This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With birthday celebrations being downsized, religious services moving back online and indoor playdates getting canceled, millions of Americans are having fewer social interactions because of persistently high case numbers and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Centuries of systemic racism and everyday discrimination in the U.S. have left a major mental health burden on African American communities, and the past few years have dealt especially heavy…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unimaginable loss, grief, trauma, and isolation at a global scale — challenging our collective mental health and well-being. Schools across the globe were shuttered for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Food is a powerful part of community and medicine. It has the potential to build connections, elicit nostalgia, spark joy, mark celebration, and promote healing. It also plays a role…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As children make their way back into physical classrooms after an unprecedented year of virtual education, parents and educators must ask a crucial question: What can be done to help…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Rural hospitals that were acquired in mergers from 2009 to 2016 were more likely than their independent peers to shutter their maternal, neonatal and surgical services, and more likely to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As students across the country wrestled with pandemic stress last winter, sophomore Nathaniel Martinez logged on to a virtual retreat. Forty mostly Black and Latino teens in Chicago were getting…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For many young people, going back to school has not been easy — and it is happening at a time when rates of depression, anxiety and substance abuse have risen…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While 78% of teachers feel that it is part of their job to “help students develop strong social and emotional skills” and nearly 92% feel that the teaching of social-emotional…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. CUMAC’s two-story facility in Northern New Jersey has the look and feel of a standard food bank, with a warehouse, a handful of trucks, a client-choice pantry, and even a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When 5-year-old Avarian Delray met his teacher on the first day of kindergarten this fall, his grandmother Sharon Larson knew she wouldn’t have to worry about him. “He looked at…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Venus Moore had been released from the California psychiatric hospital where she was confined for years. But she was far from free. The pandemic was raging, and her sister could…