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  • “We Are Not Lost Causes”

    March 05, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, Rochester, New York

    In Rochester, NY, the Center for Teen Empowerment, a nonprofit that trains youth in community organizing, personal development, and anti-violence, is working to bring kids off the street and into safety. The program, which started in Boston, is centered on four ideas: jobs (paying the youth hired as organizers), teamwork, agency (letting them build their own activist agendas), and peer influence. While hard to evaluate because of its situational, qualitative nature, city officials, including law enforcement, point to the program as a factor in the decrease in violence across the city.

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  • City watchdog says Chicago's arrest diversion program for youth can't be evaluated due to poor record keeping and lack of collaboration

    February 25, 2020 |

    Chicago Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Over the past 14 years, the city of Chicago has been running a Juvenile Intervention and Support Center (JISC) to help divert youth away from the criminal justice system. The goal of the program, which took a $5 million investment, was to connect them with social services, favoring rehabilitation over punitive measures. But because of record destruction, lack of record keeping, and an inability by the police and Department of Family and Support Services to collaborate, a recent audit has proved unable to determine the success of the JISC.

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  • Teaching Children How to Reverse an Overdose

    February 23, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Elizabethton, Tennessee

    In Carter County, Tennessee, where an opioid crisis is underway, elementary-aged children and teenagers are being taught how to administer the overdose reversal nasal spray, Narcan. Although this strategy has faced opposition from some local residents, at least 100 students have administered the life-saving treatment.

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  • Talking to your neighbours is mandatory if you live here

    February 21, 2020 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Sweden, Helsingborg

    To combat loneliness, a flat in Helsingborg rents only to retirees and people under 25, and their contract requires that they spend at least 2 hours a week socializing together. The building, a former retirement home run by a housing company and funded by the city council, has many common areas to socialize including spaces to cook, workout, do arts and crafts, and play games. Most of the over 70 residents are happy to socialize and some have formed strong bonds, although there have been a few small conflicts. The managers hope to open more housing using this model in Sweden and internationally.

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  • Young Somalis Step In Where Government Fails

    February 16, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Somalia, Mogadishu

    After three decades of war and famine, Somalia's capacity to respond to emergencies and rebuild its country has been significantly diminished. To pick up the slack, young Somalis, many of whom have returned home from abroad, are stepping in to volunteer their services, from rehabilitating child soldiers, sparking tourism, addressing humanitarian crises, and even organizing book fairs.

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  • Learning Space For Child Migrants Expands In Tijuana

    February 04, 2020 |

    KPBS Public Media |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Tijuana

    "The Nest" in Tijuana is a space for migrant children to relax and be themselves during a very stressful time. "The Nest" was established by the Pedagogical Institute of Los Angeles and sits across the street from a shelter where many of their students live. Parents and other migrants also benefit from the space which they describe as stress-relieving.

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  • Free Our Youth

    January 28, 2020 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia’s Youth Art & Self-Empowerment Project (YASP) offers support for youth experiencing incarceration. Funded by personal donations and grants, they offer art workshops and classes on how to navigate the justice system, manage funds to bail individuals out, and advocate for criminal justice reform. Their advocacy also helped end the practice of sentencing juveniles to life without parole.

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  • How to stop youth violence: Role models, mentors, glimpses of life's possibilities

    January 23, 2020 |

    syracuse.com |

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    Response Location: United States, Syracuse, New York

    At Syracuse, New York’s Hillbrook Detention Center for youth, the Thinking For A Change program provides kids with classes – taught by mentors with similar backgrounds – like conflict resolution, anger management, problem-solving, and how to recognize signs of abuse. The program is part of a national shift toward rehabilitation and community-based programming, which is associated with a decrease in the number of youth experiencing incarceration.

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  • Meet ‘Firefighter' in Middle of New York Hospital's War Against Gun Violence

    January 21, 2020 |

    Juvenile Justice Information Exchange |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Guns Down Life Up intervenes immediately after incidents of gun violence to prevent retaliation, but then goes further to counsel at-risk youth and to provide victim counseling to help families in the wake of violence. Part of a growing movement of hospital-based violence intervention, the group’s “credible messengers” work in Harlem and South Bronx hospitals to interrupt the cycles of violence that often result in repeat victimization, which anecdotally at least it can show has worked. Then its counseling gives youth safe activities off the streets and teaches better conflict mediation tactics.

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  • Youth Teaching Tech To Seniors Fosters Generational Connections

    January 20, 2020 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Albuquerque, New Mexico

    How does one Albuquerque organization address social isolation among senior citizens? It recruits teens to teach technologies 101. Teeniors creates intergenerational relationships by encouraging teens to spend time with seniors and teach them how to adequately use technology like smart phones or computer applications.

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