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Is New York's Mental-Health System Listening to the Peers Who've Lived It?

Noah Phillips

February 13, 2019 |

City Limits |

Text |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

In New York City, much of the mental health infrastructure relies on the work of professionals known as Peer Specialists, who are individuals with lived experiences of mental health challenges and additional training to help others in a similar situation. Peer Specialists have recently been organizing around issues such as low pay and a lack of legitimacy in the eyes of their colleagues in the mental health industry.

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How to Cut U.S. Emissions Faster? Do What These Countries Are Doing.

Brad Plumer , Blacki Migliozzi

February 13, 2019 |

The New York Times |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: Canada

Across the world, countries are taking heavy swings to reduce their impact on climate change. From British Columbia’s carbon tax, to Norway’s incentivization of electric vehicles, to the European Union’s legislation that ends the use of hydrofluorocarbons, the United States could learn a lot from these initiatives. As American lags behind in this effort, citing these initiatives, or even better yet, applying them all, could have a drastic impact.

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‘No men allowed': The gym getting women fit and into work

Kathleen Hawkins

February 12, 2019 |

BBC |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Turkey, Istanbul

Women only gyms are gaining popularity in Turkey, encouraging women to work out in a comfortable setting as well as to gain financial independence and entrepreneurial advice. Many of these women use their gym networks to overcome obstacles in the business community in open their own gyms, despite the pushback against women working outside of the home.

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Baltimore enacts new rules to root out squalid rental properties. But some tenants could lose their homes

Doug Donovan

February 07, 2019 |

The Baltimore Sun |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

Baltimore passed a law that cracks down on rental property owners that have been operating without required inspection, leaving renters living in squalor. While critics fear that owners and landlords may lose business, advocates note that living conditions have drastically improved for those renting homes in these buildings.

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New Platform Gives Black-Led Baltimore Groups a Chance to Shine

Jared Brey

February 07, 2019 |

Next City |

Text |

Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

New grassroots efforts often struggle to get off the ground due to lack of funding. In Baltimore, a group called CLLCTIVLY aims to fix this problem for black-led non-profit organizations by offering a $1,000 prize every month for a year through its Black Futures Micro-Grant program. CLLCTIVLY has also launched an asset map to connect these smaller efforts to each other.

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In Nigeria, documentary films spark social change

Innocent Eteng

February 07, 2019 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

Text |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Port Harcourt

A local, grass-roots art project in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, spreads awareness about and encourages action against government-sponsored evictions in the city's low-income communities. Cinematic films, music, and journalistic storytelling help spread the humanity and character of the communities to appeal to government entities to let people stay.

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San Francisco shares its schoolyards, opening communities to green spaces and one another's lives

Nina Feldman

February 06, 2019 |

WHYY |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

Access to green spaces improves the well being of individuals and neighborhoods alike. By turning schoolyards into publicly accessible green spaces, the city of San Francisco’s Shared Schoolyard Program created spaces where not only children, but also urban communities, can interact with and experience nature. The schoolyards provide a vital recreational resource and meeting space for entire neighborhoods and communities.

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Where Sex Education Fails, Technology Can Help

Sydney Worth

February 05, 2019 |

Yes! Magazine |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States

A smartphone app connects users with sex experts who are qualified to answer questions about healthy sex and relationships. Juicebox aims to fill gaps in the heteronormative sex education offered in U.S. schools and serves as a substitute for students who receive no sex education or who are only exposed to abstinence-only lessons.

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Inside Marygrove College's new direction: How it was saved and where it's going

David Sands

February 05, 2019 |

Model D |

Text |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

Like many institutions of higher education, Marygrove College in Northwest Detroit has faced significant financial strains in recent years. However, perhaps unique to Marygrove, the college is in the process of transforming the community anchor and asset into a more sustainable educational model -- a cradle-to-career approach that includes a new preschool and K-12 school on the campus. "It's a big leap. The hope is that this is going to become an educational model that can be used in urban areas throughout the country," Marygrove's president Elizabeth Burns said.

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Denver Pays Homeless Residents to Help Clean Up the City

Alan Thompson, Hallie Steiner

February 04, 2019 |

NationSwell |

Video |

Under 3 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

After a highly successful pilot run, Denver formally instituted Denver Day Works, an initiative that pays homeless residents to clean up and landscape the city during the day. So far, the program has helped over 150 people find permanent employment.

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