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Beyond Detention: Exploring Smarter, Cheaper Alternatives to Locking Kids Up

Arielle Dreher

August 17, 2016 |

Jackson Free Press |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Jackson, Mississippi

Alternative programming that involves "restorative justice" models - such as having youth within the criminal justice system create art as a means of self expression instead of detaining them in a prison-like facility - are much more effective at preventing antisocial and criminal behavior in youth than involvement in the juvenile-justice system.

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Drug could give addicts hope for recovery

JR Logan

August 11, 2016 |

The Taos News |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Questa, New Mexico

Addressing addiction takes long-term care and a multi-faceted approach. A model program at the Questa Health Center in the village of Questa, New Mexico, combines treatment with the drug, Suboxone, alongside a behavioral therapy program, and drug screenings. The ongoing participation in group therapy helps patients to gradually taper off of Suboxone, and remain clean.

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Want to Fix U.S. Schools? Look to Native American Communities

Paul Nyhan

August 10, 2016 |

Equal Voice News |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Native American students are 237% more likely to drop out than their white counterparts. Organizations like the Native American Community Academy (NACA), are changing those statistics by creating curricula that focus on tribal identity values. These alterations have proved successful as graduation rates and college attendance have risen among Native American students attending NACA.

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A Different Type of Addiction

Wheeler Cowperthwaite

August 10, 2016 |

Rio Grande Sun |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Española, New Mexico

Alcohol has claimed more lives in Rio Arriba County in the past five years than other drugs. SMART, a secular alternative to Alcoholics Anonymous, provides one path toward recovery, increasingly incorporating scientific findings into treatment as well as support for family members of addicts, helping them change the environment.

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A community curbs pain pill abuse, but heroin addiction grows

Paige Blankenbuehler

August 08, 2016 |

High Country News |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Alamosa, Colorado

The over-prescription of pain medicine has been a problem in southwest Colorado. Collective efforts of health care providers to standardize opioid prescriptions, clinics to expand recovery programs, and law enforcement to encourage addicts to enter rehab rather than prison, have reduced over-prescriptions of pain medications. However, they also could be unintentionally causing a rise in heroin use.

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The surprisingly simple economic case for giving refugees cash, not stuff

Elizabeth MacBride

August 07, 2016 |

Quartz |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Jordan, Amman

In the Middle East, refugee camps are expensive to run-- particularly because shipping food aid is expensive, and the refugees feel victimized in an environment where they have no agency or purchasing power. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees has moved refugees in Jordan out of camps and has given cash instead of in-kind aid, and new possibilities emerge with mobile money by the aid of new technology. The results have shown that refugees feel more empowered and the costs associated with their aid are reduced.

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How Did we Save the Ozone Layer?

Helena Merriman

August 02, 2016 |

BBC |

Radio |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Poland

CFCs, chemicals created in the early 20th century, were an industrial success but destroyed the atmosphere. How a group of environmentalists, scientists, and lawyers in the 70s/80s raised public awareness which ultimately led to the most successful treaty ever, banning CFCs.

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Inside Rio's favelas, the city's impoverished, neglected neighborhoods

Johnny Harris

August 01, 2016 |

Vox |

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5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro

Favelas, what some people might perceive as gang-filled slums surrounding the developed part of Rio de Janeiro, are in fact brimming with creative resilience that demonstrates the ingenuity of people in the face of a government that turns its back on them. Though gangs do exist, there are photographers attempting to show all views of the city. One man has transformed a trash hill into a garden. Others have built governing authorities to support their neighborhoods. All these people continue to innovate in the face of daily challenges.

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Chronically Absent: Is Quality Education in Juvenile Detention Possible in Mississippi?

Sierra Mannie

July 27, 2016 |

Jackson Free Press |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Pelahatchie, Mississippi

Many years of work to improve juvenile-detention centers in Mississippi may curb recidivism rates by increasing the quality of life in detention. Despite those efforts, however, centers might still be unable to give detained students what they need the most—a quality education.

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How Malawi Girls Combat Sexual Abuse – Self Defense

Hannah McNeish

July 26, 2016 |

News Deeply |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Malawi, Dedza

Sexual abuse and rape are frequent and accepted parts of the social fabric in Malawi. To combat that, Malawi girls and boys take self defense classes to learn how to avert assault in order to protect themselves and others.

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