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  • How to help Mexican migrants? Publish news they can use.

    May 28, 2019 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Mexico

    For the past three years, a service news media company has written stories specifically responding to questions sent in by Mexican migrants living in the U.S. “We realized Mexican migrants in the U.S. didn’t need general information like any old news site; they needed very, very specific information,” the founder of Conexión Migrante said.

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  • ‘People aren't disabled, their city is': inside Europe's most accessible city

    May 28, 2019 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Breda, North Brabant

    The Dutch city of Breda is making great strides in making their city accessible for all with more than 800 shops and bars physically accessible and more than 26 city resident and tourist-focused websites now accessible to those with sensory and learning impairments. Breda attributes these successes and many more to a commitment to improving accessibility and creating partnerships that work together to achieve this mission of inclusivity and social confidence.

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  • Free Childcare at City Meetings

    May 22, 2019 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Ithaca, New York

    In Ithaca, New York, city meetings are now offering free childcare to parents who want to civically engage but are unable to do so because of childcare responsibilities. Recognizing that their meetings skewed older and whiter than their demographic reality, the city instituted the low cost, high reward policy.

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  • Not Just For Soldiers: Civilians With PTSD Struggle To Find Effective Therapy

    May 20, 2019 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Texas

    Many people associate post-traumatic stress disorder as a diagnosis exclusively reserved for military or emergency responders, and this limited definition can lead to misdiagnoses for everyday civilians. Training more therapists in cognitive processing therapy and prolonged exposure therapy, however, expands treatment options for this population.

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  • How cities are convincing voters to pay higher taxes for public preschool

    May 19, 2019 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Undeterred by a lack of funding from the state and federal government, U.S. cities are successfully getting citizen approval to raise property taxes for the purpose of funding early childcare education programs. In Seattle, the city subsidizes tuition, regulates class size and length of the school day, and pays teachers more. In turn, cities are highlighting concrete improvements in student performance, helping to further secure resident support.

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  • Microgrants help Fort Lewis College students with unexpected financial hardships

    May 17, 2019 |

    Durango Herald |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    It's not just soaring tuition expenses that prevent students from completing their college education - emergency expenses such as medical care and car repair can also be disruptive. A new program at Fort Lewis College in Colorado provides microgrants to students who find themselves in these situations.

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  • Business For Good: iBreastExam

    May 14, 2019 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Chester Springs, Pennsylvania

    Accessing preventative health care, such as routine mammograms, is often dictated by socioeconomic levels and geographical boundaries. To change this, an engineer sought out technology and partnerships that eventually lead to the creation of iBreastExam, an affordable and mobile way to conduct a breast exam that is being used in 12 countries and has screened 250,000 women.

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  • Designing the Butterfly-Friendly City

    May 13, 2019 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    As the monarch butterfly nears endangerment, cities across the US are integrating butterfly-friendly spaces into their urban environments. Such spaces reside in schools, firehouses, parks, and more, and they enable the butterfly to rest, feed, pollinate, and procreate at any stage in their lifecycle. St. Louis in particular already has over 400 monarch gardens and have ample evidence of public support for the projects.

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  • How to build a feminist city

    May 13, 2019 |

    Apolitical |

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    Response Location: India, Delhi

    Recent efforts to bring a gender perspective, especially a feminist one, to urban planning are making cities safer and more inclusive. One Indian app called SafetiPin crowdsources ratings of public spaces based on various safety criteria like lighting, visibility, and transportation. Elsewhere, city planners and researchers are defining what a feminist city would look like. In Sweden, buses are incorporating "night stops" between regular stops to decrease the amount of walking at night needed.

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  • For non-swimmers, a chance to jump in the water and learn

    May 10, 2019 |

    WHYY |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    To better serve all communities and increase safety for families, the Philadelphia Department of Parks and Recreation is offering free swim lessons at community pools. Building off of the success of University of Pennsylvania's We Can Swim summer program which offers lessons to "Philadelphia children who might not otherwise have the opportunity to learn," the idea has already been deemed a success given the enrollment numbers.

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