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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.

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.

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.

How Residential Mobility and School Choice Challenge Assumptions of Neighborhood Place-Based Interventions

January 1, 2012 | Journal Article

This study specifically looked at cross-sectional data of teens aged 10 to 18 from Baltimore, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Richmond, Va. SAY sampling generated 1,723 telephone interviews with parents in the four cities.

Inner-City Residents in Rochester, N.Y., Receive Community-Based Care

April 9, 2006 | Program Results Report

Project SHARED developed a community-based project to enable chronically ill, low-income people in two inner-city neighborhoods to better manage their own health and to engage in behavior change that supported health.

Physicians' Outreach Project Expands Access to Specialty Care for Low-Income Patients in Tallahassee

January 31, 2004 | Program Results Report

The Capital Medical Society created the Physicians' Outreach Project, a collaborative, volunteer effort to extend the services of the society's We Care Network to three adjacent rural counties: Gadsden, Jefferson and Wakulla counties.

Study: Moving out of High-Poverty Area is Good for Your Health

April 12, 2004 | Program Results Report

Between 1994 and 1998, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) conducted and evaluated a controlled, random-assignment housing relocation experiment called Moving To Opportunity.

Elder Health Program in Baltimore Achieves Better Outcomes for Low-Income Elderly Through a Capitated System

January 2, 2003 | Program Results Report

The Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health studied Elder Health, a for-profit managed-care provider in Baltimore, Md., that serves individuals eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid (i.e., dually eligible).

Creating Safe Spaces for Children in Schools in Compton, Calif.

October 1, 2003 | Program Results Report

The Head Start program at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science planned and implemented a substance abuse prevention project that worked to change community norms and behaviors that put children at risk of substance abuse.

Low-Income New Yorkers See Barriers to Physical Fitness, Study by Researchers at the University of Texas School of Public Health Finds

June 5, 2007 | Program Results Report

The University of Texas examined the perceptions of NYC residents of low-income areas about their neighborhoods to determine factors that help or hinder them from increasing their physical activity.

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