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How a teacher program uses scholarships to bring educators to rural towns

April McCullum

October 02, 2019 |

Burlington Free Press |

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Response Location: United States, Willow Springs, Missouri

A scholarship program in Missouri encourages students to stay and teach in their hometowns or nearby areas. In return for funding for tuition, young teachers prepare to work in the rural schools that have faced challenges retaining a workforce in recent years.

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Immersion Program Seeks Next Generation Of Rural Doctors

Sebastián Martínez Valdivia

September 30, 2019 |

Side Effects Public Media |

Radio |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Sedalia, Missouri

Rural areas are often underserved when it comes to medical access, but a town in Missouri is working on changing this by immersing medical students in rural life. Offering students a glimpse of small town life while working alongside local healthcare providers, the immersion program serves as a recruitment tool and is showing promise.

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Access to medical care is difficult for the rural uninsured. This clinic comes to them.

Wyatt Massey

September 16, 2019 |

Chattanooga Times Free Press |

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Response Location: United States, Knoxville, Tennessee

The St. Mary’s Legacy Clinic is a mobile health clinic bringing care to uninsured, rural residents in Tennessee. The initiative has reached nearly 250 people since it started, providing care to six different towns once per month. With the costs of health care without insurance being enough to turn people away from seeking it, this clinic provides medical evaluations, medicine, and lab work – all with the hope of rebuilding trust between communities and the healthcare system.

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How a Vermont school is overcoming the declining enrollment trend that hurts rural towns

Sadie Housberg

August 27, 2019 |

USA Today |

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Response Location: United States, Tinmouth, Vermont

In stark contrast to schools in the rest of the state, Tinmouth's elementary school population has increased by 30 percent in the past four years, helping to bring in and retain dedicated teachers. Tinmouth, which focuses on outdoor and project-based education and thoughtfully marketing its programs, offers lessons for other rural towns navigating population loss.

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How a North Dakota town embraced online learning to try to save its school

April McCullum

August 22, 2019 |

USA Today |

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Response Location: United States, Wolford, North Dakota

In response to a shortage of teachers, North Dakota's public schools are experimenting with online learning alternatives. "Rural areas have a chance that they’ve never had before," the executive director of the North Dakota Center for Distance Education said.

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How a 276-person town in Kansas is turning an empty school into a business incubator

April McCullum

August 21, 2019 |

Burlington Free Press |

Multi-Media |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Hanston, Kansas

When the city of Hanston, Kansas had to shut down the local middle/high school, residents refused to let the school sit vacant; instead, the building now houses a town-owned business incubator called Elk Plaza. Uses of the transformed building include the town's only commercial kitchen and movie theatre, a flexible event space, and office space for local entrepreneurs.

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Overcoming an Epidemic: Opioids in Pennsylvania

Emily Reddy Anne Danahy Min Xian

August 20, 2019 |

WPSU |

Podcast |

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Response Location: United States, Pennsylvania

Across Pennsylvania, researchers, medical professionals, communities, and local governments are taking steps to address the opioid crisis. The epidemic that has swept across the country is being addressed at every level, including individual, family, and community. Responses include destigmatizing efforts like the Share Your Opioid Story project, school-based prevention education, drug court programming, medication assisted treatment, and training and awareness initiatives for medical professionals in urban and rural areas.

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Post-Soviet Co-ops: Mongolian Herders Borrow a Tool From the Recent Past

Sarah Trent Khaliun Bayartsogt

August 15, 2019 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar

Members of Post-Soviet Mongolian tribes return to a co-op way of life in order to survive - but this time, the co-ops are community run, rather than state-run. Because climate change has degraded the quality of soil and made it difficult for pasture-raised animals to survive, these tribes have banded together to manage pastureland more efficiently and sell their products, as a group, to national companies.

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In wealthy Silicon Valley, a $500 million plan to save threatened farmland

Johnny Magdaleno

August 08, 2019 |

Reuters |

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Response Location: United States, San Martin, California

In Santa Clara County, California, the Sustainable Agricultural Lands Conservation program is funding an effort to prevent development and bolster agriculture on local farmland. The County, home to Silicon Valley, purchases land at market prices to protect it from development, incentivize agriculture, and prevent sprawl. While still in the beginning stages, the county looking long-term to see how this program will be financially sustainable.

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Rural Michigan needs doctors. Paying their debts may be an answer

Robin Erb

July 22, 2019 |

Bridge Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, Grant, Michigan

A state-funded loan repayment program makes Michigan stand out in a competitive market for doctors and health care professionals. To help reduce the shortfall of healthcare professionals in underserved, rural communities, the Michigan Loan Reimbursement and Employment Solution (MiLES) currently offers student loan repayment in exchange for a multi-year commitment from doctors. The success of the program has generated efforts to expand loan repayment caps and the length of employment commitments for healthcare professionals.

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