The Vulnerable Populations portfolio creates new opportunities for better health by investing in health where it starts -- in our homes, schools and jobs.
At-risk and vulnerable people
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Pipeline, Profession & Practice: Community-Based Dental Education
August 27, 2013 | Program Results Report
RWJF's Dental Pipeline Program helped dental schools increase access to dental care for underserved populations through expanded community-based education and recruitment of underrepresented minority and low-income students.
Growing Experience Corps
January 25, 2013 | Program Results Report
Experience Corps engages older volunteers to tutor - with a focus on reading - and mentor low-income kindergarten through third-grade students. It expanded and became an independent nonprofit organization.
Kids Kicking Cancer
January 1, 2012 | Toolkit
The mission of Kids Kicking Cancer is to ease the pain of very sick children while empowering them to heal physically, spiritually and emotionally. Their goal is to create a replicable template for to children's hospitals and communities throughout the world linking children with support from caring, well trained and motivated professionals and volunteers.
Helping Mothers and Children with a Families Center in Washington, D.C.
March 24, 2010 | Program Results Report
The Developing Families Center in Washington, D.C., provides health and social support services to young women and their families in the city's low-income, Black neighborhoods.
Shaniqua Ballard's Story
March 24, 2010 | Program Results Report
Shaniqua Ballard was living without much hope in a shelter for pregnant women, with little money and no health insurance, until she discovered the Developing Families Center, where she received obstetric and well-woman care, and enrolled her children in the child development program.
Raising the Flag for Community Health Workers
January 26, 2010 | Program Results Report
From 2006 to 2009, staff members at the Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, worked to raise the profile and influence of community health workers in the health care system and among policy-makers.
Spatial Accessibility to Providers and Vaccination Compliance Among Children with Medicaid
December 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Children in low-income families living far from an immunization provider can miss basic vaccinations because parents lack their own transportation. This study examined how the availability of immunization providers affected vaccination rates among low-income children in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. Project Organizes Elders in Community Activism
May 31, 2009 | Program Results Report
On a sunny day in April with cherry blossoms in full bloom, Mark Andersen walks the streets of one of the poorest, most troubled neighborhoods in Washington.
Washington Hospital Opens Asthma Clinic that Reduces Emergency Department Visits, Improves Care
December 1, 2006 | Program Results Report
Children's National Medical Center implemented an emergency department-based demonstration project to improve the care of children with asthma. The main focus was developing a clinic for repeat patients and their parents.
Multi-State "Best Friends" Program Addresses Risky Behaviors Among Teenage Girls
May 13, 2005 | Program Results Report
The Best Friends Foundation developed and implemented a youth development program for girls in grades 6 to 12 with the message that they should wait until marriage to begin sexual relations and abstain from drinking, smoking and using illegal drugs.