Collaboration between a San Antonio nonprofit and the Metropolitan Health District is bringing fresh produce to convenience stores in "food desert" neighborhoods. The challenges of public health ...

A Chicago-based program that works with high risk youth might be coming to the Quad Cities. “Youth Advocate programs” focuses on community-based care to keep young people from going in and out of jail ...

The authors developed a model to identify participants in a home- and community-based services program who are at highest risk for long-term nursing home placement. Several states offer publicly ...

At its heart, a place-based approach is built on a simple principle: The people who live closest to a problem are also ...

A few years ago, while trying to help a sexual assault victim in St. Paul, Alaska, Kristie Traver, 46, found herself in an awful position. The victim needed a forensic exam — all the intrusive, ...

In addition to efforts from state and federal lawmakers, schools and communities have a critical role to play in addressing school gun violence through prevention and intervention approaches. Only in ...

BOSTON (CBS) - Talking about pain in your life can be a powerful healer and it's the idea behind a community-based program addressing mental health and trauma. "Can We Talk" is also helping those ...

Leaders around the nation should prioritize community-based violence intervention programs to reduce gun violence and violent crime more broadly. Only in America: The Front Lines of the Gun Violence ...

Prior to COVID, longtime friends and Mankato residents Rose Jensen and Breanna Gehring would spend their weekdays doing light assembly work at Mankato Rehabilitation Center Incorporated, or MRCI — ...