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  • Man Up, Balkans

    The Be a Man initiative facilitates clubs where youth learn to reexamine gender norms, talk about how to prevent violence, address harmful stereotypes, and promote healthy relationships. More than 2,000 young people have participated in Be a Man activities since the program began, and surveys show participants demonstrated greater self-esteem, improved communication and critical thinking, and stronger empathy.

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  • Partnerships, not parachutes: How Indigenous knowledge and citizen science can enhance climate research

    To fill gaps in climate data, some researchers are using a collaborative tactic known as “ethical space” to solicit and include Indigenous knowledge about climate change. Often, this results in improved conservation outcomes.

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  • Growing number of NM schools pursue restorative justice to keep kids in schools

    More New Mexico schools are adopting restorative justice as an approach to discipline, which encourages students to reflect on their actions through mediation and structured communication. Since instituting “talking circles” to help resolve conflict, Cuba Independent Schools, which serves a large Indigenous population, has seen fights decrease and attendance rates improve.

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  • La Importancia De Una Atención De Salud Mental Sensible a las Diferencias Culturales

    El Concilio, una organización sin ánimo de lucro con sede en Kalamazoo, Michigan, apoya terapeutas latinas, hispanohablantes y anglófonas que ofrecen una atención cultural y lingüísticamente apropiada para la población hispanohablante. El Concilio trabaja con otras organizaciones para encontrar comunidates y personas quien necesitan ayuda.

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  • Preventing suspensions: Tackle discipline problems with empathy first

    Behavioral management programs such as Behavioral Leadership, the Crisis Prevention Institute, and Empathic Instruction train teachers how to incentivize appropriate behaviors and lead with empathy rather than relying on punitive discipline such as suspensions. These approaches have been shown to reduce in-school suspensions and reduce disciplinary disparities for marginalized students.

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  • How Minnesota Became the Surprising Success Story of Gun Reform

    By shifting their message around gun violence to frame it as a public safety issue and narrowing the focus of proposed legislation to appeal to a wide coalition, Minnesota lawmakers were able to pass a sweeping gun reform package that included a red flag law, universal backgrounds checks, and significant investments in community violence intervention programs.

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  • At Alaska's prison farm, a different way of serving time

    Point Mackenzie Correctional Farm is a 640-acre farm, owned by the Alaska Department of Corrections, that operates as an alternative prison model. Select minimum-security inmates labor to keep the farm going throughout their sentence, producing tons of vegetable harvests (745,000 pounds of hay, nearly 5,000 pounds of tomatoes, 14,000 pounds of lettuce, 12,000 pounds of celery, 22,000 pounds of cabbage) and raising 150 cattle, 50 pigs and 300-400 chickens that produce 51,000 eggs—all of which is redistributed to other prisons and community food banks.

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  • Moved by Experience: PWD-led Initiative is Building Safe Space for Persons with Disabilities in Borno 

    Via educational workshops, the provision of mobility devices, and entrepreneurial support, a Polio-survivor-led initiative in Nigeria is reducing stigmas about disabilities and helping eradicate polio diseases. Since 2017, the crowd-funded group has assisted more than 200 people with disabilities and reduced the number of folks who have to ask for alms on the streets.

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  • Underpaid and unsupported, video game testers in Canada unionized against exploitation

    Video game testers built solidarity for their union effort by starting one-on-one conversations with coworkers in online chat servers. When it came time to vote, employees approved the union unanimously, giving them new legal protections while a contract is being negotiated.

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  • Save the Boys Initiative: Tackling Sexual Abuse and Providing Support for Boys

    The Save the Boys Initiative provides counseling, group and family therapy, programming around mentorship and leadership, and other forms of assistance for boys who have experienced sexual abuse.

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