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Breaking Down Barriers Through Education
Students in Fermanagh Trust's Shared Education Programme. Photo: Fermanagh Trust ''That's a nice idea, but are you insane?" That was what Tony Gallagher, professor of education and pro-vice chancellor of Queen's University Belfast, commonly heard when he suggested in 2006 that predominantly Roman Catholic and…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Bringing Health Care Services to Rural South Africa
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Dr. Lungile Hobe treats a patient. Photo: UYDF[/caption] Half of South Africa's population live in rural areas, but only 12 per cent of doctors practice there. Dr. Lungile Hobe often accompanied her mother, a nurse, to the local hospital in rural…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Ombudsman for Children Praises Mayo Children’s Initiative
Source: The Mayo News
A researcher has hailed the ‘spectacular progress’ made by a Castlebar-based children’s project and said its work was a model for other countries to follow.“What’s going on here in Mayo is of international significance,” said Professor Howard Stevenson of the University of Lincoln. He was…
Resource type: News
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Suspensions more common for minority, disabled students
Source: California Watch
By Joanna LinRacial minorities and students with disabilities are suspended at substantially higher rates than their white and non-disabled peers, according to an analysis of discipline data from nearly 500 California school districts. Researchers said the disparities are a civil rights issue and cause for…
Resource type: News
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Chuck Feeney’s Contributions to Advance Health at UCSF and Worldwide
Source: UCSF
This video by The University of California San Francisco (UCSF), an Atlantic grantee, looks at Atlantic Founding Chairman Chuck Feeney's contributions to advance health at UCSF and worldwide. Feeney is credited as being a key visionary behind the creation of the UCSF Mission Bay campus,…
Resource type: Video
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A Healthy Start: Protecting Great Gains for Children in the Affordable Care Act
Source: The Huffington Post
By Marian Wright EdelmanPresident, Children's Defense FundSince our founding almost forty years ago, the Children’s Defense Fund has fought to ensure that all children in America receive the healthy start they need and deserve. Next week marks the second anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the…
Resource type: News
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March 6th Event: Privacy and Safety in the Digital Age
Source: The Constitution Project
Privacy and Safety in the Digital Age: Location Tracking and Fourth Amendment ConcernsA Panel Discussion On January 23rd, a unanimous Supreme Court held in United States v. Jones that when the police attach a GPS device to an individual's car and use it to…
Resource type: News
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Creating Excellence in Dementia Care: A Research Review for Ireland’s National Dementia Strategy
Source: The School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College, Dublin and The Irish Centre for Social Gerontology, NUIG
More people in Ireland have dementia than cancer or heart disease yet it has been a largely invisible and underfunded health issue, according to a new report by Suzanne Cahill and Maria Pierce from the School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College, Dublin;…
Resource type: Research Report
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Incidence of Dementia Greater Than Cancer and Heart Disease
RTÉ News broadcast a segment on the Atlantic-funded report "Creating Excellence in Dementia Care" on January 12, 2012. Visit the RTÉ News site or click the play button above to watch the full clip. Trinity Foundation is an Atlantic grantee.
Resource type: Video
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Warning Over Rise in Dementia
Source: Irish Times
By Ronan McGreeveyThe number of people with dementia in Ireland is expected to triple over the next 30 years and will be a “huge burden” on the state without a long-term strategy, the Minister for Health James Reilly has warned.Currently, an estimated 41,000 Irish people…
Resource type: News