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  • Shootings Remain High in Philly, But City-Funded Violence Interruption Shows Promise

    Philadelphia’s city-funded Group Violence Intervention program identifies people who commit crimes together and offers them help to get a job, GED, or whatever assistance they need. The program brings together a variety of community members to conduct outreach, offer social services, and warn them of the consequences of continuing to participate in crimes.

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  • Estijoje didesnių vaikų globos namų beveik nebeliko, bet dalis ekspertų pabrėžia: namus vaikams kuria ne pastatas, o žmonės

    Estijai pavyko pertvarkyti dideles vaikų globos įstaigas į mažesnius, labiau vaikų gerovę, saugumą ir individualų dėmesį užtikrinančius vadinamuosius šeimos namus, kuriuose vienu metu gali gyventi ne daugiau kaip 6 vaikai. Tai buvo nuosekli Estijos socialinių reikalų ministerijos iniciatyva, kurios metu vadovautasi SOS vaikų kaimų modelio metodologija, ieškota namų vaikų apgyvendinimui įprastose kaimynystėse butuose arba individualiuose namuose, taip pat daug dėmesio skirta tinkamų profesionalių socialinių darbuotojų paieškai ir parengimui.

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  • Making transitional housing Halal in Texas

    Transitional housing centers like Huma-Faith and Halal House provide accommodations for formerly incarcerated people, specifically Muslim men. These houses are safe spaces that provide necessary resources like a shower and a warm bed, as well as work opportunities, group talk sessions, and regular drug and alcohol screening to help people put their best selves forward. These houses are also Muslim-centric, meaning people can rebuild their lives while freely practicing their religion.

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  • Who's going to check them? Racial equity audits can help corporate America keep its promises to address systemic racism

    Racial equity audits are conducted to identify where racial inequities exist within an organization and then provides strategies the organization can implement to work toward promoting racial equity. Several major companies, like Airbnb, have participated in these audits since they emerged in 2011, aiming to create a workplace with less racial bias and discrimination.

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  • Boarding School Alumni Push for a New Kind of Abuse Investigation

    In an effort to uncover decades of abuse allegations at the Christian Academy of Japan, investigators began working with academy alumni who helped push the investigation forward. Over the course of several years, alumni met regularly, clocking thousands of hours of work on the case, meeting with investigators and survivors. When the final report was released in 2021, 72 cases of alleged abuse — including sexual, physical, emotional and child-on-child abuse — were uncovered over a 44 year period.

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  • In these NH communities, you pay for how much trash you send to the landfill

    Communities across New Hampshire are implementing “pay as you throw” trash-collection systems to reduce the garbage sent to landfills and increase the use of alternative options like recycling. The programs use several different methods like special bags, stickers, or punch cards, but all require some form of payment per collected trash bag.

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  • How do you grow crops with no water? A rancher on the Gila River is trying an old approach

    An Arizona farmer became the first organic regenerative certified farm in the southwest using practices that conserve water and improve soil health along the drought-stuck Gila River. His practices include growing arid-adapted crops, integrating livestock grazing, and planting cover crops.

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  • Birth centers have never been more popular, but struggle to remain viable. How some midwives are changing the system.

    Organizations like Elephant Circle and community-led efforts are working to ensure birth centers have the money and resources to keep their doors open. These organizations help birth centers transition into fully nonprofit organizations that can accept donations from investors and fundraising to continue providing services to those in need of care.

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  • Tenants Empowering Tenants

    Tenant advocacy group Long Beach Residents Empowered (LIBRE) works with renters and helps them advocate for themselves against tenant harassment, unsafe living conditions and unjust evictions. LIBRE is divided into various campaigns, each with a different focus, like neighborhood organizing or training others about how to fight for tenant protection and advocate for policy change.

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  • How will we feed Earth's rising population? Ask the Dutch.

    In the Netherlands’ Seed Valley some of the largest seed companies in the world are increasing agricultural output to feed the growing world population using less land. They use plant breeding, which involves combining the DNA of different crop varieties, and seed enhancement, which involve germinating the seeds early to shorten the dormant period in which they are most vulnerable. Seed enhancement can also include coating seeds with solutions that combat dangers like disease and wind gusts.

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