
Aug. 7, 2024 8:00 am
Cultivating Peace of Mind for a Peaceful Community
What is a healthy and safe community without peace of mind? And how does one find it when you’re unhoused and underserved? It’s Monday morning in Norristown. A young woman sits at the bus stop with her bags filled with her belongings, searching anxiously for a bathroom to no avail. Across the street, the […]

May 15, 2024 8:00 am
Healing Minds, Nurturing Futures: Philadelphia Schools Embrace Mental Health Partnerships
Philadelphia Schools take proactive steps to address mental health challenges among Black and Brown students by forging partnerships

Oct. 18, 2023 6:26 am
Educators, students, and parents turn out to improve lives
Lesson’s from Children First second Big Thing conference

Dec. 23, 2021 6:30 am
Youth mental health is a crisis. We need radical prevention
Timed with the release of a new report by the U.S. Surgeon General, two foundation executives call for out-of-the-box thinking.

Sep. 22, 2021 9:35 am
Nurses are leaving the profession. Health care leaders need to address the reasons
The long-term solution to the nursing shortage calls for systematic changes that value nurses and offer them a safe place to work, says guest columnist Rayna Latourneau.

Sep. 10, 2021 2:49 pm
20 years post-9/11, the links between Islamophobia and Muslim American suicide remain unexplored
The victim of Islamophobic violence and survivor of a suicide attempt, guest columnist Amelia Noor-Oshiro is the first self-identifying Muslim American to receive NIH funding to conduct grassroots mental health research within the American Muslim community.

Aug. 25, 2021 1:52 pm
New report calls for youth-centric approaches to policy
"How the Pandemic Response Has Failed Young People and What We Need to Thrive" was co-written and researched by three members of the Youth Action Board of Community Legal Services.

Aug. 18, 2021 3:04 pm
Kids wrestled with depression, eating disorders and other mental health issues amid the pandemic, research finds
Recent studies examining COVID-19's impact on mental health also find differences among groups of students such as high school athletes.

Jun. 29, 2021 9:35 am
Dennis and Lee Horton say their own grief and trauma helped them to help others
"Police are trained to pull a gun. We need people trained to deal with people in crisis. And we know it works because we’ve done it on the inside," say the brothers, who are Certified Peer Specialists and Wellness Recovery and Action Plan facilitators.

Jun. 28, 2021 2:15 pm
Life after COVID: How can people be so lonely yet so nervous about refilling their social calendars?
Neuroscience can offer insights into how social isolation and resocialization affect the brain, says guest columnist Kareem Clark.