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The Vulnerable Populations Portfolio—and our grantees—creates new opportunities for better health by investing in health where it starts—where we live, learn, work, and play.
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USA Today Profiles Violence Prevention as Urgent Health Priority
Violence affects the lives of far too many Americans, but increasingly we know what works to stop it. RWJF recently co-sponsored a special section of USA Today focused on prevention and ways to help those exposed to violence break the cycle and overcome its damaging health effects.
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Building Resilience
The Foundation has produced brief video interviews with leading experts in the fields of toxic stress, trauma and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and created an infographic that describes the prevalence and impact of ACEs.
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A Catalyst for Significant Social Change
In this video, Senior Adviser for Program Development Jane Isaacs Lowe illustrates how The Green House Project, an RWJF grantee, is changing the field of long-term care.
Grantee News
Announcing the Forward Promise Innovation Grantees
RWJF awards $5 Million to advance efforts improving health and success of young men of color. Ten grantees were selected to spread impact of programs that strengthen connections to education, employment, and good health.
Media Contacts
Christine Clayton
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation media@rwjf.org (609) 627-5937
About the Program
The Vulnerable Populations Portfolio creates new opportunities for better health by investing in health where it starts—in our homes, schools and jobs.
Our Grantees In the News
Forward Promise
July 22, 2013: "Young Men of Color, Breaking the School to Prison Pipeline" The Grio highlights RWJF's Forward Promise initiative and features two of the ten grantees.
Move Over Nursing Homes
NPR's All Things Considered looks at The Green House Project's revolutionary approach to long-term care.
Learn more about The Green House ProjectHealth Leads
June 10, 2013: "Social Services: Prescribing the Basics of Good Health" Rebecca Onie, Health Leads’ co-founder and CEO, is interviewed in Healthcare Financial Management Association about offering patients more than medicine.
Vulnerable Populations News Releases
- New Study Finds That Promoting Healthy Relationships Has Positive Impact on Middle School Students September 12, 2013
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Awards $5 Million to Advance Efforts Improving Health and Success of Young Men of Color July 17, 2013
- AARP Foundation and Weinberg Foundation Invest to Extend Green House Model to Low-Income Seniors July 11, 2013
What We're Reading
Vulnerable Populations Team Members: What we're saying
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Scaling Equals Cultural Transformation
Jane Lowe, senior adviser for program development, shares how we grow visionary solutions to scale to improve the health of vulnerable populations."We look for ideas that we believe are going to transform a field; that will create the impetus for significant social change."
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Early Trauma, Lasting Damage
Martha Davis, Institute for Safe Familes (ISF), and Kristin Schubert, RWJF, write about the significance of adverse childhood exerpiences (ACEs) and toxic stress in the Philadelphia Inquirer. A recent study on urban ACEs revealed early childhood traumas are particularly pervasive in Philadelphia.
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Trumping ACEs: Building Resilience and Better Health in Kids and Families Experiencing Trauma
Susan Promislo, senior communications officer, writes about adverse childhood experiences and RWJF’s ongoing efforts to to stabilize fragile families and put children on the path to healthy development.
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Help Our Youth Go From Failing to Fulfilling Their Dreams
In the Detroit Free Press, Tonya Allen, chief operating officer at the Skillman Foundation, and Maisha Simmons, program officer at the Foundation, shared their thoughts on the importance of investing in the futures of boys and young men of color.