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  • Through waste management eTrash2Cash is saving planet earth, helping women access healthcare

    December 22, 2022 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

    eTrash2Cash strives to create a healthy, sustainable zero-waste society by collecting trash and recycling it to become useful resources. It does this by employing women with low incomes to do the waste collection and recycling and in turn, provides them with social incentives like access to healthcare. So far, eTrash2Cash has diverted over 10,000 metric tons of trash out of landfills across four states and has trained 200 women on how to upcycle plastics.

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  • COVID derailed pre-K programs. MSCS is trying to get them back on track.

    December 22, 2022 |

    Chalkbeat |

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    Response Location: United States, Memphis, Tennessee

    To help incoming students recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Memphis-Shelby County Schools is emphasizing early childhood education with redoubled advertising efforts, collaboration with community groups, and an increased staff of family engagement specialists. Pre-K enrollment increased in the district in 2022-23 and students who attended pre-K are scoring higher on reading, math, and readiness exams.

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  • Tulsa Offered To Pay People To Move There. 50,000 Applied.

    December 22, 2022 |

    Next City |

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    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Tulsa, Oklahoma

    Tulsa Remote is using funding from the George Kaiser Family Foundation to offer remote workers living outside of Oklahoma $10,000, free access to a co-working space, and weekly events with other remote workers to move to the city.

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  • Chicago Experiments with Crisis Response Units, Grapples With Dilemma: Include Police or Not

    December 22, 2022 |

    MindSite News |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    The Crisis Assistance Response and Engagement (CARE) team aims to help people experiencing mental health crises without resorting to force or arrests. The CARE team is a three-person model including a paramedic, clinician, and police officer. Since September 2021, the team has responded to calls about 440 times, none of which have included force or arrests.

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  • Rural patients struggle to access expert sexual assault exams. Telehealth services are closing that gap.

    December 22, 2022 |

    The 19th |

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    Response Location: United States, Eagle County, Colorado

    teleSANE services allow remote sexual assault nurse examiners to assist patients and guide nurses through exams via video chat. teleSANE services are expanding across the country, specifically in rural areas, expanding access for those in need of care.

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  • How SMART Project Addressed Water Challenge in Onire Are Ago Community

    December 22, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Oyo State

    In rural areas where access to clean water is scarce and leads to increased waterborne illnesses, Smart Project is expanding safe water access by building wells in the community. The organization also provided the 30 households in the community with a 10-liter keg of water for cleaning, bathing, and washing dishes to prevent people from having to travel long distances to reach fresh water.

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  • This Pop-Up 'Closet' Helps LGBTQ+ People Get Gender-Affirming Clothes. It Needs Donations To Keep Going

    December 22, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    gods closet is a pop-up shop that aims to create a community experience around fashion for LGBTQ+ people who often struggle to find clothes that fit their gender identity and expression. gods closet provides the clothes and services like styling free of charge.

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  • Justice Delayed: A tale of two counties. Could Sacramento have the solution for court backlogs statewide?

    December 22, 2022 |

    CBS News |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    In just one year, the Sacramento County Criminal Justice System reduced its backlog of court cases from 1000 to 100. To do so, they increased and prioritized efficiencies like night court, collaboration with prosecutors, and bringing in judges out of retirement.

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  • Reentry and Realness

    December 22, 2022 |

    Inside Wire: Colorado Prison Radio |

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    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    The Realness Project works with incarcerated people in Colorado to build skills in effective communication, "authentic relating," and conflict management. Roughly 90 percent of participants in the organization's workshops say it helped them grow their emotional ability to handle conflict, and about 78 percent said the experience gave them more confidence during job interviews.

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  • Building community against cancer: When it comes to terminal illnesses, mental health comes first

    December 22, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

    Project Pink Blue provides psychological support, cancer awareness education, free cancer screenings, and fundraising for cancer patients and cancer research. The nonprofit has also trained healthcare workers through its Breast Cancer Navigation Program to ensure they know how to properly treat patients. So far they’ve trained 44 healthcare workers and they also run a support group of about 150 members to connect people impacted by cancer.

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