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  • Why This Group Handles Grief By Boxing

    November 08, 2019 |

    Side Effects Public Media |

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    Response Location: United States, Indianapolis, Indiana

    Overdose Lifeline is an organization in Indianapolis, Indiana that is using boxing classes as support groups for those struggling with grief. After noticing a pattern of anger in those the organization aimed to help, the group started "grief boxing" as a way to help work through those feelings.

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  • Uganda rolls out a self-injectable birth control method

    November 02, 2019 |

    Daily Monitor |

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    Response Location: Uganda

    To eliminate barriers for access to birth control, Uganda's Advance Family Planning Project has released a new device that allows women to self-inject a dose of contraceptive once every three months. So far, women have reported that it eliminates the need to stand in line at health facilities while also it allowing for privacy.

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  • In Classes on Mental Health, Bus Drivers Learn to Keep an Eye on Kids

    October 25, 2019 |

    WTVJ-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Miami, Florida

    Florida officials have turned to an unlikely source to help identify children with mental health stressors: bus drivers. After the Parkland shooting, the state established classes for bus drivers to learn about child psychology and behavioral science as a way to analyze why children may act out on the ride to or from school.

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  • Suicide Is Preventable. Hospitals and Doctors Are Finally Catching Up

    October 24, 2019 |

    Time Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Tennessee

    Medical professionals throughout the United States are starting to implement mental health screenings during routine care in order to better assess those at risk of suicide. Using a combination of health records and questionnaires to flag which patients should have continued follow-ups, clinics and primary care specialists prioritization of suicide intervention is already showing significant results.

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  • Youth suicide prevention that works

    October 23, 2019 |

    The Laconia Daily Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Laconia, New Hampshire

    New Hampshire K-12 schools are trying a variety of different initiatives to try to reduce the rates of suicide amongst youth. So far, two school-based prevention programs – one used in New Hampshire and one used in Sweden – have shown evidence of success. Both teach students how to recognize signs of depression and suicide risk and have reduced the rate of suicidal thoughts and attempts.

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  • Cook County Jail Program Helping Prevent Opioid Overdose Deaths By Providing Released Inmates With Naloxone

    October 21, 2019 |

    WBBM-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Illinois

    After recognizing that just-released inmates were more likely to overdose on opioids, Cook County Jail partnered with Cook County Health to train at-risk detainees how to administer Naloxone nasal spray. This program also provides released detainees with Naloxone kits, and has recorded significant success from this process.

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  • 'The Hardest Part Was Finding a Job'

    October 21, 2019 |

    Ms. Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, McLoud, Oklahoma

    Oklahoma’s Mabel Bassett Correctional Center is seeing its first graduating class of women coders. A nonprofit called The Last Mile offers training programs for incarcerated individuals with the goal of equipping them with timely job skills upon re-entry. Those that are a part of the program participate in 40 hours of class per week for a year, learning coding programs like CSS, HTML, and Bootstrap.

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  • In Cahoots: How the unlikely pairing of cops and hippies became a national model

    October 20, 2019 |

    The Register-Guard |

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    Response Location: United States, Eugene, Oregon

    Long before CAHOOTS became a national model for replacing police on some 911 calls with mobile crisis-response teams of medics and counselors, it represented an "odd marriage of police resources and counterculture philosophies." The acronym for Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets is in fact a sly reference to White Bird Clinic's hippies "in cahoots" with cops. But the police have long since made their peace with the service, which spends a tiny fraction of what it costs to run Eugene's police department while handling a large share of non-violent crises involving homelessness and mental health.

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  • IntegratE; Breaking down barriers in the uptake of family planning services in Kaduna State

    October 14, 2019 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Karatudu, Kaduna

    In Nigeria, a project known as IntegratE is gaining traction as a means to improve access to and understanding around family planning. Specifically focused on increasing contraceptive coverage for women, this program trains health workers – not just hospitals, clinics and pharmacies – to become Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors and Community Pharmacists in order to make access easier, especially for teenagers and young adults.

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  • In France, Elder Care Comes with the Mail

    October 09, 2019 |

    The New Yorker |

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    Response Location: France, Revin

    Mail carriers in France are stepping in to provide health checks to the vulnerable and elderly as part of a program known as Veiller Sur Mes Parents – or “Watch Over My Parents.” Not only does this service help create connections between community members and provide reassurance to family members, but it also acts as an additional stream of revenue for La Poste by expanding the postal work job description to include "picking up prescriptions, returning library books, and delivering flowers."

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