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  • The Need for Period Products in Private Universities

    September 10, 2024 |

    Pepperdine University Graphic |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Aunt Flow provides period product dispensers to colleges and universities so students can access free menstrual care. The company is currently partnered with over 800 universities.

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  • Louisville groups offer therapy in unexpected places to make it more accessible to youth of color

    September 09, 2024 |

    Louisville Public Media |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Louisville, Kentucky

    Several Louisville organizations are addressing mental health care accessibility for youth of color by offering therapy in community spaces like barbershops, libraries, and other familiar environments. This approach aims to reduce stigma and has also made mental health care more accessible by eliminating barriers such as cost and location. Many youths who had participated in the therapy programs reported feeling more open to discussing their mental health.

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  • North Center's Common Pantry Provides Free Nutritional Education Amid Increased Demand

    September 06, 2024 |

    Block Club Chicago |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Common Pantry provides assistance to those facing food insecurity, and recently opened a new facility to offer housing information and assistance with job searches, government benefits, health care and other services. The Pantry also started a nutrition program, teaching people about the science between food and health, as well as how to cook healthy meals at home.

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  • How One Company Gamified Health Insurance

    September 05, 2024 |

    Tradeoffs |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Maryland

    A game called “Benefit Builder,” developed by the head of human resources at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, helped employees collaboratively develop equitable company-wide health insurance plans. Gamifying the process helped boost employee buy-in and morale.

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  • Cherokees take new approach to helping addicts

    August 27, 2024 |

    ICT News |

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    Response Location: Cherokee Nation, United States, Tulsa, Oklahoma

    The Cherokee Nation harm reduction program provides supplies like clean needles and Narcan to those using drugs and even offers safe, clean environments for drug use with staff available to assist during overdoses. As opioid addiction has disproportionately impacted Indigenous communities, the program also provides opportunities for people in recovery to participate in cultural activities. So far, the program has encountered several thousand people and has saved 44 lives with Narcan distribution.

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  • Jos Nigeria: How residents fight cold

    August 24, 2024 |

    African Change Stories |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Jos, Plateau

    To help locals survive through the area’s cold climate, one local began selling boiling water to residents so they can use it for bathing, cooking and whatever else they may need it for, to save them time and reduce the health risks associated with using cold water.

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  • An air conditioning law, the first in its region, changed tenants' rights in this Maryland county

    August 22, 2024 |

    Smart Cities Dive |

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    Response Location: United States, Maryland

    To protect tenants from extreme heat, lawmakers in Montgomery County, Maryland, passed a policy requiring landlords to provide air conditioning capable of cooling units to at least 80 degrees Fahrenheit from June through September.

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  • Pregnant Women in Urban Nigeria are Skipping Hospital Antenatal

    August 19, 2024 |

    Women Radio 91.7 |

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    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Nigeria

    Preggify is a telehealth platform that provides 24-hour support for pregnant women, where they can connect with doctors, get prescriptions and receive guidance on how to navigate their pregnancy. The platform also organizes weekly educational classes, conducts regular vital and blood pressure measurements and also monitors expecting mothers’ mental health. The platform was founded in 2022 and has built a community of about 2,000 women.

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  • Schools are providing access to doctors and therapists before, during and after the school day

    August 16, 2024 |

    WSLS-TV |

    Video |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Roanoke, Virginia

    A partnership between Hazel Health and the local school district is bridging the gap between students and mental and physical healthcare by providing therapy and telehealth resources before, during and after the school day. Care is provided without any necessary out-of-pocket costs and from November 2023 to June 2024, Hazel Health provided 630 therapy sessions to students across 25 schools.

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  • Virginia's pregnant women must travel farther as the maternity care crisis grows. Doulas are stepping in to fill gaps.

    August 13, 2024 |

    Cardinal News |

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    Response Location: United States, Virginia

    Birth in Color's doulas are filling the maternity care gap as rural labor and delivery rooms close, disproportionately impacting people of color. Doulas provide physical, emotional and informational support before, during and after childbirth, and advocate on the mother’s behalf. Doula care leads to improved birth outcomes and lower rates of C-sections, and in April 2022 doula services were added under the state’s Medicaid program.

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