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  • Connecting With Incarcerated Parents Is Easier With Photo Patch, an App Developed By a Teen

    May 13, 2020 |

    Teen Vogue |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    The Photo Patch Foundation helps connect children with parents who are experiencing incarceration. Using its website or mobile app, children can write letters and upload photos, which will then be printed and mailed by the organization at no cost. The Foundation, funded by donations and grants, was created by a father-daughter duo who had experienced the issue firsthand.

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  • 'How Can I Help You?' Schools Try To Reach Students Struggling With Mental Health During Coronavirus

    May 13, 2020 |

    LAist |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    The Los Angeles Unified school district has shifted how it’s helping to support students’ mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. By opening up a mental health hotline, they are able to connect students and their families with members of the Crisis Counseling and Intervention Services Unit to help provide emotional guidance and support. Since opening, they’ve already served over 3,500 individuals and are working to develop plans for long-term support.

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  • Is Ghana the Model the Developing World Needs Against the Virus?

    May 12, 2020 |

    OZY |

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    Response Location: Ghana

    Faced with limited resources and the pressure to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Ghana implemented a variety of measures during the early stages of the pandemic. Those measures, which include pool testing and drone deliveries to rural areas, may prove to be successful after the country reported "a fatality rate of 0.7 percent per 1 million population." Can other African countries and beyond learn from Ghana's example?

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  • Pascua Yaqui, Tohono O'odham respond to community needs during coronavirus pandemic

    May 11, 2020 |

    Arizona Daily Star |

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    Response Location: United States, Arizona

    Pascua Yaqui and Tohono O’odham tribal leaders took quick action to support members during the Covid-19 pandemic. They instituted a curfew, required face masks, and ensured that tribal members had sufficient food and supplies. The Pascua Yaqui’s information technology team created an app for residents to easily provide household information and request food, household goods and cleaning supplies. Federal rescue money allocated to the tribes has not arrived, so the tribes created their own systems of caring for their tribal members by securing essential goods and distributing them to those in need.

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  • Amidst coronavirus fears, Nigeria's pregnant women turn to remote consultation and online groups

    May 10, 2020 |

    Minority Africa |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    Pregnant women in Nigeria are turning to virtual support groups to help manage anxiety and fear they feel about delivering a baby during the coronavirus pandemic. Although the telehealth transition for doctor visits has provided more limitations than success, the use of WhatsApp and Telegram for support groups has been received well as a means of creating connections.

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  • Appalachia's Front Porch Network Is a Lifeline

    May 08, 2020 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Ohio

    Counties in Appalachia are meeting increased food assistance needs due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In some school districts, bus drivers continue their routes delivering free meals - and a familiar face - to any family who requests it. Kanawha County Schools provided more than 12,500 meals in the first week. Some school buses are also equipped with free wi-fi so that children without access to the internet can complete homework assignments. Traditional food banks in the area have also worked to meet increased demand and have had to adapt their practices for contactless distribution.

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  • Government-Run Homeless Camps Could Come To LA

    May 07, 2020 |

    LAist |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    In Los Angeles, a government-sanctioned camp has been developed for individuals experiencing housing insecurity. The camp, with around-the-clock security, offers residents water, meals, health care, and electrical outlets. While more have popped up as a response to slowing the spread of COVID-19 among those living on the streets, there have been arguments made for keeping them as a step toward more secure housing for individuals.

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  • Georgia Counties Quickly Deploy Ballot Drop Boxes, But How Long Will They Be Used?

    May 06, 2020 |

    WABE |

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    Response Location: United States, Georgia

    In an emergency COVID-19 measure, the Georgia allowed counties to deploy secure drop boxes for absentee ballots throughout the state. The drop boxes, which are emptied daily and under constant video surveillance, allow for contactless drop offs, without the use of postage.

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  • Coronavirus test sites are opening in East Oakland's most impacted neighborhoods

    May 06, 2020 |

    Berkeleyside |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    Rather than send local residents to city-run testing sites in the East Bay of California, clinics in East Oakland are now running their own testing sites to better serve their community. Although one of the sites has already tested nearly 100 people and residents who are underinsured or uninsured can be tested for free, some believe the effort should have started much sooner.

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  • Chinatown Housing Group Feeds Vulnerable SRO Tenants – by Reviving Legacy Restaurants

    May 06, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    The Chinatown Community Development Center (CCDC), a San Francisco nonprofit, is helping those living in single-room occupancy (SRO) or public housing access food safely during the COVID-19 pandemic. The CCDC has partnered with Self-Help for the Elderly and local restaurants to help deliver cooked meals and create pick-up stations for residents. So far, they’re helping deliver over 2,000 meals each day.

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