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Foreign-born doctors fill physician shortages in the West

Jessica Kutz

February 25, 2021 |

High Country News |

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Response Location: United States, Nevada

A program known as Conrad 30 is helping some foreign-born doctors gain the ability to practice medicine in the U.S. by waiving the need for a visa. Although there are concerns about tying a visa to a job, many doctors have been able to obtain their citizenship and continue practicing in the U.S. independent of the program.

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How Banana Waste Is Turned Into Rugs, Fabric, And Hair Extensions

Jacqueline Baylon

February 19, 2021 |

Business Insider |

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5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Uganda, Kampala

A Ugandan company called TEXFAD is taking the stems from banana trees that would normally go to waste and is turning them into new textiles like rugs, place mats, and hair extensions. Over its eight year existence, TEXFAD has grown to also employ 23 people, many of whom started in their internship program for students. While the cost to make these products can be expensive, the textiles are biodegradable and use less water and land to produce.

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The Coffee Shop Giving Homeless Youth a Chance at Success

Cinnamon Janzer

February 11, 2021 |

Civil Eats |

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Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

A coffee shop is employing young people experiencing homelessness. Employment at the coffee shop provides the stability and support they need to find and maintain housing. Income, structure, and skills gained from employment at the cafe are the springboard needed for the young adults to secure stability.

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Inside the L.A.P.D.'s Experiment in Trust-Based Policing

Michaela Haas

February 05, 2021 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

The Community Safety Partnership Bureau of the Los Angeles Police Department has worked for a decade in 10 neighborhoods to prevent crime through building trust among residents, rather than through the LAPD's costly and troubled war on gangs. One study found that through long-term involvement in neighborhood life, with highly trained officers working closely with community organizers, CSP had helped increase public trust, save public money, and lower violent crime.

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Could offering a training program boost the number of substitute teachers?

Katie Ellington

February 04, 2021 |

Richland Source |

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Response Location: United States, Rhode Island

The Substitute Teacher Training Program in Rhode Island is helping to fill a need for substitute teachers, as well as helping those looking for a job a quick way to find employment. The program is completely free, self-paced, available online, but rigorous nonetheless. Over 1,200 people enrolled in the program when it opened late 2020, and so far 200 people have completed the program and 140 have found employment.

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More than goodwill: New tactics used to attract new healthcare talent as shortages grow

Sydney Kornegay Afi Scruggs

February 04, 2021 |

FreshWater Cleveland |

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Response Location: United States, Lorain, Ohio

An initiative to draw more people to entry-level healthcare professions is seeing success in Ohio. A collaboration of healthcare employers is training and promoting employees to “strengthen the healthcare employee pipeline.”

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How unemployed Californians launched new careers in a pandemic with 9 weeks of training

Jeong Park

February 02, 2021 |

Sacramento Bee |

Multi-Media |

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Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

Digital Upskill Sacramento is providing 9-week paid training sessions to participants who want to enter the tech industry. The program is allowing people who didn’t have the time, resources, or opportunity before to get hands-on training in addition to potential employment opportunities. This initiative is a result of a collaboration between several organizations and funding from the city. The funds were allotted for job training in growing industries, especially as the pandemic resulted in the loss of many jobs.

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Inmates are learning to be their own bosses after they leave jail behind

Chase DiBenedetto

January 24, 2021 |

Mashable |

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Response Location: United States, Charlotte, North Carolina

Inmates to Entrepreneurs has graduated 1 million people from its eight-week program that teaches incarcerated people how to start their own low-capital businesses. An extension of a free online entrepreneurship course, Starter U, the program offered in-person workshops until COVID forced it to go virtual. One study shows the unemployment rate in December 2020 for formerly incarcerated people was more than 27%, more than four times higher than the general public. Inmates to Entrepreneurs was started 28 years ago in North Carolina's prison system.

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'They probably saved my life' | Former inmate says nonprofit keeps him, others out of jail

Christine Byers

January 21, 2021 |

KSDK-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

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Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis' Concordance Academy of Leadership turns the traditional approach to prison re-entry programs on its head. Rather than pushing people just released from prison to find housing and a job, the academy pays its participants a living wage while it provides them with the counseling and other support they need not to slip back into trouble. Once their lives are stable, they focus in the 18-month program on employment. The 6-year-old program improves the chances of staying out of prison by more than 40%, according to one study. Concordance is raising the money it needs to expand to other cities.

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In a Brooklyn kitchen, a Statue of Liberty spirit offers a fresh start

Sarah Matusek

January 13, 2021 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Newly arrived immigrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers have found a pathway to employment through Emma’s Torch. The nonprofit eatery pays students to learn culinary skills. The program is an important stepping stone for the new arrivals to gain a foothold in the restaurant industry.

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