random drug tests, attend mandatory therapy groups, and abide by a curfew. The program is helping addicts maintain sobriety throughout the duration of their enrollment in drug court instead of sending them to prison where they are less likely to have access to these types of addiction services.

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  • This All-Amputee Softball Team is Changing the Way We Think About Treating Trauma

    August 31, 2017 |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Ohio

    As the number of veterans with both physical and psychological injuries balloons, this softball team of 11 wounded warriors wards helps one another deal with war trauma and combat isolation by playing a little ball.

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  • How a New York Police Official Targets Thoughts to Fight Crime

    August 09, 2017 |

    Juvenile Justice Information Exchange |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Suffolk County, New York

    A former prosecutor now works directly with offenders as a deputy police chief in a movement called Council of Thought And Action (COTA), often going directly to them in the community and bringing them together in support groups. The idea is that crime is a result of poor problem solving, and COTA is designed to restructure ways of thinking and behaving, using cognitive therapy tools to address past emotional baggage, and the power of social networks to provide a positive replacement to the destructive networks they had in the past.

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  • Pennsylvania training mentally ill inmates to help others on the cellblock

    August 01, 2017 |

    WHYY |

    Multi-Media |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Pennsylvania

    Peer to peer programs have existed since the 1980s. These programs pair up a person with mental health illness, with one another. The concept, is relatively new in the prison systems, and is gaining traction in states like Pennsylvania.

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  • A Fairhill church is redemption central for ex-offenders

    July 07, 2017 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    A church in Philadelphia is adept at ministering to those coming out of incarceration and drug use because its two pastors come from that very same world. They hold members accountable, which could mean a required stint in rehab before folks can use the various services of the church like housing, food and help with employment. As a result the recidivism rate of members is about five percent, far lower that the state-wide rate.

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  • Addicts Need Help. Jails Could Have the Answer.

    June 16, 2017 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Covington, Kentucky

    Kentucky is rethinking its penal system for dealing with drug offenders and has shown success in reducing recidivism and relapse rates. Instead of leaving addicts to languish in the typical jailhouse environment of "extortion, violence and tedium," more than two dozen of the state's county jails have created separate units devoted to full-time addiction treatment and support-services for prisoners that involve peer-policing.

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  • In Sikkim, football is weaning drug users away from the dark

    June 15, 2017 |

    Livemint |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: India, Sikkim, Gangtok

    For many youth in India, illegal drugs are readily available, but rehab is socially stigmatized, government resources and information for narcotics are sparse, and there are few options for a user looking to get clean. A group of people in recovery in Sikkim has formed a football team as a means to recover, finding social support and exercise that is proven to aid in sustainable rehabilitation from drug use.

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