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  • Mental Health Cops Help Reweave Social Safety Net In San Antonio

    Jenny Gold

    August 19, 2014 |

    NPR |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, San Antonio, Texas

    Across the country, jails hold 10 times as many people with serious mental illness as state hospitals do, according to a recent report from the Treatment Advocacy Center. To deal with the problem, San Antonio and Bexar County have transformed their mental health system into a program considered a model for the rest of the nation - the effort has focused on an idea called "smart justice" — basically, diverting people with serious mental illness out of jail and into treatment instead.

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  • The Questions We Share

    David Bornstein

    August 07, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Evanston, Illinois

    Is there a way to frame conversations so that people actually listen to one another? Ask Big Questions fosters large group questions and discussions about social problems on university campuses to inspire young people.

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  • Teach the Teachers Well

    Suzanne Bouffard

    April 30, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Rates of problem behaviors and emotional issues among students are high - over 3 million elementary and secondary school students are suspended a year. To remedy the problem, a new program for educators delivers lessons on how to help students navigate their emotional lives.

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  • Who Will Heal the Doctors?

    David Bornstein

    October 02, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Bureaucracy in the health care system causes burnout among doctors. A new medical course, the Healer's Art, is being offered across the nation, which helps doctors reconnect to the humanity of their work and maintain their commitment for it.

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  • Medicine's Search for Meaning

    David Bornstein

    September 18, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Medicine is in crisis; doctors face early burnout. Medical education contributes: it creates doctors who don’t show emotion. But The Healer’s Art, a medical school course delivered in an unconventional manner, reminds doctors that they and their patients are above all, human.

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  • Inside Denmark's 'fixing rooms', where nurses watch as addicts inject in safety

    Daniel Boffey

    May 04, 2013 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Denmark, Copenhagen

    In Copenhagen's fixing room, drug addicts are able to take intravenous drugs through the supervision of nurses. The room provides a clean environment with sterile needles that can be disposed of. Since it opened, there were 36,000 injections, accounting for 350 syringes being used a day, and 1,000 regular attendees. “The philosophy is that we can't change people, people can change themselves and we can be there when they want to change."

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  • Teaching Entrepreneurship

    Sarah Lynch

    March 04, 2013 |

    Al-Fanar Media |

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    Response Location: Egypt, Cairo

    Teaching entrepreneurship is on the rise in Egypt. American University in Cairo launched the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program in 2010. More than 2,000 students have participated in training's, 40 educators have been trained in teaching the topic, and 400 youth presented ideas in business competitions.

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  • New for Aspiring Doctors, the People Skills Test

    Gardiner Harris

    July 10, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Roanoke, Virginia

    Miscommunication is the leading cause of medical errors, so medical schools in the U.S. are testing aspiring doctors' communication and team work abilities during admissions.

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