Neukölln, Berlin, Germany
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A coalition of churches, synagogues, mosques, and cultural organizations located in the Inland Empire. Unfortunately, without any up-to-date number of members in this coalition.
For the org. there is a spiritual connection linking the desert landscapes and religious beliefs. Their primary focus is congregating more groups around environmental hazards in desert lands.
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The organization is looking for a “new dimension and depth” in the discussion about the environmental crisis. Engaging in different fields:
- alternative energy development,
- mining, recreation,
- military exercises,
- transportation corridors
- proposed national monuments.
Desert Stewardship Project
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Desert Stewardship Project is an interfaith coalition dedicated to protecting the deserts of California.
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The study specifically addresses low-income, minority populations, who are suffering the most from the U.S.'s incarceration "epidemic".
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Sara_NesheiwatThis program, as mentioned earlier is set in Tulane University in New Orleans yet has a lot of global outreach. This program's website has a map showing their direct partners all over the world on the front page. Partners include, Tulane University, RAND Gulf States Policy Institute, Louisiana State University,University of South Alabama, Louisiana Public Health Institute, Benadir University, Catholic Relief Services, dozens of colleges and programs in Africa such as the University of Zimbabwe as well as the Kinshasa School of Public Health, other partners includes UNICEF-Mali and others in Asia, such as Moi University and the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center. Needless to say these are just few of the many partners this program based out of Tulane has all over the world.
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Psychological first aid
Cognitive behavioral therapy
PTSD 10-20% among rescue workers
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It was harder to find this information, but from what I gathered, the concept of national health insurance first became a topic of discussion during the Truman administration. From 1958 to 1964, controversies rose and a bill was drafted, specifically by who is unknown, but the signing of the act was part of Johnson's Great Society. Though names are not listed, it is said that those who previously worked on the King-Anderson Bill drafted this current Medicaid policy and that Wilbur Cohen, Assistant Secretary for Legislation of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, really pushed for this Medicare bill.
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1. Narrative is a form in which experience is represented and recounted, in which events are presented as having a meaningful and coherent order, in which activities and events are described along with the experiences associated with them and the significance that lends them their sense for the persons involved.
2. our own responses themselves are culturally grounded, embedded in quite a different structure of aesthetic or emotional response than that of the members of society being described.
3. They were deeply committed to portraying a "subjunctive world", one in which healing was an open possibility, even if miracles were necessary.
4. Disease as represented in biomedicine is localized in the body, in discrete sites or physiological processes. The narratives of those who are subjects of suffering represents illness, by contrast, as present in a life.