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  • ‘Chipping away at barriers': Nurse practitioners filling primary-care gap

    Mary-Kay Whittaker
    2022-09-13 02:48:51 UTC
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    March 15, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Canada, Ontario

    Nurse practitioner-led clinics in Ontario, Canada, are open for same-day appointments to care for people without a primary health-care provider and decrease the number of emergency-room patients.

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  • When to take the keys away? Driver evaluation takes burden off caregivers to decide

    Scott Scanlon
    2022-09-09 23:18:58 UTC
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    March 11, 2022 |

    The Buffalo News |

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    Response Location: United States, Michigan

    The Erie County Medical Center’s Driver Rehabilitation Program tests drivers' physical and cognitive abilities, to recommend whether or not they should remain behind the wheel.

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  • In Holland People With Dementia Can Work on a Farm

    Elizabeth Hewitt
    2022-09-08 23:41:23 UTC
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    March 07, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Brielle, Holland

    Care farms in the Netherlands allow people with dementia to work alongside farmers in joint responsibility and decision-making. This work provides physical and emotional benefits like movement, social interaction, and a sense of purpose.

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  • Tucson crisis center expanding services for faster mental health care

    Caitlin Schmidt
    2023-12-01 21:25:19 UTC
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    March 03, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    The Crisis Response Center provides mental health and crisis care services as an alternative to emergency rooms or jails. The center is staffed 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and offers a variety of services focused on recovery for children, teens and adults struggling with mental health and/or substance abuse. The Center is set to expand ahead of the new 988 dialing code for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Once expansions are done, the Center will have the capacity to serve between 400 and 600 extra visits a month, on top of the 800 to 1,000 adults who visit the center each month.

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  • Faith based group offers hope to girls suffering vesicovaginal fistula

    Udeh Obaziota
    2023-02-24 20:50:39 UTC
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    February 24, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Calabar, Cross River

    Medical Missionaries of Mary is a Christian faith-based organization that works to complement the government's efforts of helping those experiencing vesicovaginal fistula by providing access to surgery for free. The group also addresses stigma around the condition and helps create a sense of community for patients.

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  • When the Doctor is Just a Truck Away

    Vanessa Obioha
    2023-02-23 21:30:41 UTC
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    February 23, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    The MTN Y’ello Doctor initiative is a medical outreach program that targets underserved communities via mobile clinic trucks. The mobile clinic truck increases healthcare access, helps with healthcare costs, and provides services like treatment for malaria, vaccinations, and screening for other conditions. The trucks provide healthcare to anyone who needs it but has a focus on children and expecting mothers. So far, a total of 97,844 patients have been treated for various ailments thanks to the mobile clinics.

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  • Rootead gives birth to groundbreaking family care clinic

    Ben Lando
    2022-11-03 20:49:05 UTC
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    Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

    Rootead is a mind-and-body-focused nonprofit that opened the Obodo Perinatal Easy Access Clinic which aims to prioritize the safety of the pregnant and parenting, with a goal of decreasing infant and mother mortality rates that are disproportionately higher for Black women and babies.

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  • How Saanich Peninsula's Shoreline Medical Society has been fighting the doctor shortage

    Emily Fagan
    2022-02-21 03:37:44 UTC
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    February 11, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Canada, Saanich Peninsula, British Columbia

    Shoreline Medical is a non-profit primary care network on the Saanich Peninsula that has expanded residents’ access to primary care doctors. The group has successfully attracted family care doctors despite a severe shortage through combining community and hospital-based care. Doctors spend five weeks working in family medicine and one week assisting with low-severity cases in the emergency room. The physician staffing growth has allowed Shoreline to increase their patient case load to over 17,000 residents, 11,000 of whom previously lacked a primary care doctor.

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  • Can Farmers Help Each Other Navigate Mental Health Crises?

