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Trumping ACEs: Building Resilience and Better Health in Kids and Families Experiencing Trauma
June 19, 2013 | Culture of Health Post
An op-ed highlights a recent summit and ongoing efforts in Philadelphia to raise awareness about the negative impact of ACEs on health, education, and other outcomes.
Like Close to Two Millions Kids, New Sesame Street Character Has an Incarcerated Parent
June 13, 2013 | New Public Health Post
A White House “Champions of Change” event yesterday honored 12 men and women who spent their careers improving the lives of children who have a parent in prison. Sesame Street released a toolkit to be distributed to jails, schools and therapists.
Keeping Children Safe: Commissioner Bryan Samuels on Child Abuse Prevention Month
April 30, 2013 | New Public Health Post
Last year, more than 675,000 U.S. children were victims of maltreatment. Preventing abuse and neglect in the first place by giving families the support they need, when they need it, yields the best outcomes.
Improving Health by Combining Medicine and Law
February 28, 2013 | New Public Health Post
A new article published by the Association of American Medical Colleges highlights the important work of medical-legal partnerships. These efforts improve the health and well-being of low-income and other vulnerable populations by addressing unmet l ...
Health Equity: Updates from the Field
November 5, 2012 | New Public Health Post
A host of sessions focused on health equity at this year’s American Public Health Association meeting. Panel topics varied greatly, from the effects of health inequity on education outcomes to creative marketing strategies for reaching vulnerable po ...
Preventing Youth Violence: Updates from the Field
November 5, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Last week at the American Public Health Association (APHA) annual meeting, a number of presenters took on an important, but often overlooked topic in the public health world: violence. Violence is often primarily considered a criminal justice or pub ...
School-Based Health Centers: Impact Beyond the Clinic Walls
November 2, 2012 | New Public Health Post
The use of school-based health services has gained momentum and recognition across the United States as a unique tool in the fight to prevent poor outcomes in both health and education, especially among vulnerable populations. When last surveyed in ...
Hospital Partnerships to Cure Violence
November 1, 2012 | New Public Health Post
>>EDITOR'S NOTE: On 9/13/2012 CeaseFire changed its name to Cure Violence. Sheila Regan manages hospital partnerships for Cure Violence, formerly CeaseFire, an organization based in Chicago that has pioneered a public health approach to stopping sho ...
Health Happens Here: Q&A with Robert Ross, President of The California Endowment
October 30, 2012 | New Public Health Post
"Black men today are more likely to receive a GED in prison than graduate from college. One in three black men, and one in six Latino men, are projected to go to prison in their lifetimes. There is new hope--Sacramento is now responding to this cris ...
Tackling Teen Dating Violence Before it Begins
October 30, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Debbie Lee, senior vice president at Futures Without Violence and deputy director of Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships’ national program office, will speak Tuesday, October 30 about lessons learned from the Start Strong initiative at ...