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From Aid to Action: How We’re Tackling Food Insecurity in At-Risk Communities

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, food insecurity surged to unprecedented levels, disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations in underserved areas known as food deserts. These regions, characterized by limited access…

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988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: Transforming Mental Health Support Nationwide

Mental health crises affect millions of Americans each year, with many individuals unsure where to turn for help. The launch of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline in July 2022…

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Community Power is Key in Addressing Mental Health Equity

As health equity advocates work to address the inequalities laid bare by COVID-19, new community-driven initiatives around the country are bringing a racial and social justice approach to mental health and crisis intervention.

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COVID-19 and Social Justice: The ‘Upstream’ Determinants of Health

With significant work by racial and social justice advocates, the toll of the pandemic has become part of a call to address the ways that the structural problems in society we know so well—wealth inequality, broken education systems, gender and racial discrimination and more—lead to large disparities in public health.

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Transforming Behavioral Health Crisis Services in the US and the Promise of the Marcus Alert System

In the past two years, COVID-19 and demands for police reform have both seen rapidly increasing calls for better tools to address behavioral health crises and their severe, often inequitable impacts.

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Anti-Asian Hate Crimes: How Recent Violence Shows the Unfortunate Truth of Systemic Racism in America

The recent course of violence and hate against Asian Americans has once again laid bare the ways America actively maintains its systemic racism.

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