    Lela Nargi
    2022-08-26 20:07:44 UTC
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    February 01, 2022 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Wisconsin

    Programs like Farm Well Wisconsin, offer behavioral and wellness services to help farmers experiencing mental health challenges. These programs provide mental health resources as well as training to identify signs of stress and employ active listening tactics. Since 2021, Farm Well Wisconsin has trained about 150 farmers and community members in these mental health skills.

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  • To Stem Shootings, Poughkeepsie Is Bringing Therapy Directly to City Streets

    Ann Givens
    2022-06-21 17:37:35 UTC
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    January 31, 2022 |

    The Trace |

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    Response Location: United States, Poughkeepsie, New York

    SNUG Street Outreach is a state-funded violence prevention program that brings mental health care out into the community to the places where people spend their time. Trained social workers go out into the street, people’s homes and local businesses where they establish relationships and slowly build up to providing counseling through more casual conversations, even over text messages. A community-based approach allows them to connect with people who are at high-risk of committing gun violence, as well as people who have been victims of gun violence themselves or in their social networks or communities.

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  • Solutions journalism…
    • Describes a response to a problem and how it works.
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  • The Solutions Story Tracker® is a curated, searchable database of solutions journalism stories — rigorous reporting about responses to social problems. We vet and tag every story in the Story Tracker, which offers an inspiring and useful collection of the thousands of ways people are working to solve problems around the world.

  • You can learn more about how we source, vet, and tag stories here, as well as how we share them. We also have video tutorials in Spanish and French that show how to use the Solutions Story Tracker to find what you need.

  • Story collections are curated by our staff or other partners to explore a theme, pattern, or trend via selected solutions stories and external resources. Some story collections focus on an in-depth exploration of a topic with solutions journalism; others highlight journalists and how they report on topics. Certain story collections include discussion questions and notes, so that educators and community discussion leaders can lead learners to fully engage with the stories.

  • The Solutions Story Tracker® is powered by user submissions. We encourage submissions from journalists, as well as from anyone who has an eye for solutions journalism. Click here to submit. (Why submit? So many reasons!)

  • You can submit a story directly on the Solutions Story Tracker®. You will be prompted to register or log into the Solutions Journalism Network website, if you are already logged in. (It is free to register!) Logging in allows you to track the status of your submissions under My Profile, as well as save your favorite stories, create story collections and story alerts, and access other helpful features of our website.

  • After you submit a story to us and assign it a topic, it is sent to one of our Solutions Story Tracker team members. Our team member evaluates the story for the four qualities of solutions journalism, and on the basics: The story must come from a news outlet and have a date and a byline. If the story meets our criteria, our team tags it accordingly and adds it to the database. If the story falls short of the mark, our team will include the reason why. We include stories in the Story Tracker that meet our standards of solutions journalism. Inclusion does not mean we support the initiatives, policies, organizations or approaches featured in those stories.

    Discover common reasons why a story may miss the mark for inclusion in the Solutions Story Tracker®.

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  • Solutions Journalism Network features these stories in the searchable database making them publicly accessible to anyone who wants to search for rigorous reporting on solutions to social problems. Any story that is added has the potential to make more impact than its original purpose. Added stories are used in journalism trainings, school curricula, research projects, and independent analysis on issue area trends. This now includes artificial intelligence tools, which are applied for educational value to find stories and support story vetting, as well as to extract insights from the stories. SJN has digital products and newsletters that give new life and exposure to the stories meeting people where they are at. Story data also is used to develop innovative tools to reach the general public with solutions journalism as well as some specific research projects requested by researchers. If you have any questions or concerns about our use of story data or added stories, please contact Lita Tirak.

  • News outlets determine whether all users can access their stories — and some limit the number of stories that anyone can view, or require a subscription. The majority of stories in the database can be accessed for free.

  • We work with journalists, academic researchers and others who feel that our database will support their research. We are especially interested in research that seeks to develop new insights about solutions journalism and its spread and its impact on social problems. Please complete all sections of the Data Request Form, and we will contact you to discuss your request in greater detail.

  • We do not fact-check the stories in the Solutions Story Tracker®. We do ensure that each story comes from a credible news source that has its own editorial infrastructure.

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