Mental Health Awareness Month offers an opportunity to reflect on the importance of our health and well-being—including for the littlest amongst us…
Education pays. That truth underlies the role education plays in addressing poverty, and is part of why education has been acknowledged as a …
As the youth behavioral health crisis has grown in the past several years, members of PolicyLab’s Behavioral Health portfolio have continued to think…
As physicians who take care of young people with substance use disorders, we recognize the significance of harm reduction approaches in helping…
The field of social care integration, which refers to the study and implementation of clinically based programs to address the social needs of…
2023 was the hottest year on record and 2024 is predicted to rank among the top five warmest years. Extreme heat at this scale can be a danger to not…
Adolescence–the years between about 10 to about 25–is an essential time to help young people proactively build positive mental health and well-being…
There are 16.9 million women, girls and all other people who experience a menstrual cycle in the United States living in poverty, many of whom are…
March marks the celebration of National Reading Month! At PolicyLab and Reach Out and Read Greater Philadelphia (RORGP), we champion the role of…
A Google image search for “eating disorders” will return countless photos of young girls and women staring miserably at a plate or at the number on a…
Every year more than 400 children in the U.S. get a heart transplant. While science has advanced to the point that most of these children will have a…
We know that a person’s well-being depends on more than biological factors that can be measured by an x-ray or stopped by an antibiotic. It also…
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