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  • Community Regional offering breastfeeding education and resources to Valley mothers

    September 26, 2023 |

    KFSN-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Fresno, California

    The Mother's Resource Center provides resources, education and a support system for women working to breastfeed their newborns. The Center has been open for 15 years — though it's recently been seeing an increase in moms in need of services — and all services and resources are available to mothers at an adjustable fee depending on their financial situation.

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  • Incarcerated people partner with state officials to encourage voter turnout in prisons

    September 25, 2023 |

    Maine Morning Star |

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    Response Location: United States, Maine

    In Maine, one of only two states where people in prison retain their right to vote, the Maine State Prison branch of the NAACP engages incarcerated voters through flyers, posters, guest speakers, and group discussions about political issues. Over the past two decades, the organization has helped more than 1,000 people register to vote in Maine prisons.

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  • In Borno, group helps Boko Haram survivors build trauma resilience

    September 25, 2023 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Chibok, Borno State

    The Yerwa Youth Initiative aims to improve children's mental health and well-being by providing support and hosting training sessions to teach youth how to manage their mental health in a positive way. Those who participate in the program are then encouraged to help start Mental Health Clubs in their schools to share what they’ve learned and connect with other youth in need of support.

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  • What America can learn from Canada's new '$10 a Day' child care system

    September 23, 2023 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: Canada, British Columbia

    The $10 a Day initiative, which started in British Columbia and is now being expanded throughout Canada, subsidizes child care centers so that tuition for families can be capped at a more affordable rate. Between 2021 and 2022, the government helped fund 1,271 child care spaces in the province.

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  • Miyawaki: A little forest with a towering task

    September 22, 2023 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

    Video |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Residents of Cambridge, Massachusetts, are planting Miyawaki forests to help regenerate the local ecosystem, sequester carbon, and cool the air. Originally created in Japan, these forests consist entirely of native plants made to mimic a natural forest in a small area of urban land.

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  • The Rise of Indigenous Doulas

    September 21, 2023 |

    Native News Online |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    In an effort to reduce maternal mortality for Native mothers, Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services provides free physical, emotional, educational and spiritual support to Indigenous mothers and their families throughout the entire pregnancy and birth process. Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services emerged in 2019 and since then its team of five Indigenous doulas has provided culturally-relevant care to more than 150 pregnant Native women with a maternal and infant mortality rate of zero.

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  • How artificial intelligence plus local expertise can promote ‘good fire' in Montana

    September 21, 2023 |

    Montana Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Montana

    The Potential Operational Delineations (PODs) framework combines analytics and local expertise to assess fire risk by marking out locations on a map where fire can best be stopped. The risk is then used to identify where best to suppress the fire and where it can continue to burn to benefit the environment and prevent future fires. From there, experts decide how to respond to a fire in each section of the map in advance, which can also include prevention tactics.

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  • Burgers but no beers: Emigrant Gap restaurant is connected to drug-alcohol recovery program

    September 21, 2023 |

    Sacramento Bee |

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    Response Location: United States, Emigrant Gap, California

    The Sierra-Pacific Teen Challenge program supports people in recovery from drug and alcohol abuse with robust skills training, employment, on-site housing, and peer support. Of those who complete the program, about 85% remain clean and sober after 5 years.

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  • Omamas: Roma women fighting generational poverty in Slovakia

    September 21, 2023 |

    Ereb |

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    Response Location: Slovakia, Zborov

    Through the Omama program, Roma women provide individual lessons to Roma children under the age of six living in settlements and disadvantaged communities, where they may not have access to crucial early childhood education. The lessons, which focus on motor skills, cognitive development, and Slovak language proficiency, have benefited roughly 900 children so far.

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  • ‘A good place:' Queer youth seek acceptance at state's first foster home for LGBTQ+ teens

    September 20, 2023 |

    WCBU Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Lawrence Hall’s transitional housing in Chicago is a safe space for members of the LGBTQ+ community in the foster care system to live and receive wraparound support while they get ready for the next step in their lives, whatever that may be. Many of the staff also identify as LGBTQ+ and help them learn to cook, keep a job, or answer questions about things like hormone therapy and gender-affirming care.

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