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Jul 28, 2022
Community Health Needs Assessment Highlights Importance of Addressing Mental Health and Community Violence
When asked recently about the most pressing unmet health needs in their community, people across southeastern Pennsylvania identified priorities…
Jul 21, 2022
One Size Doesn’t Fit All: The Need to Improve Eating Disorder Assessment Tools
Eating disorders are serious psychiatric illnesses associated with high morbidity, mortality and psychosocial impairment. They can affect anyone…
Jul 06, 2022
Supporting Early Literacy for Babies and Toddlers in Military Families With Recent Federal Action in 200 Words
When caregivers read aloud with their children in the earliest years, it helps stimulate healthy brain development and form the safe, stable,…
Jul 05, 2022
New Federal Efforts to Protect LGBTQI+ Youth Health in 200 Words
Transgender and gender-diverse youth often face discrimination and barriers in accessing health care, which can lead to significant harmful mental…
Jun 28, 2022
A New Framework for Measuring Racial Equity in Policy
Recent major events, including the COVID-19 pandemic (with its disproportionate effect on communities of color) and high-profile incidents of racial…
Jun 16, 2022
Q&A: Enhancing HIV Research with Trans Youth Involvement
Pride Month cannot be mentioned without discussing the Stonewall Uprising, a movement that was largely led by transgender women of color such as then…
Jun 09, 2022
Prioritizing a Participatory, Provider-centered Approach in Supporting Helping Professionals: Lessons Learned
As a young therapist, the more interventions I was trained to use, the more overwhelmed I felt about delivering them. While I was learning the ins…
Jun 06, 2022
Disparities in Autism Screening and Well-Child Care Persisted During the Pandemic, but Novel Solutions to Promote Equity Exist
We are just beginning to understand the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on children over the last two years. Although children generally had lower…
May 25, 2022
Learning From Colorado’s Program to Provide All Youth With Behavioral Health Services
As policy-oriented research professionals who work with children and adolescents, we took some time during Mental Health Awareness Month to reflect…
May 24, 2022
How Can We Support Adolescents Amid Pandemic Spikes in Suicide Risk?
During the 2021-22 school year, children and adolescents regained some sense of normalcy as in-person learning and extracurricular activities resumed…
May 23, 2022
The 988 Lifeline: An Opportunity to Address the Pediatric Mental Health Crisis
The number of children suffering from mental health conditions has drastically increased over the past decade. Many of these children experience…
May 19, 2022
COVID-19 Outlook: Taking Stock of a Brisk Spring Resurgence
When our COVID-Lab team last checked in on April 22, we noted that some parts of the country were beginning to experience a new wave of COVID-19…
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