The Early Detection, Intervention and Prevention of Psychosis in Adolescents and Young Adults (EDIPPP) initiative has gathered evidence to show the value of engaging communities toward preventing severe mental illness in young people. Hear about one young woman's journey.
Jessica Donze Black, director of the Kids' Safe and Healthful Foods Project, talks about why students need healthy foods in schools.
Mary Story, director of Healthy Eating Research, and Tracy Fox, president of Food, Nutrition and Policy Consultants, discuss why we need healthier beverage standards.
The RWJF Roadmaps to Health Prize honors outstanding community partnerships that are helping people live healthier lives. These communities are creating a culture of health in their backyards. They were selected in 2013 from more than 160 applicants for their innovative strategies.
In 2006, Terry Huang, a researcher at the National Institutes of Health, proposed a new approach to combating childhood obesity: architecture. VMDO Architects, in collaboration with the University of Virginia and University of Nebraska, redesigned a 1950s-era elementary school in rural Virginia to encourage healthy eating and physical activity among all students.
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June 4, 2008 | Video/Toolkit
Staff at Seton Family of Hospitals in Texas developed a risk assessment protocol, identifying populations at risk and using prevention tools such as alerts and patient-care rounding, which has enabled the staff to consistently meet its goal of just two falls per 1,000 patient days.
August 8, 2011 | Video/Story
Aligning Forces for Quality takes root in Humboldt County, Calif.
January 7, 2009 | Video/Story
How the Portland Identification and Early Referral program intervenes to prevent severe mental illness in teens and young adults.
June 4, 2008 | Toolkit/Video/Story
The goal of this intervention is to reduce the amount of staff time spent hunting for and gathering supplies and equipment and increase the amount of time spent at the bedside with patients
June 4, 2008 | Video/Story
Staff developed a welcome video called, “Your Stay at Kaiser: What You Need to Know,” for patients entering the hospital.
June 4, 2008 | Video
The goal of this section of the tooklit Transforming Care at the Bedside is to identify a unit to serve as the hospital's pilot for TCAB¿one that can learn from the process, be a model for other units hospitalwide and includes nurses who can become champions for quality improvement.
February 12, 2010 | Story/Audio
RWJF invites audiences interested in American elder care models to attend an informational webinar to learn more about Vulnerable Populations Portfolio grantee, the Green House Project.
November 18, 2009 | Video/Story
Green Houses provide an environment in which residents receive nursing support and clinical care without the care becoming the focus of their existence.