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What is a food pharmacy? The emerging concept underscores the importance of food as medicine

Joy Saha

December 09, 2024 |

Salon |

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Response Location: United States

Wholesome Wave works to end food and nutrition insecurity with its Produce Prescription Program food pharmacy, which offers people with diet-related illnesses prescriptions for healthy foods, like fruits and vegetables. Food pharmacies are collaborations between healthcare organizations and medical professionals that use food as medicine, highlighting the importance of a well-rounded diet to prevent disease.

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Fighting food insecurity with cooking classes

Cadie Carlson

December 06, 2024 |

Grady Newsource |

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Response Location: United States, Winder, Georgia

Wimberly’s Roots, a community garden and kitchen located in one of Georgia's food deserts, has increased access to healthy food through their monthly cooking lessons and partnership with the Boys and Girls Club.

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Finding family services is hard. How South LA built a one-stop shop for people with young kids

Stefanie Ritoper

December 04, 2024 |

LAist |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

Partners for Children South L.A. brings together more than 40 organizations that work with families in need to make it easier for parents to get the services they’re seeking without having to go to multiple different providers before getting help. Over the past 10 years, the collaboration has served more than 10,000 families.

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Texas Trees launches a five-year plan to make South Dallas more green

María Ramos Pacheco

December 04, 2024 |

Dallas Morning News |

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Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

The Texas Trees Foundation is bringing thousands of trees to Dallas communities experiencing the worst of the urban heat island effect to help keep them cool. The organization supplies the trees and teaches residents how to care for them.

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Are high efficiency stoves the solution to Keene's wood smoke pollution?

Elijah de Castro

November 29, 2024 |

Sentinel Source (The Keene Sentinel) |

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Response Location: United States, Keene, New Hampshire

In New England, government incentives and education are supporting and encouraging residents to swap their wood-burning stoves for high-efficiency models that burn less wood and emit less smoke. The aim is to reduce air pollution and its public health and climate impacts.

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The Value of Mental Health

Adela Svadba

November 28, 2024 |

Transitions Online |

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Response Location: Czech Republic

The Zruc Mental Health Team for Children and Young People provides free mental health care to youth in schools in the Czech Republic's Kutna Hora district. These teams of traveling psychologists are making mental health care more accessible by meeting students where they are and are helping to reverse the standard method of labeling children with mental health issues as “problematic,” instead ensuring they get the care they need.

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Anambra Free Maternal Care Policy Sparks Hope Despite Challenges

Annabel Nwachukwu

November 28, 2024 |

Radio Nigeria |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Anambra

The Anambra state government’s Antenatal and Delivery Program mandates government-owned hospitals and Primary Healthcare Centers (PHCs) to offer free antenatal care and delivery services, to close the gap in care and curb maternal mortality rates. The program has helped strengthen the maternal care capacity at 329 PHCs throughout the state and has served over 60,000 women.

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CT child care 'incubator' is building capacity, stability in sector

Erica E. Phillips

November 26, 2024 |

The Connecticut Mirror |

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Response Location: United States, New Britain, Connecticut

New Britain’s Childcare Incubator Project helps home-based child care entrepreneurs launch their businesses through in-depth training, mentorship, and support, including a transitional phase where they start offering care within a shared facility and with the guidance of an on-site coordinator. Four businesses are currently in their transitional phase, and other cities around the state are now considering replicating the program.

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The Denver Nonprofit Tackling Food Waste and Hunger at Once

Taylor Haelterman

November 26, 2024 |

Triple Pundit |

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Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

We Don’t Waste serves more than 100 hunger relief organizations across the city and has saved and redistributed 220 million servings of food to date. The team of staff and volunteers who recover and distribute food to the community has not only helped prevent food waste, but also greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental consequences, all while feeding locals in need.

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Driving unlicensed: The impact on South Dallas residents and the academy working to help

Brenda Hernandez

November 26, 2024 |

Dallas Free Press |

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Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

The South Dallas Driving Academy offers a free driver’s education course for residents between the ages of 18 and 40 who are applying for their license for the first time. The month long program started three years ago and has since graduated 160 students, even offering a CDL license program for those who are interested.

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