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  • Can community design take the loneliness and angst out of aging?

    July 19, 2018 |

    Missoula Independent |

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    Response Location: United States, Missoula, Montana

    By 2025, 25% of Montana’s population is expected to be over the age of 65. Bill Thomas and Kavan Peterson are two leaders in approaching how to improve the experience of aging, in Montana and around the globe. They have tried many approaches, but what unites them all is using creative design tactics to make a more positive living experience for the elderly. By focusing on integrating architecture, culture, and technology, nursing homes can be transformed, loneliness can decrease, and aging people’s quality of health and life can improve.

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  • Why Are Free College Programs So Successful?

    July 19, 2018 |

    Pacific Standard |

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    Response Location: United States, Tennessee

    Since 2014, nine states have introduced free college programs for all high school graduates attending in-state community college and technical schools. Unlike other similar initiatives, this model targets all populations and is not merit-based or intended solely for low-income students. This article weighs the pros, cons, and sustainability of the increasingly popular solution.

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  • Beyond the Stigma: Optimism on NH's opioid front line

    July 18, 2018 |

    New Hampshire Union Leader |

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    Response Location: United States, Manchester, New Hampshire

    In New Hampshire, many actors are participating to coordinate solutions to the opioid crisis. Among the most effective solutions are training physicians to help patients manage pain without opiates, helping patients wean off opiates, and maintaining rapid response teams to respond to potential overdoses.

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  • For Some Migrant Worker Children in College, a Free Sandwich Can Make All the Difference

    July 17, 2018 |

    Pacific Standard |

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    Response Location: United States, Fresno, California

    At California University State-Fresno, 64 percent of students enrolled in a migrant support program graduate within six years, compared with 56 percent of first-generation students at the university. The College Assistance Migrant Program offers students lessons on topics ranging from how to cook meals to how to interact with professors. Since 1972, CAMP has helped these children of migrant workers go to college and its strategies have improved the odds for first-generation students to graduate.

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  • It Takes Consultation to Help a Village

    July 17, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Liberia, Harlandville

    To succeed at international development, consult the locals. It seems obvious, but too many failed development projects show community buy-in is not the biggest priority. Two groups are leading the way to change this. Village X and Spark MicroGrants rely on locals’ opinions to direct projects that are actually needed and desired, creating better long-term outcomes for the communities in which they operate.

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  • Design as Democracy: Barcelona's ‘Carritos' Encourage a More Inclusive Urbanism

    July 16, 2018 |

    TheCityFix |

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    Response Location: Spain, Barcelona

    Urban planners in Barcelona have a new way to engage locals who want a voice in urban design. Carritos, or mobile carts, are traveling to public spaces to draw in people who can share their opinions on development projects. This especially helps get feedback from those who do not have time to attend traditional city planning meetings. The goal is to make city planning a more inclusive space.

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  • Traditional Birth Attendants: Friend or foe?

    July 16, 2018 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

    Throughout rural parts of Nigeria, health care services are often out of reach, putting pregnant women at risk of undergoing an unsafe childbirth experience. Although not without limitations, training women in these areas to act as Traditional Birth Attendants helps fill a small portion of the health equity gap by offering safe-birthing education as well as medical toolkits.

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  • Fanned with love

    July 15, 2018 |

    Philippine Daily Inquirer |

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    Response Location: Philippines, Parañaque City

    What started as a form of therapy turned into a business venture for this group of moms. The aim was to “empower mothers through art” and now they are selling their pieces for a profit.

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  • Halting Violence In The Heartland

    July 14, 2018 |

    U.S. News & World Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Omaha, Nebraska

    A nonprofit in Omaha focuses on hospitals for its gang intervention work, making contact with gang members or potential gang members who have been injured through violence and may be ready to make a change in their lives. YouTurn connects them to services like housing, education and job programs and acts as a bridge between families, police and doctors. It also works to prevent violence that might occur in hospitals through revenge or retaliation by rival gangs.

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  • Neighbors on call to help care for one another

    July 14, 2018 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: Haiti, Mirebalais

    Although Haiti and Montana appear to be vastly different places, they have a few important things in common; they are geographically rural, they both face high rates of mental illness and a shortage of mental health care workers, and they are both combatting this problem by utilizing Community Health Workers. These workers regularly visit people who struggle with mental health issues to check up on them and ensure that they stay on track with their treatment, and provide consistent support.

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