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  • Welcoming Relatives Home: A Ceremony for Salmon

    December 12, 2024 |

    LGBTQ Nation |

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    Response Location: United States

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  • University students across Chicago influence schools to stock period products

    December 01, 2023 |

    ILLatinoNews.com (Illinois Latino News) |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Blood Buds is a university student-led organization that works to fight period poverty by contacting student advisors to ensure period product dispensers across campus are consistently filled. The group also pushed the university to add a contact number to dispensers to students can call or text to let someone know the machine is empty. Currently, the university has 34 dispensers across campus.

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  • How Detroit community groups are helping schools chip away at chronic absenteeism

    November 28, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    To help address high rates of chronic absenteeism in Detroit, community organizations like The Konnection offer holistic support for students, such as resource closets stocked with clothes and hygiene products, Uber gift cards, and an after-school club with enrichment programs. Collaboration with community groups contributed to a 12 percent drop in chronic absenteeism rates at one Detroit school last year.

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  • CUNY sees ‘enormous' October application spike, as efforts to boost enrollment continue

    November 20, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    In an attempt to combat pandemic-era drops in enrollment, the City University of New York network sent personalized letters to seniors graduating from public high schools in the city and waived application fees for these students for the month of October. The network saw its number of applicants jump 386 percent compared to the same month last year.

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  • Native teachers build nations: More Indigenous people are training to be teachers in Arizona

    November 18, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    The Indigenous Teacher Education Program at the University of Arizona trains budding educators to better support students in Tribal communities, with the goal of increasing the number of Indigenous teachers in the school system. Since launching in 2018, the program has produced more than 50 graduates.

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  • Indigenous Gardens Cultivate Healing

    November 09, 2023 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Corvallis, Oregon

    Colleges like Oregon State University (OSU), are re-indigenizing the campus landscape to create a welcoming, healing space and stop the further erasure of Indigenous culture and presence on college campuses. OSU created an ethnobotanical garden, full of Native plants and crops, as well as an Indigenous center for students and staff to gather on campus. These gardens and Indigenous spaces help to show the community how Native plants can sustain people and OSU plans to continue improving its cultural offerings by installing Native signage around campus and holding Indigenous cultural burnings.

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  • Transforming Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health: The Tombey Approach

    November 06, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kwara

    The Hacey Health Initiative’s Tombey project works to connect young people — especially young girls — with reliable, accurate information about sexual and reproductive rights and health (SRHR), as well as relevant sexual and reproductive health services. The Tombey Project offers an online SRHR course, a “sexiontary” full of SRHR terms and definitions and connections to youth-friendly counseling services. Since 2016, over 3,000 youth have taken the Tombey Project’s online course and it’s estimated that over 100,000 young people across the country have been impacted by the Tombey Project in some way.

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  • A Navajo teacher is among the first Colorado educators to revive Indigenous language in the classroom

    November 06, 2023 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Durango, Colorado

    To better serve Indigenous students, Durango School District 9-R has created an advisory council for Native American parents, designated specific staff to help support Native students, and developed an Indigenous language course where they can reconnect to their culture by learning Diné Bizaad. Students report that the course is more engaging than learning about Navajo history via a textbook, and the district has shown progress in closing opportunity gaps for Indigenous students, with all of its Indigenous seniors graduating last year.

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  • Baltimore nonprofit aims to curb youth crime with citywide after-school programs

    November 01, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Elementary, middle, secondary, and alternative schools are partnering with the nonprofit Elev8 Baltimore to provide enrichment programs for students after school. The nonprofit’s aim is to keep students away from danger and crime by keeping them in school buildings, so the programs are tailored to student interests at each school.

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  • New South Dallas tech hub at ICDC offers face-to-face help with digital connections

    October 27, 2023 |

    Dallas Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    At the first Connected Dallas anchor site, South Dallas residents can get access to high-speed internet, technology education from trained professionals, help applying for local and federal benefits, and more. Since opening in August 2023, the site has served 47 residents so far.

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