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New nonprofit offers medical interpretation

Kylie Mohr

February 13, 2019 |

Jackson Hole News & Guide |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Wyoming

Interpreters provide non-English speakers greater access to healthcare by lowering the language barrier. The Spanish-speaking translation service, La Voz, helps residents in Wyoming who cannot afford expensive on-demand translation services. Interpreters also act as advocates, helping patients communicate with doctors, coordinate their care, and come to a better understand of their treatment.

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Fighting the Stigma of Mental Illness Through Music

Michele C. Hollow

January 29, 2019 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Burlington, Vermont

Engaging with music stimulates brain activity and improves mental health. The Me2/Orchestra, a nonprofit organization, offers its volunteer musicians a stigma-free environment to reconnect with their passions and harness the healing power of music. In addition to empowering musicians who have encountered challenges due to mental illness, the Me2/Orchestra encourages community engagement to dispel misperceptions about mental illness.

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Incarcerated fathers connect with children thanks to local program

Frank Wiley

January 14, 2019 |

WEWS-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

Under 3 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

In Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the Passages program, part of its larger Fatherhood Initiative, aims to help men become more involved parents. The program, instituted in the hopes of reducing recidivism rates and creating stronger male role models in the community, provides participants with job training, emotional support, and the skills they need to be active parents for their families.

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Depression Can Be Hard To Talk About, So Farmers Turn To Twitter For Support

Maggie Mullen

December 07, 2018 |

Wyoming Public Media |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Wyoming

#Agtwitter provides a space for social connection among farmers. What started as a hashtag to disseminate advice about farming practices and farm equipment has grown into a digital space where people can connect and even vent about their personal challenges. In a region characterized by high suicide rates, Agtwitter helps lessen the often-isolating expanses of America’s mountain west.

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Coaches shift ‘locker room talk' to promote healthy relationships, respect among student athletes

Allison Dikanovic

November 14, 2018 |

Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service |

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Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Coaches have unique relationships with their players and Milwaukee is using that to help young men create healthy, respectful relationships as part of a pilot project using the curriculum Coaching Boys Into Men. The training uses ideas of teamwork and sports to apply those principles to actual situations and relationships. An evaluation of the curriculum in Sacramento found participants were less likely to commit abuse and more likely to intervene when they witness problematic behavior by peers.

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Rethinking Alaska's only maximum-security prison

Marc Lester

October 26, 2018 |

Anchorage Daily News |

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Response Location: United States, Seward, Alaska

At Spring Creek Correctional Center, top officials are instituting new programming for inmates in the hopes of creating a culture of respect and innovation, while decreasing recidivism rates. Some of the new initiatives at Spring Creek include classes in business and art, support groups for those trying to stay sober, mentorship for inmates obtaining their GED, and a discussion group on ethics and morals. What makes all of these unique? They’re all prisoner-led.

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Can Social Media Help You Lose Weight?

Anisa Subedar Mike Wendling

September 21, 2018 |

BBC |

Radio |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: United Kingdom

People trying to lose weight often turn to social media for motivation, but these sites are just as likely to discourage and mislead as educate and inspire. The better choice is to talk to a doctor or other qualified medical professional who can offer tailored advice.

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Want to end sexual violence? Feminist self-defence is the only proven solution

Edward Siddons

August 10, 2018 |

Apolitical |

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Response Location: United States

A strategy of self-defense advanced by feminists in the 1960s and 1970s shows much more efficacy in preventing sexual assaults than more recent programs aimed at perpetrators. Empowerment Self-Defence teaches an array of skills that include assertiveness and de-escalation, in addition to physical resistance and fighting. Three evaluations in the U.S., Canada and Kenya show it can decrease sexual assault, but it remains highly controversial.

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Domestic violence: Police failed to ask 11 questions that might have saved Anako Lumumba

Jess Aloe Elizabeth Murray

June 06, 2018 |

Burlington Free Press |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Burlington, Vermont

Lethality assessments have proven effective at avoiding domestic violence homicides and such a tool might have saved a Vermont woman who was murdered. The 11 questions help victims understand the danger they are in and also help law enforcement connect them with services. But officers in many counties in Vermont are either not using the tool or not doing it systematically even though an advocacy organization has pushed for its implementation and even when police chiefs embrace its use.

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Oakland restaurant devises system to combat customers' harassment of workers

Tara Duggan

March 29, 2018 |

San Francisco Chronicle |

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Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

In Oakland, California a restaurant has created a system that allows servers to covertly notify management of harassment from customers. Employees of the establishment, Homeroom, came together to develop a color-coded system that keeps servers safe from customers, gives managers the opportunity to intervene, and empowers and trusts employees when they say they’re being harassed.

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