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  • Muckleshoot Tribal College makes history with doctoral graduates

    July 02, 2023 |

    Indian Country Today |

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    Response Location: United States, Tacoma, Washington

    The Muckleshoot Cohort is an Indigenous-led doctoral program in educational leadership that is built around Indigenous culture and knowledge. The initiative, which encourages students to reclaim their Native identities and tackle generational trauma related to the colonized education system, graduated 10 students in its inaugural class.

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  • Not at school or work? Chicago wants to support 45,000 disconnected youth.

    June 29, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Chicago’s Back to Our Future program aims to support youth who have stopped attending school with mentorship, mental health services, job search help, and “soft skills” training. Participants receive a stipend during their first twelve weeks in the program, and roughly 465 students have taken part so far.

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  • Insurgency spiked crime rate, but this software beats it down

    June 29, 2023 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Maiduguri

    To prevent crimes related to tricycles in Maiduguri, Nigeria, the SecureN software was created to verify the vehicles through a registration process. Once they are vetted by a state association, operators and owners are given an identity card, certificate, and QR code for riders to scan before they board. The program also collects tax money.

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  • Portland Street Response is working — and in jeopardy

    June 27, 2023 |

    Street Roots |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    Portland Street Response sends mental health staff, medics, community health workers, and peer support specialists into crisis situations with the goal of reducing intervention by police. The program has reduced calls to police for non-criminal cases by 3.5 percent and has resulted in only one arrest, compared to 371 arrests made by police for similar calls.

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  • How to build a zero-waste economy

    June 21, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States

    Entrepreneurs are encouraging reuse models like return-from-home systems to transition towards a circular economy without single-use plastics. In this model, consumers pay a deposit to use takeout boxes, cups, and other containers. They get their deposit back when the containers are picked up from their home by a courier.

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  • Medeecal: An e-health platform closes the medical desert in West Africa

    June 19, 2023 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Sierra Leone

    The Medeecal app increases healthcare access by providing a range of telehealth services including health education, free medical consultations, preventative care, referrals and follow-up care. As of March 2023, the app has over 1,000 registered patients and provides about eight consultations a day.

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  • How a Black Community Brought Affordable Health Care and Clean Water to Rural South Carolina in the 1970s

    June 19, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Beaufort, South Carolina

    Facing a lack of potable water and government help, local advocates joined forces to find solutions and created an affordable community health center called Comp Health, and later their own water source, the Levy Limehouse Bellinger Hill Water Company in the 1970s. The new water system created jobs and helped influence better outcomes for the predominantly Black areas it served by eliminating contaminated water, decreasing infant mortality by two-thirds.

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  • Immersive Language School Renews Generational Dreams of Cherokee Culture

    June 10, 2023 |

    Native News Online |

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    Response Location: Cherokee Nation, United States, Cherokee, North Dakota

    New Kituwah Academy Elementary provides immersive language education for members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, helping to keep the band’s language and culture alive. Students speak exclusively in Cherokee until third grade and then use both English and Cherokee throughout the school day to build proficiency in both languages.

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  • Could access to child care be the key to helping parents clear arrest warrants?

    June 08, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Pontiac, Michigan

    Lawyers, clerks, and judges are voluntarily hosting warrant clinics around the United States to help people address active warrants for their arrest — typically small traffic violations and misdemeanors. The clinics offer childcare, too, which is a common barrier for parents looking to address warrants.

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  • Oregon community colleges see success in revamp of remedial education

    June 07, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Salem, Oregon

    Nine Oregon community colleges offer “corequisite” courses that allow students to get help and review past material alongside required math courses rather than being routed into a remedial option that can slow progress toward their degree. So far, 68 percent of corequisite students have passed their college math coursework, as compared to 65 percent of students who took math classes without the corequisite add-on.

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