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  • For Survivors Of Domestic Abuse In Papua New Guinea, Volunteers Offer Safe Havens

    June 06, 2018 |

    NPR |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Papua New Guinea

    Volunteer advocates in Papua New Guinea are trained by the United Nations to be human rights defenders and are crucial links for women facing abuse to help them navigate through legal proceedings to get protection. In a country where many officials are bribed and women have few resources to get help, the defenders are usually their only route to escape. It's dangerous work but when it works by coordinating many sectors it's effective.

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  • Could Vermont's new gun law have saved Anako Lumumba's life?

    June 06, 2018 |

    Burlington Free Press |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Burlington, Vermont

    Extreme risk protection orders can be effective in removing guns from dangerous people, but even though Vermont has such a law on the books, making it work effectively is difficult because it places most of the burden to prove the danger on the victim. Even if a risk protection order exists, law enforcement cannot take someone's guns if that person refuses unless they get a search warrant. The law's pitfalls were evident after the shooting death of a Burlington woman by her estranged partner.

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  • Gun Studies: Permit Laws Reduce Murders; Red Flag Laws Cut Suicides

    June 04, 2018 |

    NPR |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Indiana

    New research on “red flag laws,” which allow the removal of guns police or courts deem someone is a danger to themselves or others, shows they have been effective at reducing firearms-related suicides when there is effective enforcement. However there is little data on how they affect murder rates, while gun permit laws requiring people to have licenses to buy guns do appear to decrease murder rates, according to another new study.

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  • Where to turn when your child has a mental health crisis? In Kent County, help comes to you.

    May 30, 2018 |

    Michigan Radio |

    Multi-Media |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Kent County, Michigan

    Network180 manages the Children's Crisis Response Team in Kent County, Michigan, a program that is serving as a resource for parents to call if their children are experiencing a mental heath crisis. If parents are in need of immediate assistance, they can call the response team and they'll be met by mental health clinicians instead of by police or other emergency services, where it would take longer to treat the issue.

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  • "Sources of Strength" to Join Western State's Suicide Prevention Work

    May 29, 2018 |

    KBUT Community Radio |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Gunnison, Colorado

    Western State Colorado University is implementing an on-campus program called "Sources of Strength". The program helps prevent suicide by connecting trained students with their at-risk peers. The program will be used alongside the "question, persuade, refer" training that is administered to students and faculty to be used in a suicide crisis situation.

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  • Drawing on historical strengths to prevent problems in the future

    May 24, 2018 |

    Alaska Public Media |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Hooper Bay, Alaska

    Qungasvik, a program developed by and for Yup’ik people living in Alaska, focuses on skills, craft making, and community connection. The program provides a strong support system and is helping to decrease incidence of alcoholism, suicide, and isolation among the Yup’ik.

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  • Amid Debate Over Gun Policy, An Unlikely Team Finds Some Consensus in N.H.

    May 23, 2018 |

    New Hampshire Public Radio |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    With rising suicide rates and the high rate of suicide by firearm, gun owners and public health workers collaborating in the hopes of preventing more deaths. The Gun Shop Project, based in New Hampshire, is working to provide gun store owners and firearm instructors with fliers and videos about suicide prevention.

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  • Harm Reduction

    May 12, 2018 |

    Temple University |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Kensington, Pennsylvania

    Hepatitis C along with other communicable diseases are often contracted through dirty needles, but programs in Pennsylvania are trying to reduce the spread through awareness and education as well as safe-needle exchanges. These approaches all put the person first in an attempt to meet people where they're at in the recovery while also providing help instead of punishment or shaming.

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  • Reversing an Overdose

    May 12, 2018 |

    Temple University |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    A significant spike in opioid-related overdose deaths in Philadelphia has resulted in more people in the community carrying Naloxone, an opioid overdose reversal medication. Thanks to a standing order signed by the Pennsylvania physician general as well as a local health insurance company, obtaining the drug has been made much easier which in turn results in more lives potentially being saved.

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  • Training boys and girls to fight sexual violence

    March 27, 2018 |

    Nation Africa |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

    A successful training program in Nairobi is teaching girls to recognize verbal and physical assault and empowering them with the self-defense skills to respond in moments of crisis.

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