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What Can New York Learn from New Jersey's Bail Reform?

Beth Fertig

January 04, 2018 |

WNYC |

Radio |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, New Jersey

In 2017, New Jersey eliminated the cash bail system – meaning that potential offenders awaiting court could not be held in jail for money. Instead, judges use an algorithm that considers the individual’s criminal history, flight risk, and threat level to the community. As New York considers doing the same, it looks the impact it has made in New Jersey.

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In push to end child marriage in Guatemala, young women are on the front line

Sara Schonhardt

December 28, 2017 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: Guatemala, Tierra Blanca

In some rural parts of Guatemala, "more than half the girls...marry before the age of 18." While a coalition of organizations was able to lobby lawmakers, and raise the legal marriage age to 18, real changes happened at the community level when mentors engaged with girls.

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Lifting Up Community Voices to Tackle Injustice

Jean Trounstine

December 26, 2017 |

Truthout |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Richmond, Virginia

This article uses the stories of five different activist women across the United States as examples of successes using the human-centered design strategy of centering the people most directly affected in the decision-making and healing process. The women work in a variety of justice areas (from housing equity to incarceration), but they all testify to a community justice model as being the most effective and empowering solution to past and current injustices.

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Arkansas Spurns Warehousing of Floundering Students

Heather Vogell

December 22, 2017 |

ProPublica |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Bentonville, Arkansas

The state of Arkansas cares deeply about the wellbeing of its students, as evidenced by its flourishing system of alternative schools that provide extra counseling in academics, social and mental support, and research-backed techniques that reduce bad behavior, poor grades, and absenteeism. The schools even work to dismantle the taboo around alternative schools, presenting them as an intervention rather than a punishment. The introduction of these schools correlates with a decline in Arkansas' overall dropout rate from 2002 to 2012, and nearly 10% of its graduates have spent time in alternative education.

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What Chicago is learning from Cuba when it comes to fighting infant mortality

Miles Bryan

December 22, 2017 |

Public Radio International (PRI) |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

Income inequality and limited access to healthcare contribute to high rates of infant mortality in the Englewood neighborhood in Chicago. The University of Illinois has partnered with the Cuban Ministry of Public Health to model Cuba's approach to combating infant mortality; one that has been successful in bringing down the rate of infant mortality in Cuba to lower than the U.S. national average. The team makes home visits to women of childbearing age in Englewood to ask them screening questions for a $50 stipend to try to get to the root of the infant mortality problem.

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The ‘Frequent Flier' Program That Grounded a Hospital's Soaring Costs

Arthur Allen

December 18, 2017 |

Politico |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

Sharing data between health care centers and community social services lowers health care costs and increases access to vital assistance. A software platform developed by the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation (PCCI) allows social service organizations such as homeless shelters and food pantries to coordinate with the Parkland Memorial Hospital. By identifying patients who are frequently admitted to Parkland’s emergency room, PCCI’s shared Iris system helps agencies manage individual cases and makes more efficient use of limited healthcare resources.

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Rethinking Rikers

Michael Schwirtz, Neeti Upadhye, Michael Kirby Smith, Kaitlyn Mullin

December 16, 2017 |

The New York Times |

Multi-Media |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

In the ongoing challenge to reform New York’s Rikers Island prison complex, many have turned to Chicago’s Cook County jail as a model. While Rikers has made some reforms – including group therapy for those with mental health concerns and doing away with solitary confinement for inmates under 22 – there is more that they can do to follow in Chicago's footsteps. There, they have introduced the use of real-time data collection to map violence, made mental health care a key component of their services, and trained guards in verbal de-escalation.

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As shootings and homicides drop in Englewood, a new optimism grows

Annie Sweeney

December 08, 2017 |

Chicago Tribune |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

In Chicago's Englewood neighborhood, a name long synonymous with violence and gang activity, a mix of robust, data-driven policing and community engagement reversed a spike in violence from 2016 to 2017 to a degree unmatched anywhere else in the city. A $1.5 million investment in the Strategic Decision Support Center enabled Chicago Crime Lab analysts working with police at the neighborhood level to pinpoint problems and respond quickly. At the same time, police took a less antagonistic stance toward residents. That and lowered violence produced healthier activities like block parties and job fairs.

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In a Refugee Camp, Classrooms Open Up to Somali Girls

Tonny Onyulo

December 05, 2017 |

Al-Fanar Media |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: Kenya, Daadab

Somali girls are rejecting traditional norms, refusing to marry early, and continuing their education at the Dadaab Refugee Camp in Kenya. At the camp they have access to primary, secondary, and some postsecondary education. “When the camp was established in 1991, girls made up only 5 percent of the total number of young people in education in Dadaab, according to the Lutheran World Federation. Today, female students account for almost 40 percent of those in school.”

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Denmark's new feminist party declares, 'Out with the racists! In with the feminists!'

Karis Hustad

December 04, 2017 |

Public Radio International (PRI) |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: Denmark, Copenhagen

“Out with the racists, in with the feminists!” is the slogan of a new political party in Denmark. The Feministik Initiativ is “a new intersectional feminist party in Denmark.” It won 3,258 votes in the regional election. The party hopes to counter anti-immigrant sentiment, as well as fight for issues like equal pay and zero employment discrimination.

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