This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It should come as no surprise that well-known police killings like Daunte Wright’s can lead to worse mental health for Black Americans specifically, but a new study provides new empirical evidence of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Raymond Riles arrived on Texas’s death row in 1976, the year President Gerald Ford lost his reelection bid and the first “Rocky” movie debuted in theaters. Riles had been sentenced…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nearly 80% of higher education faculty report helping students with mental health issues, and 90% of faculty believe those issues have gotten worse during the pandemic, a nationwide survey finds.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Community colleges are a critical access point to higher education in the United States. Last year, roughly 1,000 community colleges enrolled more than 5.5 million students. These schools are also…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. What began as a roving conversation about the role of happiness in policy among a group of visiting academics (which I was lucky to be a part of) in Bhutan…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At a 2017 event hosted by The Wellbeing Project (TWP), Gabriela Gandel, executive director of the social entrepreneur network Impact Hub, expressed the need to address dysfunction and high rates of burnout across…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Intergenerational shared sites are not a new concept in the United States. Messiah Lifeways, a residential community for older adults in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, opened more than 40 years ago with a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a cruel reality for more than 200 million girls and women globally, while 3 million girls in Africa are at risk of undergoing FGM every year. The World Health…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since George Floyd’s tragic death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer in May, entire fields have confronted — willingly or not — their track record on diversity, equity, and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One of the more intractable problems in mental health care is that nearly half of all those who would benefit from care don’t receive it. Multiple barriers seem to be…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. ith the arrival of spring, Platte Farm Open Space, located in the diverse, working-class neighborhood of Globeville in north Denver, comes alive with native grasses, pollinator gardens that attract bees…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Assisted living communities can improve the quality of life for people with dementia when they treat them as individuals and try to include everyone in activities, according to a new…