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News – AOC’s Among Us stream raises $200,000 for community support organizations

American congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez teamed up with Canadian member of parliament Jagmeet Singh on Friday for a five-hour Among Us livestream to raise funds for those facing food and housing insecurity during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic....

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News – Here’s how MLB gave back this Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving looks and feels different in 2020 -- a year that, for many reasons, we won’t forget. Let’s take a look at what teams, players and Major League Baseball’s Youth Academies have done this holiday season, coast to coast....

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News – Mental Health Service Providers Seek Free COVID Testing

Addiction treatment and mental health service providers wrote a letter on Monday to the Department of Health asking for the state to set up free rapid testing for COVID-19 at treatment centers across the state....

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Podcast – Episode 4: A True Harm Reduction Approach to the Overdose Epidemic

In this episode, we will discuss harm reduction approaches to people living with substance use disorders...

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Podcast – Episode 3: COVID, and the Decriminalization & De-Stigmatization of Substance Use

In this episode, we will discuss COVID-19 and what is necessary to decriminalize and de-stigmatize substance use disorder and public health concerns...

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News – ‘We Don’t Want to be Forgotten’: Recovery Providers in NYC Feel the Strain Amidst COVID-19 Stressors

Osiris Mercado was one of the lucky ones. He made it into the Phoenix House rehabilitation center just a week before they closed their doors to new clients in March. When the coronavirus first hit the city, no one, except staff, was allowed in and out of the drug and…...

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Podcast – Episode 2: COVID-19 and Understanding Violence

In this episode, we will discuss the intersectionality of COVID-19, Race and Gun Violence, and Community Engagement...

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Podcast – Episode 1: Freedom Summer 2020

In this episode, we will discuss conscious education and the intersection of education, race, how we see it with COVID-19, and how we see it as a public health issue within the black and brown communities...

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News – Volunteers pick trash from Flushing Bay Promenade on City of Water Day

More than 60 local residents joined Community Board 3 Saturday to clean up the Flushing Bay Promenade and keep trash from entering the polluted waterway....

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News – Queens organization raises $350,000 to help citywide food bank expand

The Foundation has donated $250,000 since the start of the COVID pandemic, and thanks to the Foundation’s outreach to its supporters, network, and donors, an additional $100,000 of funding was raised. The new funding will allow......

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