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  • In California, a data-driven 'life boat' for those transitioning out of foster care

    When youth leave foster care, they can have incredible difficulties finding employment, housing, and transitioning into a life beyond the challenges of foster care. In California, First Place for Youth is a non-profit that uses a data-driven approach to measure their impact on the young people to whom they provide apartments and assign advocates.

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  • Hope for the Future: Alaskan Community Works to Revive Native Languages

    In the early 2000s, the only remaining speakers of three Native languages in Ketchikan, Alaska were in their early 80s or 90s. In order to preserve the languages and encourage the myriad positive physical and mental benefits that come with reconnecting with a Native language, the Ketchikan Indian Community developed a mentorship program in which a fluent elder teaches a younger member of the community one of the languages.

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  • Can religion solve El Salvador's gang problem?

    For many in El Salvador, finding religion can mean finding a way out of violent gang life. The country has become one of the most violent in the world following the civil war in the 1980s that drove refugees to the U.S., where their children formed gangs and then brought them back home when they were deported. Pentecostalist churches founded by former gang members have often stepped in where civil institutions have failed, offering a sense of belonging and sometimes jobs to those who want to leave gang life, but their longterm success in rehabilitation remains unclear.

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  • Last year, 39 UK youths were fatally stabbed. None were in Scotland. Why?

    Glasgow used to be called the murder capital of Western Europe until officials decided to tackle violent crime with a public health focus, using tactics similar to those used to control epidemics. A carrot and stick approach included harsher sentences for possessing a knife, but also an array of services designed to connect gang kids with jobs, housing, therapy and education. Violence dropped dramatically as much of the gang infrastructure was dismantled, so other cities are exploring adopting the model.

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  • In El Salvador, this program lays out a path to escape gang violence

    YouthBuild El Salvador is a program, partly funded by the United States, that teaches participants leadership and marketable skills, with an underlying emphasis on empathy, responsibility, and conflict resolution. In a country wrought with violence and gang activity, the hope is to give participants another option. At the end of their time in the program, participants are more likely to find employment – something that is hard to come by in the country.

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  • This Anti-Violence Program Has Been Proven to Cut Crime. Can It Work in Baltimore?

    Massachusetts' Roca program uses five sites in the state to teach young men in their late teens and early 20s coping strategies to solve personal problems and change their behavior. The program targets men with previous criminal problems who actively resist other services and therapy, and who are deemed at high risk of violence. More than 80 percent of its graduates, who number more than 850 per year, have no new arrests, and two-thirds hold jobs six months after finishing the program. Seeing this success, Baltimore has committed $17 million in private and public funds to open a Roca chapter.

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  • Whose nature? Colorado leads push to democratize the outdoors.

    Those living in low-income neighborhoods and classified as economically disadvantaged are less likely to have the opportunity to spend time in the outdoors. A series of initiatives throughout the state of Colorado aim to change this by expanding access and help get minority and lower-income children into more nature.

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  • These kids are hoping to save Galapagos tortoises — and their own home — from climate change

    Tortoises as well as other species native to Ecuador’s Galápagos Islands are facing increasingly critical threats due to climate change. Thanks to a program that is embedded in the Galapagos school system, however, high school students are playing a major role in collecting important data on the species while also becoming experts in climate change mitigation.

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  • These Girls Are Proof: Investing in Young Feminists Pays Off

    Young women face a unique set of challenges in school and as they transition into adulthood - from underrepresentation in school clubs and STEM subjects, to skewed perceptions on their clothing choices, to fewer business mentorship opportunities. Nonprofit Vital Voices is changing that with their HERLead program, which recruits girls from the US, Canada, and Puerto Rico and provides them with the resources to implement positive community initiatives, learn leadership skills, and pursue their dream careers.

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  • In push to end child marriage in Guatemala, young women are on the front line

    In some rural parts of Guatemala, "more than half the girls...marry before the age of 18." While a coalition of organizations was able to lobby lawmakers, and raise the legal marriage age to 18, real changes happened at the community level when mentors engaged with girls.

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