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Rescuers take advantage of mental health services during tragic year

Emily Mieure Tom Hallberg

March 17, 2021 |

Jackson Hole News & Guide |

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Response Location: United States, Teton County, Wyoming

First responders who face devastating emergency response outcomes in Wyoming are finding support through the Teton Interagency Peer Support group. The group anonymously connects the first responders with trauma-informed counselors – so far, 135 people have utilized the service.

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Nigeria is using radio to provide support for SGBV survivors

Seun Durojaiye

March 13, 2021 |

International Centre for Investigative Reporting |

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Response Location: Nigeria

To combat high rates of sexual and gender-based violence in Nigeria, the Spotlight Initiative supports several organizations providing counseling and educational services to victims and to women and girls at risk of abuse. One program from the NEEM Foundation countered the pandemic shutdown by distributing transistor radios to continue its classes for women. Another, Save the Child Initiative, intervened in a child rape case that local authorities ignored, convincing national police to arrest the attacker and providing counseling to the victim and her mother.

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How NYC Is Stopping Textile Waste With Low-Tech Donation Bins

Hannah Chinn

February 24, 2021 |

Next City |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

RefashionNYC provides bins for commercial and residential buildings with more than 10 units, though the Department of Sanitation, to recycle clothes and textiles. When full, the contents are sorted by Housing Works, who either sells donations in their thrift shops, sends them to other nonprofit second-hand stores, or exports them to overseas markets. Clothing that is too damaged to be donated is sold to companies that reprocess them as rags or seat padding. 1,300 bins have been installed and over 12,200 tons of clothing and textiles have been diverted from landfills.

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Anti-human trafficking apps were meant to save lives. They're failing

Emily Ding Corinne Redfern

February 16, 2021 |

Wired |

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Response Location: Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur

Since its April 2018 founding in Malaysia, the Be My Protector app has enabled interventions in 120 cases of suspected human trafficking, sparked by anonymous reports that its app enables. In about a third of those cases, which mostly involved migrant workers in South and Southeast Asia, the victims were able to return to their homes, while others were offered counseling. But, like the more than 90 such apps available around the world, Be My Protector has struggled to make a big impact. Many such apps capitalize on a trendy subject without a clear focus on improving conditions and helping victims.

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‘I'm Stronger Now:' Support Centers For Trauma Survivors Expanding In Illinois

Patrick Smith

February 08, 2021 |

WBEZ |

Radio |

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Response Location: United States, Illinois

Since 2017, two publicly funded trauma recovery centers in Illinois have helped violent-crime survivors cope with the emotional fallout that can accompany a loved one's murder or surviving their own violent attack. Case managers help people get group and individual therapy. They can also line up financial aid to help people pay for food and rent, when their trauma interferes with their ability to make a living. The centers, based on a model developed in California as a way to foster public safety through healing communities, will expand by three more in the state in 2021.

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Next Step goes to the front lines of gun violence in Minneapolis, starting with the shooting victims

Maya Rao

January 30, 2021 |

Minneapolis Star Tribune |

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Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Next Step is a hospital-based violence intervention program based at Minneapolis' Hennepin County Medical Center that counsels gunshot victims to try to help lower the chances that they will be harmed again or seek to harm others. Focusing on young adults and their families, the program starts its work when a victim is hospitalized. The counseling and connections to support services can continue for months and even years.

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Outside/In: Everybody Knows Somebody

Laine Kaplan-Levenson

January 07, 2021 |

NPR |

Podcast |

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Response Location: United States

The story of the passage of the Violence Against Women Act starts with a young legal aide to Sen. Joe Biden who did not identify as a feminist and knew little about the issues, but whose methodical building of a coalition and a set of arguments led to the historic passage of the law in 1994. VAWA was the first U.S. federal law to address comprehensively the ancient problem of gender-based violence. A key provision, authorizing federal civil lawsuits by victims, helped many women for six years until the Supreme Court struck it down. The law's other effects, still ongoing, include funding victim-aid groups.

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Aid groups aim to bring health care to migrants on way to US

Julie Watson

December 28, 2020 |

Associated Press |

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Response Location: Mexico, Matamoros

The Global Response Management is a humanitarian nonprofit led by U.S. military veterans and staffed by U.S. volunteers and "paid asylum seekers who were medical professionals in their homelands" that offers medical help to migrants at two clinics in Matamoros, Mexico – including, most recently, COVID-19 antibody tests. Although the organization's future is uncertain, it is not alone in its efforts, and it and other humanitarian aid organizations plan to continue collecting health data.

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After Abusive Ex Left Her for Dead with Stabbing, a Trauma Center Helped Ohio Woman Reclaim Her Life

Jeff Truesdell

December 24, 2020 |

People |

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Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

A network of trauma recovery centers nationwide helps victims of violence and survivors of murder victims by focusing on their emotional, medical, and financial needs first. What started as a single healing center run by San Francisco's health department in 2001 went statewide in California in 2013 and since then has expanded to 35 centers in multiple states, including at Cleveland's Circle Health Services. The concept, promoted by California-based Alliance for Safety and Justice, stands in contrast with policies that respond primarily to victimization with punishment of those who committed crimes.

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How Portland Protesters Keep Each Other Safe

Isabella Garcia

December 09, 2020 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

Behind the nightly protests against racism and police brutality on Portland's streets for more than five months stands a network of street medics and mutual aid groups dedicated to equipping and protecting protesters, and treating their injuries after clashes with police. Portland's already-vibrant street medic community responded to the policing protests with emergency medical care. Their work, plus that of other mutual aid groups, has taken on an added dimension during the pandemic, with masks and hand sanitizer added to the list of supplies.

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