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  • To what extent are CILs serving out-of-school youth from minority backgrounds?
    The transition from school to postsecondary life can be difficult. Research shows that youth with disabilities are less likely than their nondisabled peers to successfully make this transition. The disparities in outcomes are larger for youth with disabilities who are from racial and ethnic minority groups. Minority youth are also more likely to be disconnected. This Minority Youth and…
    April 2022
    Early Childhood Education, Social Environment
  • Challenges and solutions to public assistance system alignment: How trauma-informed programming unveiled barriers to aligning TANF and Medicaid
    Cross-sector collaboration and systems alignment can address social determinants of health, improve family well-being, and create a more equitable society. In attempts to align Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Medicaid to promote health through its trauma-informed program, The Building Wealth and Health Network (The Network) encountered three major challenges to meeting those…
    March 2021
    Medicaid, Social Environment, Systemic Determinants
  • Neighborhood stressors associated with biological stress in New Orleans kids
    Katherine Theall of the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine looked at the association of the three neighborhood-level stressors with biological outcomes reflected by telomere length and cortisol functioning. Telomeres are the region at the end of chromosomes that naturally shorten with age.  Shorter telomere lengths are associated with higher risks for…
    November 2016
    Maternal/Child Health, Adolescent Health, Social Environment
  • The power of youth in improving community conditions for health
    Though a common target for health-improving efforts, young people are not often regarded as agents of change for healthier communities. However, a growing number of successful health-supportive policy, environment, and systems-change efforts trace their impetus to youth involvement. Not only are youth proving to be catalysts and prolific communicators in social movements, but their involvement…
    September 2014
    Social Environment
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