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& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
16 October 2013
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The San Francisco Unified School District is piloting a collaboration with the design firm IDEO to re-imagine the school food system and help combat childhood obesity by better designing the space and the experience o...
NPR
Matt Stiles
11 September 2013
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Multi-Media
Under 800 Words
Playgrounds that are accessible for children with special needs can be difficult to find. NPR launched a national crowd-sourced guide called Playgrounds for Everyone, which invited individuals to add playgrounds that ...
The Washington Post
Michael Alison Chandler
13 May 2013
Manassas, Virginia, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Through programs across the country, nurses, social workers, or trained mentors offer support to new or expectant parents, imparting skills to help them become better teachers for their children. Through regular home ...
20 February 2013
South Carolina, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Improving the way people parent might seem an impossible challenge, given the competing views about what constitutes good parenting - can we influence a behavior that is rooted in upbringing and culture, affected by s...
4 February 2013
New York, New York, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
From 2001 to 2011, New York City's teen pregnancy rate decreased by 27 percent as a result of increased access to contraceptives. Public schools started providing Plan B and condoms to students.
The New York Times
John Leland
15 December 2012
New York, New York, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
New mothers who live in poverty are faced with fewer resources to help them with their physical and mental health as well as the health of their babies. In New York City, the Nurse-Family partnership matches nurses wi...
5 September 2012
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Text
1500-3000 Words
A nutrient powder can save anemic children, but the people who could benefit are distrustful. Having local mothers distribute the supplement was successful in Bangladesh.
6 May 2012
Elmira, New York, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
In 2010, 5.9 million children were reported as abused or neglected in the United States. The Nurse-Family Partnership, or NFP, arranges for registered nurses to make regular home visits to first-time low-income or vul...
4 April 2012
New Delhi, Delhi, India
Text
1500-3000 Words
In the developing world, intestinal worms stunt physical and mental growth, drain energy, and can inhibit school work for children. Deworm the World is a global campaign that lobbied the Delhi government to regularly ...
20 October 2011
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
A group called Positive Coaching Alliance is training thousands of coaches and parents to change to culture of youth sports for the better, using a "relentlessly positive" approach, and trading out the win-at-all-cost...
11 October 2011
New York, New York, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Child-mentoring programs around the United States have helped at-risk youth during crucial years of development. However, New York City's Friends of the Children has improved the model by placing at-risk youth with ad...
6 October 2011
New York, New York, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
A group in New York called Friends of the Children identifies high risk kids in the city and mentors them for 12 years helping them become emotionally stable and capable adults.
16 June 2011
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Poor neighborhoods in the United States lack quality play spaces for children, also known as play deserts. An organization is enabling communities across the nation to build their own playground.
26 May 2011
Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta, Indonesia
Text
800-1500 Words
In Jakarta’s slums, families can’t buy their children nutritious food. So Mercy Corps started a for-profit chain of food carts selling healthy kids’ meals. A second column highlights the challenges NGOs face when they...
23 May 2011
Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta, Indonesia
Text
1500-3000 Words
Asian cities are over-crowded and many residences are kitchenless, causing families with children to consume unhealthy food from the street vendors. Mercy Corps, a non-profit organization that advocates nutrition, has...
19 May 2011
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
First Book Marketplace, which makes quality, new books affordable for children in low-income families, is providing not only improved access to engaging educational materials, but a sense of dignity and self worth tha...
7 April 2011
Oakland, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Great minds from Plato to Piaget have recognized the importance of play in healthy child development, but with bullying becoming more prevalent on school playgrounds and increased pressure to maximize school hours to ...
4 April 2011
Oakland, California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Despite strong evidence that school-based physical activity improves children’s cognitive skills, concentration, and behavior, schools under pressure to produce quantitative results and decrease bullying have drastica...
13 December 2010
Bogotá, Colombia
Text
800-1500 Words
A shortage of incubators in a Bogota hospital was causing rampant infections among newborns. Kangaroo care, a system where the infant's mother is employed as a human incubator, was created and solved the shortage prob...
14 November 2004
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Research has shown the importance of infant-primary caregiver attachment for the future of the child's cognitive ability, emotional health, and parent relationship. Infant Mental Health Specialists and other practitio...
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