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PHA: Tech Community Building Product-Oriented Africans

Glorious Olajire

March 29, 2024 |

African Change Stories |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Kwara

Product Hub Africa (PHA) empowers people interested in tech by providing education, support, professional network connections, mentorship and community to help people blossom in the tech industry. PHA has partnerships with local secondary schools where they mentor youth directly. Outside of their school partnerships, PHA has 5,000 members with plans to continue expanding.

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Birmingham violence prevention initiative is 'putting people in positions to win'

Alaina Bookman

March 27, 2024 |

AL.com (Alabama Media Group) |

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Response Location: United States, Birmingham, Alabama

The Surge Project and EmpowerED Birmingham uplift local youth by providing mentorships, tutoring, healthcare resources, workforce development programs and educational opportunities in various fields. In the program's 2023 pilot partnership with the National Training Institute for Healthcare technicians, 32 of the 40 participants graduated with a phlebotomy or EKG certification, and 19 of them were local high school students.

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How a renter education course could lower barriers to housing

Katie Ellington Serrao

March 26, 2024 |

Richland Source |

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Response Location: United States, Wood County, Wisconsin

The Rent Smart renter’s education program helps people who face barriers to finding housing gain the necessary skills and knowledge to have a successful renting experience. The program teaches participants their rights and responsibilities as a tenant and in a six-month follow-up survey, 92% of participants said they found safer, more affordable, better-quality housing after finishing the program.

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Make School Food Great Again

Courtney Duchene Lauren McCutcheon

March 26, 2024 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Red Rabbit provides nutritious, culturally diverse lunches to students at two local schools. The program promotes cross-cultural exchange among students by exposing them to different dishes from various cultures while ensuring they’re getting healthy meals that hit all the major food groups, as most students get the majority of their meals at school.

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Solving chronic absenteeism is 'a people business'

Mariah Thomas

March 20, 2024 |

Ashland Source |

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Response Location: United States, Ashland, Ohio

After chronic absenteeism rates spiked during the pandemic, staff and administrators in Ashland CIty Schools emphasized building strong relationships with students and their families, making it easier to intervene in cases of significant absences. School leaders say it’s part of a strategy that has helped chronic absenteeism rates drop by roughly 14 percent year over year.

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Attendance tracking program helps combat chronic absenteeism

Mariah Thomas

March 19, 2024 |

Ashland Source |

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Response Location: United States, Ontario, Ohio

A specialized software called AttendanceK12 helps school secretaries, attendance counselors, and administrators more easily track student absences so they can intervene with families sooner, even offering options to automatically send parents an email when students reach a certain threshold of missed school hours. School leaders consider the technology an important element of a strategy that has helped reduce chronic absenteeism rates.

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‘It's been such a gift for me.' Apps help schools and families overcome language barriers

Yesenia Robles

March 13, 2024 |

Chalkbeat |

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Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

The ReachWell app helps break down language barriers by allowing teachers to text in English and parents to receive messages in their own language. Translation apps like ReachWell allow parents to be more engaged in their child’s education. The app is currently used in several school districts and is also beginning to partner with emergency service agencies to provide alerts in other languages besides English.

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Enrollment in tribal language courses grows in Oklahoma as tribes aim to increase fluency

Nuria Martinez-Keel

March 11, 2024 |

Oklahoma Voice |

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Response Location: United States, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

In an effort to increase language fluency and preserve the Indigenous culture, public schools in Oklahoma are offering Indigenous language programs to teach a variety of languages, like Cherokee and Choctaw, to interested students. In the 2022-2023 school year, 3,314 students from elementary through high school participated in an Indigenous language program.

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English learners stopped coming to class during the pandemic. One group is tackling the problem by helping their parents

Ariel Gilreath

March 11, 2024 |

The Hechinger Report |

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Response Location: United States, Charlotte, North Carolina

ourBRIDGE for Kids is a school-based program that helps English language learners improve their language skills. Since the pandemic increased rates of chronic absenteeism among English language learners, ourBridge shifted its focus to also provide family services to provide comprehensive support, like secure housing and grocery delivery, that helps keep youth in school.

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'Happier families, happier students': How Denver's community hubs are helping migrants

Melanie Asmar

March 11, 2024 |

Chalkbeat Colorado |

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Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

Denver Public Schools’ Community Hubs provide wide-ranging support for students and their families, from language classes and GED programs for parents learning English to food pantries, financial education courses, and mobile medical appointments. The hubs have served more than 4,000 families since launching in 2022, with roughly 600 migrant families being served this year.

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