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  • With an Affinity to Care

    August 12, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Centreville, Michigan

    In an effort to reduce incarceration, homelessness, and hospitalization, Affinity House provides people with mental illness a free place to form social connections and work their way towards employment one step at a time with the clubhouse staff.

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  • ‘House of Memories': Making Museums Dementia-Inclusive

    August 09, 2022 |

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    Response Location: England

    The House of Memories program teaches caregivers of people with dementia tactics based off of museum curation that help boost communication and connection.

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  • Glitter has proven it can clean our streets. Will the City finally back it up?

    August 08, 2022 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    The street cleaning startup Glitter facilitates paid cleanups on blocks that slip through the cracks of the City’s waste management services. The company has cleaners assigned to blocks in every section of the city, with new people jumping on board each week to help clean up the streets.

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  • Combating veteran suicides with peers, therapy, housing — and a little horse sense

    August 06, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Swords to Plowshares is a San Francisco nonprofit providing homeless veterans with a place to live and different types of therapy while working to get them jobs, military benefits, and permanent housing.

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  • What a Sandy Hook mental health center can teach Texas about helping kids after a tragedy

    August 04, 2022 |

    Dallas Morning News |

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    Response Location: United States, Uvalde, Texas

    The Uvalde Together Resilience Center run by The Ecumenical Center provides mental health services to students, parents, and teachers impacted by school shootings and living with trauma. The center provides mental health resources, and professional help, as well as a sense of community for those affected to heal.

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  • An evolving role for colleges: Training former substance abusers to be part of treatment teams

    August 02, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    The City University of New York’s College of Staten Island is among a handful but growing number of colleges that are offering peer advocate training programs to former substance abusers. These certified trainings are enabling vulnerable adults to pursue higher education, acquire skills, and use their experience to not just find employment but also support patients with recovery.

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  • How Portland is Leaning on Neighborhood Teams to Improve Heat Wave Response

    August 02, 2022 |

    Portland Mercury |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    The Ground Support Guest Transportation Unit offers a city-run alternative to relying on rideshare and cabs to transport people to cooling shelters by relying on Portland’s Neighborhood Emergency Teams (NET), a volunteer-run neighborhood group that provides services during times of need. During a July 2022 heatwave, the program received 215 ride requests, 138 of which were completed by NET volunteers.

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  • New Malcolm X Plaza hopes to provide a solution to gun violence in South Dallas

    July 29, 2022 |

    Dallas Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    The Child Poverty Action Lab in Dallas turned a vacant lot into a community plaza that hosts events like movie nights and community meals in an effort to bring the community together and reduce violence in the area.

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  • Occupy to survive: Brazilians squat to fight for housing rights

    July 29, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Brazil, São Paulo

    Housing activists have been living in an abandoned building — Prestes Maia — since 2002. Through their years of activism, occupying the space and working to make the 22-story high-rise livable Prestes Maia is being transformed into social housing for the families that have been living there for the past several years.

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  • How BFF is reintegrating obstetric fistula patients back into society

    July 28, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kaduna

    The Bashir Fistula Foundation (BFF) provides free surgeries to remedy obstetric fistula, as well as rehabilitation services to integrate patients back into society. Since the organization was formed in 2018, approximately 98 women have benefitted from free surgical intervention.

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