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  • How Other Countries Handled Their Jobs Crises

    June 17, 2020 |

    NPR |

    Podcast |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    Varying tactics have been adopted in response to the worldwide pandemic, prompting financial implications; some more successful than others. Germany and Japan, in particular, have been able to maintain low unemployment rates in comparison to the US. Germany's approach is a work-sharing program, or "Kurzarbeit," which allows employers to reduce hours for all employees instead of letting some employees go, preventing workers from experiencing the uncertainties of unemployment. South Korea's successful approach to containing the virus prevented the loss of jobs and prompted a faster return to normal.

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  • ACERT: Getting help for traumatized kids

    June 17, 2020 |

    The Laconia Daily Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Laconia, New Hampshire

    To connect children with the counseling and other services they need to heal from traumatic experiences, the Adverse Childhood Experience Response team trains police and others to spot problems early and make prompt referrals. Laconia's ACERT program has started small, with 14 interventions in its first nine months, but it's patterned on Manchester's program, which in less than four years has helped 1,200 children and families. By refining its approaches to families, the program convinces most to permit interventions. Early help for trauma can spare children long-term, serious health and emotional problems.

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  • How Decades Of Bans On Police Chokeholds Have Fallen Short

    June 16, 2020 |

    NPR |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    One of the key police reforms sought after the death in Minneapolis of George Floyd, bans on chokeholds and other neck restraints, has failed to curb abuses in some of the nation’s largest police departments because of lax enforcement and easily found loopholes in such policies. Despite existing bans, some as old as 30-40 years, multiple people in those cities have died when neck restraints were used during their arrests with few repercussions. Lack of effective training and disagreements over such tactics’ efficacy are among other reasons experts say the practice persists.

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  • When coronavirus closed schools, some Detroit students went missing from class. These educators had to find them.

    June 16, 2020 |

    NBC News |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    After the pandemic forced schools to close, educators in Detroit had to take on the role of "detectives" in order to track down missing students and help them stay on-track. After realizing the extent of the impact the coronavirus had on students and their families, educators resorted to persistent follow-ups, food deliveries, tracking families based on need, and providing grief counseling to help them cope with family losses and their changing environments.

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  • How Violence Interrupters Brokered An End To Anti-Black Attacks In A Latino Neighborhood Audio icon

    June 16, 2020 |

    Block Club Chicago |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    When protests against police violence turned into looting and anti-Black violence in some Latinx neighborhoods, violence interrupters from groups such as UCAN, EnLace, and Chicago CRED brokered a peace agreement that almost immediately ended that violence. The outreach workers’ years-long relationships and training in dispute mediation gave them credibility to address historic racial tensions among gangs in Lawndale and Little Village. The violence could have escalated, but three days of negotiation – and a sense of common cause against racism in policing – united the neighborhoods.

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  • This Seattle protest zone is police-free. So volunteers are stepping up to provide security.

    June 16, 2020 |

    The Washington Post |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    In Seattle's police-free street encampment that sprang up during protests over policing abuses, a mostly unarmed group of volunteer "sentinels" has defused a number of potential problems while largely avoiding the use of force. Trained in de-escalation and mediation tactics, the sentinels have used listening techniques to understand people's anger or mental state. Among the incidents they have addressed: fights, attempted vandalism of storefronts, visits from armed people who wanted to confront a supposed leftist threat, and the attempted arson of a police precinct building.

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  • Face Masks, Temperature Checks: The New Reality For Summer School Students Audio icon

    June 16, 2020 |

    Honolulu Civil Beat |

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    Response Location: United States, Hawaii

    Teachers and administrators at schools across Hawaii are adjusting to what it means to teach summer school during the time of coronavirus—and how it'll shape their protocols once fall rolls around. These adjustments include taking students' temperatures, drastically reducing the number of its in-person classroom capacity, and finding ways to equip those students who need equipment to join class online.

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  • How Sweden's new consent law led to a 75% rise in rape convictions

    June 16, 2020 |

    The Local |

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    Response Location: Sweden

    In the nearly two years since Sweden broadened the definition of rape offenses to include cases in which a victim fails to signal consent, both the reports of alleged rapes and convictions have risen. During that time, 76 convictions were in cases that previously would not have been classified as rape because they lacked evidence of force, threat, or sex with an incapacitated victim. Rapes still go largely unreported to police and there's still no evidence that the new law will achieve the ultimate goal of reducing the incidence of rape.

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  • 3 lessons from how schools responded to the 1918 pandemic worth heeding today

    June 16, 2020 |

    The Conversation |

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    Response Location: United States

    The pandemic of 2020 bears a heavy resemblance to the pandemic of 1918, and the U.S. can learn from the successes of the past. Investing heavily in school nurses, fostering cross-sector and public/private partnerships, and creating “large, clean, airy school buildings” to continue serving families and children—decisions made over a hundred years ago that are still just as relevant today.

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  • La ventilación mécanica: una esperanza de alto riesgo para pacientes COVID

    June 16, 2020 |

    Animal Político |

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    Response Location: Mexico

    Este artículo explica en qué medida los sistemas de ventilación pulmonar mecánicos para medicina son soluciones ante una pandemia por enfermedad respiratoria como el COVID-19, pero en un país con altos porcentajes de población diabética, hipertensa y con obesidad, esta respuesta médica a la enfermedad también puede representar un riesgo.

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