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  • Impact of Chicago's violence on girls in toughest neighborhoods often overlooked

    December 10, 2016 |

    Chicago Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Girls in Chicago's toughest neighborhoods face extensive danger on a daily basis. Not enough is being done to help girls so that they do not engage in violence or self-harm. Programs such as the Urban Warrior Program, Demoiselle 2 Femme, and the juvenile justice system are implementing programs tailored to understand the issues for girls in this community and to then provide mentoring and education.

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  • This drug can break opioid addiction. Why aren't we using it?

    December 07, 2016 |

    Mother Jones |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Opioid addiction has increased throughout the United States. A clinic in San Francisco has been offering an opioid replacement drug called buphrenorphine to help wean addicts away from opioids. The clinic’s success at healing addicts has served as a model for clinics in other cities around the country.

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  • Program helps men learn to be the dads they want to be

    December 06, 2016 |

    Detroit Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Watsonville, California

    Some social services push dads away and many primarily address mothers. PAPAS in California, is a program that helps strengthen families and reduce conflict through support groups and educational classes for fathers.

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  • JPS Students Avoid Conflict with Peer Mediation

    November 30, 2016 |

    Jackson Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Jackson, Mississippi

    Whitten Preparatory, a mostly black middle school, is one of four schools in Jackson that are trying to combat disciplinary issues and keep violence low by using peer mediation - training students to be mediators so they can help their classmates come to a peaceful resolution to their issues.

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  • As Seattle eyes supervised drug-injection sites, is Vancouver a good model?

    November 30, 2016 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia

    King County may become home to the first publicly supervised site in the U.S. where addicts could use illegal drugs such as heroin. The proposal is modeled on Insite, a center in Vancouver, B.C., that has prevented nearly 5,000 overdoses in 13 years and the spread of infectious diseases through supervised injection and a needle exchange program.

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  • Children are not problems; they need solutions

    November 20, 2016 |

    Detroit Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Children in Detroit and Wayne County, Michigan suffer from poor parenting, poor schools, excessive violence, emotional stress and a lack of opportunity. Various agencies are helping these kids on various levels such as educating mothers and fathers to support their children emotionally and in their education.

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  • Victims of violence finding new hope in hospitals

    November 19, 2016 |

    Detroit Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Across the country, hospitals are embracing intensive intervention programs to help victims of violence — including those who have criminal histories — after they have been brought in for treatment of injuries. Such programs can help prevent retaliation, reduce the chance a patient will be violently injured again, and put people on track for success.

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  • Heroin scourge: ‘Not a thing being done about it'

    November 17, 2016 |

    Palm Beach Post |

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    Response Location: United States, West Palm Beach, Florida

    The 'Heroin Epidemic' has taken many lives due to overdosing and HIV. Establishing needle exchange locations, demanding that public officials carry Narcan (a drug that reverses overdoses), treating addicts whether or not they have insurance, and collecting data are all actions that together can significantly lessen the effects of Heroin on communities.

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  • What Mindfulness Does for Urban Kids

    November 14, 2016 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, New York

    In Baltimore, the effects of poverty hamper student's educational experience. This article looks at one school's attempt to address these education and behavioral barriers through meditation.

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  • New school rules? Swotting up on ‘positive education'

    November 10, 2016 |

    Positive.News |

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    Response Location: Bhutan

    In an aim to alleviate depression in youth, the concept of "positive education" emerges. While teaching empathy and multilateral collaboration may not be a priority in most teachers' lesson plans, especially ones who rely on standardized test scores, they are necessary skills that students need. This "positive education" ideology should be a priority in curricula as it is valued heavily by future employers.

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