An evaluation of First Place for Youth found that youth involvement has led to positive in-program outcomes for youth in housing, education, employment and healthy living.
RWJF Grantees & team members participated in this years TEDMED including Gary Slutkin, Executive Director of Cure Violence.
"Improving Access to Children's Mental Health Care: Lessons from a Study of Eleven States" - a new report from the Center for Health and Health Care Services - exposes barriers and opportunities for children's mental health under expansion of the Affordable Care Act.
This policy brief highlights key challenges, recommendations, and ideas for action to improve health, education, and employment outcomes for young men of color.
The Vulnerable Populations Portfolio creates new opportunities for better health by investing in health where it starts—in our homes, schools and jobs.
Young people require support from their families, schools, communities, and society as they move toward becoming healthy and productive adults. This is especially true for middle school- and high school-aged boys and young men, many of whom encounter barriers that make the path to adulthood especially challenging.
More than 1,200 proposals were submitted to our recent Call for Proposals. Our approach to this process has been informed by research and the more than 300 submissions that we received from the Call for Ideas we hosted last year.
Learn more"The options for our young men of color have been too limited for too long." In this interview with the NewPublicHealth Blog, Maisha Simmons, program officer, discusses why the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation launched the Forward Promise initiative.
"It’s in our nation’s schools where our young men start to really fall behind." This Washington Post article, authored by Maisha Simmons, highlights the importance of supporting young men of color.
Health starts—and is sustained—where we live, learn, work, and play.
Over the course of four years, RWJF undertook an iterative research and message development process informed by both traditional and nontraditional research techniques. This work has helped us communicate more effectively, and we believe in sharing this information with others. In A New Way to Talk About the Social Determinants of Health, we share a way to create more compelling, effective, and persuasive messages that resonate across the political spectrum.
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In April, we hosted a discussion with prominent health care leaders to explore solutions to address patients' social needs. Participants posed ways to connect patients to needed resources in the community that can improve their health. They also discussed and debated the business case for physicians, clinics, and hospitals to bridge the gap in treating medical and social needs.
Our grantee Health Leads represented one solution that is effectively integrating patients' social needs into health care delivery.
View the webinar presentation and forum discussion
Read results from a national survey of physicans
Dr. Jack Shonkoff, director of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, discusses how adversity and stress can affect a child's biology.
NPR reports on a program at the Children's Hospital in Boston aimed at helping reduce the high number of asthmatic kids from low-income neighborhoods by focusing on their households.
Education Week focuses on how mounting evidence from fields like neuroscience and cognitive psychology shows that an academically challenging yet supportive environment boosts both children's learning and coping abilities.
Education Week focuses on the growing shift of schools to move away from zero-tolerance approach to discipline.