The gang-intervention heroes at Homeboy Industries have just won the 2020 Hilton Humanitarian Prize, and will receive $2.5 million in unrestricted funding.
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When this Kansas community welcomed the residents of a new women's recovery center, the residents were sure to repay the kindness tenfold.
Despite doctors giving him a grim prognosis following his accident, this guy is now rolling himself across the United States to continue proving them wrong.
After years in prison for drug problems, Russell Phillips has overcome addiction—and his ‘Light in the Shadows' group helps others understand addicts.
Growing Change turns abandoned prisons into sustainable farms to give work to at-risk youth and wounded veterans in North Carolina.
An innocent man doing time in prison is now clerking for a federal court after a fellow inmate told him to "stop playing basketball" and start learning law.
If you're recovering from addiction or substance abuse, boredom can be an especially dangerous sensation – which is why you may want to do your best to avoid it.
This new study shows that CBD oil could be an exceptional new tool for recovering drug users to kick opioid addiction for good.
Enjoy a sneak peek of the new Nat Geo series about the high jinx of rescued chimp in their Louisiana Chimp Haven sanctuary—Meet The Chimps
Last June, Dr. Jane Goodall, 79, traveled into the jungle to release one of the chimpanzees whose life was saved by experts at her Jane Goodall Institute in the Republic of Congo. Named Wounda, the chimpanzee was near death until it was welcomed as one of 160 animals living at the Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center.
A UC Berkeley study used empathy training among parole and probation officers to reduce recidivism and reoffending by 13 percent.
investing $500 for CBT therapy, plus a $200 cash gift, helped troubled youth in Liberia reduce their crime and violence by 50%.
A woman paid back $200 she stole from a bar 15 years ago while bartending because "it was wrong and I regret it."
A Georgia man who served ten years for manufacturing cocaine is being credited with saving a 15-month-old baby he found alongside a highway. Bryant Collins, an auto repair man who says he has been free and clean for five years, spotted the girl crawling alongside a Madison County highway, east of Atlanta.
After years of smoking crack with her mother, shooting heroin and living on the streets, a 29-year-old woman completed an incredible journey this week graduating with honors from a nursing degree program.
In saving a life, Pierre Johnson may also have transformed his own. Locked up in a Minnesota prison over the past year for selling cocaine, Johnson was stunned to learn this week that he is among 22 Americans receiving the Carnegie Hero award for risking his life to save a 91-year-old neighbor woman from a burning house in Brooklyn Park.
Owners of an Asian market in Nashville were stunned last week when a man came into their shop insisting they take an envelope. When they finally opened it they found $400 cash and a letter of apology from a thief who had once robbed their store. Once a drug addict, and now sober, he wants to make amends with those he'd hurt.
Something strange is happening at Beaumont Juvenile Correctional Center. Residents are so eager to get into a Russian literature class led by the University of Virginia that prison officials use it as a reward. The youths are clamoring to read thick books like War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, a moral thinker and non-violent pacifist who was said to have had a profound impact on Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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