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  • How Vancouver's First United centres Indigenous healing

    February 11, 2022 |

    Broadview Magazine |

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    Response Location: Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia

    First United Church Community Ministry Society serves a majority Indigenous clientele with a transitional shelter and space for people to get their mail and use the phone, take a shower, receive a hot meal, and consult with advocacy workers. Centering Indigenous leadership is key to the organization’s mission to provide a safe place for Indigenous people to heal and rebuild their identities.

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  • In the San Luis Valley, a small town is using civic engagement to improve lives

    October 12, 2021 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Saguache, Colorado

    The Family Leadership Training Institute of Colorado is a community-driven collaborative aimed at increasing civic participation and collaboration between diverse stakeholders. The 20-week program focuses on cultivating leadership skills and teaching participants how to use their voice to advocate in their community's interests. Participants are able to develop a plan for civic engagement and receive help instituting it, including connections among government agencies. Program graduates have designed programming to strengthen their communities and started businesses with social goals.

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  • Undocumented but Unstoppable: The Undocumented Filmmakers Collective

    April 27, 2021 |

    Documentary Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Undocumented Filmmakers Collective provides a safe, inclusive, and non-competitive space for people to discuss issues they face in their careers. The nearly 40 members are spread out across the U.S. and use Zoom to form deep connections, share resources, and support one another. Navigating employment and funding issues within the filmmaking industry is a main priority, and members have collaborated on projects to bring attention to issues facing people without documentation in the film industry. Acting collective provides a louder and more powerful voice to help expand career opportunities for members.

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  • ‘Somebody cares': How schools are helping with student well-being

    March 24, 2021 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Kennesaw, Georgia

    To combat the mental health impacts of pandemic-era remote and hybrid learning, Palmer Middle School in Georgia established a grief-support group, a "stress busters" group, a book club, and a series of virtual lunch sessions with games and music to help students make connections and learn coping skills. More than 90% of students reported decreased stress levels after participating in the stress busters program, and their school attendance records also improved.

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  • Sanbornton Connect(s) seniors aging in place

    March 24, 2021 |

    The Laconia Daily Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Sanbornton, New Hampshire

    Sanbornton Connect is a local information exchange and social network for aging residents who share advice about meeting the physical, mental, and emotional challenges of living out their years independently in their own homes. The network started just before the pandemic, but quickly filled a vacuum left by the community's shutdown. Three dozen residents gather monthly on Zoom to trade tips and hear from experts. The goal is to provide personal connections in a sparsely populated town, and in a way that helps people plan before they're in a crisis as their health declines.

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  • Roanoke man creates group to unite the region's Black fathers

    August 06, 2020 |

    WSLS-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Roanoke, Virginia

    Black Father Families unites Black fathers to provide support and education, while also countering stereotypes that Black fathers are not as competent and/or are absent from their children’s’ lives, which is often internalized without realizing it. The Facebook page posts videos of Black fathers sharing their experiences and advice on fatherhood. The group also organized the Black Father Family Festival so fathers could meet in person. Now, the group supports men as they are trying to figure out how to talk with their children about the social issues and civil rights protests going on around the world.

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  • How men in Latin America are unlearning machismo

    July 09, 2020 |

    Quartz |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Mexico City

    Through workshops, hotlines, and video training organizations and groups in Latin America are working to fight against 'machista,' which translates to sexist attitudes held by men in regard to women. In Colombia, the European Union has helped to set up The National School for the Unlearning of Machismo (ENDEMA) which helps viewers identify sexist attitudes in videos illustrating everyday situations. In Mexico, Gendes, an organization supporting civil rights, holds group therapy sessions, and provides a hotline for men to call when they feel they're about to become violent.

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  • Symbiotic Relationships

    May 26, 2020 |

    Novinky.cz |

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    Response Location: Czech Republic, Brno

    Symbios, a group home in Brno, Czech Republic, aims to equip young adults who grew up in children's homes with life skills by pairing them with college-aged adults, who come from traditional home environments. Within the affordable flat, participants are paired by gender, given their own private room, and those who came from children's homes to learn basic skills like cooking, finding furniture for their unfurnished quarters, and being responsible for their own bills. The experience also allows residents to learn more about people who grew up differently, sharing similarities and differences along the way.

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  • Advocacy for LGBTQIA Children, Youth Grows in Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta

    March 16, 2020 |

    Grady Newsource |

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    Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

    The Episcopal Church advised Dioceses to be more inclusive of LGBTQIA and differently abled children and youth, particularly in light of the high numbers of LGBTQIA youth suicides. Rather than wait the years it could take for specific how-to guidance, the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta trained 30 volunteers to lead “Safeguarding” sessions where church members hear first hand accounts of the needs and concerns of LGBTQIA and differently abled youth and can form relationships with them and their families. The sessions are booked two months out and all clergy in the Diocese are being required to attend in person.

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  • After #MeToo, This Group Has Nearly Erased Sexual Harassment in Farm Fields

    March 09, 2020 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Florida

    The Fair Food Program, which educates and empowers farmworkers to report on-the-job sexual harassment, has all but eliminated sexual assaults at participating farms in an industry that otherwise is known for vast power imbalances between migrant labor and labor contractors. By giving employers key business incentives to participate and by cracking the code of silence among workers, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers-run FFP has protected employees by educating tens of thousands of them while enforcing standards through a rigorous investigation and hearings process.

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