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  • Movement And Breathing Breaks Help Students Stay Focused On Learning

    March 03, 2019 |

    KQED |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Schools are increasingly using mindfulness practices to help students transition from high-energy periods like gym and recess to quieter and more focused classroom settings.

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  • Hub and spoke approach helps battle opioid addiction in New Hampshire

    March 03, 2019 |

    The Nashua Telegraph |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Nashua, New Hampshire

    The hub-and-spoke model allows local partners to provide individuals with access to resources earmarked specifically for opioid addiction treatment. The system of care, which uses regional clinics and non-profits as access points to treatment, has already proven effective in Vermont. Currently, a similar program is assisting individuals suffering from opioid addiction receive the help they need through entry points at nonprofits like The Doorway office at Harbor Homes.

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  • Winter Park patrollers stay on the cutting edge of avalanche rescue with C-RAD

    March 03, 2019 |

    Sky-Hi News |

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    Response Location: United States, Winter Park, Colorado

    In Colorado, Winter Park ski patrollers are making an effort to utilize the most effective avalanche safety training in order to create a more efficient and successful search and rescue team. Colorado Rapid Avalanche Deployment, or C-RAD, trains the patrollers to become part of a rapid avalanche deployment team, a unit that combines efforts of paramedics, rescue dogs and handlers, and avalanche technicians.

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  • Farmers in Uttarakhand Look to the Past to Benefit the Future

    March 02, 2019 |

    Earth Journalism Network |

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    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: India, Uttarakhand

    Mountains are particularly vulnerable to climate change, and a mountain city in India is finding sustainable solutions in traditional agriculture. Women overwhelmingly make up the farming workforce in Uttarakhand and are using a number of ways to combat the effects of the temperature increase. These solutions include bringing back an ancient grain, finger millet, to appeal to new tastes and dishes, storing seed banks of traditional varieties, and opening a cafe serving local food using the ancient grains to attract outside visitors.

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  • Beyond the Stigma: Orchestra offers a safe place to shine

    March 02, 2019 |

    New Hampshire Union Leader |

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    Response Location: United States, Concord, New Hampshire

    An orchestra created by and for musicians with mental health struggles is working to create a safe space for individuals to create music and form support networks. The orchestra accepts everyone and is meant to be an accepting place no matter someone's skillset, and multiple branches mean that the inclusive environment the orchestra attempts to cultivate is available to musicians and others across the country.

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  • New York Has a Public Housing Problem. Does London Have an Answer?

    March 01, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, London, England

    It takes political will to create mixed-income housing and manage the social impacts of gentrification. In contrast to New York, the London borough of Hackney has taken steps to fix its housing crisis by putting the interests of residents ahead of the interests of developers. Several housing developments slated for development in the East London neighborhood now blend subsidized and market-rate units.

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  • NH's Hub and Spoke system: Traction or just spinning wheels?

    March 01, 2019 |

    Manchester Ink Link |

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    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    Vermont's hub and spoke model of care has gained notoriety as being a system that has successfully played a positive role in creating better access to health care, especially as it relates to the opioid crisis. Now, officials in New Hampshire are looking to scale and adapt the program to work in their state.

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  • ‘We believe that they can come home and be a positive force for change:' How one program helps people transition out of incarceration

    March 01, 2019 |

    Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service |

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    Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    In Wisconsin, the Alma Brothers Smart Reentry program works to reduce the rate of recidivism by building relationships with those being released from prison and reentering society. By providing each man in the program with a guide during the last year of his sentence and first year out of prison, the program is able to offer support, resources and opportunities that the former inmates may not otherwise have.

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  • Preparing Main Street for the So-Called ‘Retail Apocalypse'

    March 01, 2019 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Corning, New York

    A planning expert dives into responses from cities around the country to the infrastructural red tape faced by many brick-and-mortar retail businesses in the wake of an ecommerce boom. In Corning, NY, city officials created mid-block crosswalks to make navigating retail spaces downtown safer; in Memphis, local government passed a law that allows for light manufacturing in downtown areas to make owning "mom-and-pop" shops more affordable & convenient.

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  • The Key to Nebraska's Water Conservation Success

    March 01, 2019 |

    Governing |

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    Response Location: United States, Lincoln, Nebraska

    As the Ogallala Aquifer’s water level has declined in many states across the High Plains region of the U.S., Nebraska has almost fully maintained its water level by relying on National Resource Districts (NRDs). NRDs “develop integrated management plans for surface water and groundwater,” and its sustainable practices offer a model of how sustainable water management can thrive with local governance.

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