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At-risk and vulnerable people

The Vulnerable Populations portfolio creates new opportunities for better health by investing in health where it starts -- in our homes, schools and jobs.

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We create new opportunities for better health by investing in health where it starts—in our homes, schools, and jobs.

Connecting With Care in Low-Income Boston Neighborhoods

November 19, 2012 | Program Results Report

The Connecting With Care project of the Alliance for Inclusion and Prevention demonstrated that it was economically feasible to bring full-time, mental-health clinicians to schools in the low-income Boston neighborhoods of Dorchester and Roxbury.

Healthy Men, Healthy Communities Initiative

August 30, 2012 | Program Results Report

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.

Out-of-School Males of Color

January 1, 2012 | Report

This roundtable provides additional content knowledge in framing the education and employment policies and practices for out-of-school males of color.

Education and Paths to Employment for Middle School Boys of Color

January 1, 2012 | Report

Male students of color face significant disparities in educational achievement in public schools in the United States, beginning at the earliest grades.

Education and Employment of High School Males of color

January 1, 2012 | 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.

Health for Boys and Young Men of color

January 1, 2012 | Report

This roundtable looked at the data on the health of adolescent (ages 11-19) young males of color, and discussed how their health outcomes are shaped by disadvantaged contexts and unequal opportunities.

Child First Conference

June 2, 2011 | Audio

Presentation from the 2011 Child First Conference.

Service Credit Banking

January 1, 2002 | Book

Susan Dentzer explores whether service credit banking--as demonstrated in the projects funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation--was a good idea that was badly timed or implemented, or whether it was simply a flawed idea.

Students Run LA

January 1, 2006 | Book

This article highlights one of the many smaller projects funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). Students Run LA gives at-risk students in Los Angeles the chance to compete in that city's marathon. It began as one teacher's inspiration ...

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