April 19, 2013
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Program Result
Formerly incarcerated men, most of them Black, are drawing on the package of housing, employment and support services provided by Better Futures Minnesota in the Twin Cities to help turn their lives around. Some of the men tell their stories here.
April 19, 2013
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Program Result
Better Futures Minnesota provides an integrated package of housing, employment, health care, and community support to men with a history of substance abuse, mental illness, chronic unemployment, incarceration, and homelessness.
February 1, 2013
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Issue Brief
Policies and practices that support young men of color in their teen years can help put them on the path to lead healthy and productive lives. Young men of color face more obstacles in education, employment, and health than their white peers.
August 30, 2012
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Program Result
Grantmakers for Children, Youth, and Families developed a Healthy Men, Healthy Communities initiative to inform grantmaking organizations about issues facing boys and men of color and low-income communities.
April 10, 2012
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Program Result
Oral Health America, a Chicago-based organization that advocates improved dental care, launched a public education campaign to reduce the use of spit tobacco (both chewing tobacco and snuff).
April 1, 2012
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Journal Article
Policy-makers interested in containing health care costs are targeting regional variation in utilization, including the use of advanced imaging.
January 12, 2012
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Program Result
Advancing Measurement of Equity and Patient-Centered Care to Improve Health Care Quality was a targeted solicitation for proposals to expand understanding of how to make health care both more patient-centered and more equitable.
January 1, 2012
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Report
This roundtable provides additional content knowledge in framing the education and employment policies and practices for out-of-school males of color.
January 1, 2012
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Report
Male students of color face significant disparities in educational achievement in public schools in the United States, beginning at the earliest grades.
January 1, 2012
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Report
a summary of the notes and key themes that emerged during the roundtable discussion about the policy barriers and solutions to meeting the education and employment needs of young men of color.