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  • For some, prenatal care is a community affair

    June 18, 2014 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Latin American women in San Francisco have suffered from post-partum depression, social isolation, and chronic stress at the time of their pregnancies. Run by midwives, the Centering Pregnancy program at the San Francisco General Hospital provides patient-centered care, an environment to speak in Spanish, and a nurturing community for women’s group appointments. The results boast fewer c-sections and pre-term births, and an improvement in emotional support and overall prenatal health.

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  • The Power to Cure, Multiplied

    June 11, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New Mexico

    Project ECHO - driven by a single doctor with a cause - pulled together a team of specialists to develop a model that combines technology with collaborative care and careful patient tracking to help cure for diseases spread to patients around the world through community healthcare agents, as opposed to only specialty centers. This kind of "disruptive innovation" is effectively working to demonopolize health care knowledge and access, and lends to a health system capable of meeting today’s soaring demands for care.

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  • One Hospital Tells Bronx's Sick: You Call Us, We'll Call You

    June 03, 2014 |

    WNYC |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Hospitals in New York improve healthcare quality and reduce medical costs by staying in frequent contact with patients requiring frequent or long-term care. Montefiore's Accountable Care Organization pulls in care providers from across the medical and social spectrum to improve patient health while curbing expenses.

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  • Tucson's water ethic: Blueprint for Minnesota?

    May 27, 2014 |

    Minnesota Public Radio |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    Forty years ago, Tuscon faced a water crisis. Now, even after decades of population and economic growth, water consumption has been declining and, under much of the city, groundwater levels have been rising, due in equal parts to regulatory, financial, and cultural shifts.

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  • A New Model of School Reform

    May 21, 2014 |

    Greater Good Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    Social-emotional learning (SEL) is transforming educational systems in Oakland by forming mentor relationships between adults and students. Unlike other models, though, the adults are the ones held accountable.

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  • Fewer dropouts, more degrees: How Walla Walla Community College does it

    May 17, 2014 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Walla Walla, Washington

    Individualized advice and counseling, boosted by software tools, is helping hundreds more students earn degrees and certificates each year at Walla Walla Community College in Washington.

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  • Curbing Online Abuse Isn't Impossible. Here's Where We Start

    May 15, 2014 |

    Wired |

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    Response Location: United States, Santa Monica, California

    Harassment on the internet is more accepted but just as harmful as it is in person. RiotGames, a game publisher, decreased abuse by enabling its gaming members to decide and enforce community norms.

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  • Peer Pressure Can Be a Lifesaver

    May 14, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    Positive peer pressure - most specifically encouraging community influencers to lead by constructive example - has served as the key to adoption of various technologies and practices to improve quality of life for people worldwide. Whether it's using a new water purification device in Africa or encouraging mothers to breastfeed in South America, it has been behavioral psychology - the human need to meet social norms - more than other incentives that has instigated true and positive change.

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  • MPS looks to Oakland model to work differently with African-American boys

    May 05, 2014 |

    MinnPost |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    African American boys were being treated less-than-equally by the Oakland Unified School District – a change of culture was implemented and the playing field leveled. Now, Minnesota is looking to adopt the same system that was started in Oakland by creating schools that are exclusively for African American males in hopes to help them reach higher standards of achievement.

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  • Rethinking the zero-tolerance policy for juvenile offenders

    April 26, 2014 |

    Fayetteville Observer |

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    Response Location: United States, Jonesboro, Georgia

    The deeper kids get into the court system, the more likely they are to get into bigger trouble - instead of being scared straight, they end up on what researchers call the school-to-prison pipeline. Courts in Clayton County, GA, decrease the number of juveniles that are prosecuted by starting help groups to change behavior and strengthen families, and the initiative has since spread across the country.

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