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  • Taking Each Person as They Are: Gender-Inclusive Housing Provides Support for LGBTQ+ Students

    August 23, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Gender-inclusive housing at Occidental College in Los Angeles allows students to live together regardless of gender. This gives transgender and non-binary students the opportunity to choose the living space they are most comfortable with.

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  • When students don't show up, attendance detectives are on the case

    August 22, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    High schools in Colorado are using federal COVID funding to hire Zero Dropouts. The company finds students not attending school and helps get them back on track.

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  • Sowing dignity: Vertical Harvest grows produce – and community

    August 22, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Jackson, Wyoming

    Vertical Harvest is a farm that employs people with disabilities and uses customized employment plans for each person to tailor their work to their strengths and aspirations. The farm was created to address the difficulty people with disabilities can have finding meaningful employment.

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  • How a high-risk California town learned to live with fire

    August 22, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Topanga, California

    Residents of a California town with a high fire risk collectively increased the fire resistance of their homes through actions like brush removal, landscaping, and renovations.

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  • With an Affinity to Care

    August 12, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Centreville, Michigan

    In an effort to reduce incarceration, homelessness, and hospitalization, Affinity House provides people with mental illness a free place to form social connections and work their way towards employment one step at a time with the clubhouse staff.

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  • How Delta community developed other professions to survive oil spill

    August 10, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Delta

    As a result of incessant oil spills, a rural community that once relied on fishing for food and its main source of income has begun to diversify its skills and occupations by pursuing more lucrative jobs like tapping rubber trees and growing cassava. Pivoting their occupations has helped to keep families out of poverty, children in school and keep the village’s economy afloat.

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  • Why Scotland Is Opening a Dementia Center in a National Park

    August 09, 2022 |

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    The nonprofit Alzheimer Scotland hosts outdoor events in Cairngorms National Park for people with dementia and their families to give them the opportunity to enjoy the outdoors safely.

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  • ‘House of Memories': Making Museums Dementia-Inclusive

    August 09, 2022 |

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    Response Location: England

    The House of Memories program teaches caregivers of people with dementia tactics based off of museum curation that help boost communication and connection.

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  • In Cleveland, fine dining serves up training – and dignity – after prison

    August 09, 2022 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    The owner of Edwins Leadership & Restaurant Institute in Cleveland, Ohio, employs formerly incarcerated adults and teaches them the skills they need to work in the culinary industry. Less than 1% of the institute’s trainees are re-incarcerated after graduation.

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  • Combating veteran suicides with peers, therapy, housing — and a little horse sense

    August 06, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Swords to Plowshares is a San Francisco nonprofit providing homeless veterans with a place to live and different types of therapy while working to get them jobs, military benefits, and permanent housing.

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