Archive for the Youth Category

New Reports Highlight Potential Policy Solutions to Connecticut Achievement Gap

admin on 01 23, 2011 | 3 Comments

New Reports Highlight Potential Policy Solutions to Connecticut Achievement Gap

Executive Summary: Recent reports released over the past few months focus on the educational system in Connecticut, highlighting challenges facing the state with the largest achievement gap in the nat

Read More

GPS “Mobile Mappers,” Surveys Document Health Equity Issues in New Haven

Mark on 11 2, 2009 | No Comments

GPS

Orange Teams Launch City Health Effort A major initiative to promote chronic disease prevention by focusing on the three risk factors which play a role in more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths -

Read More

Data-Driven Response to School Violence in Chicago

Mark on 10 6, 2009 | No Comments

Reporting in today's New York Times discusses one possible approach to reducing violence among the school-age population: a family-centered program of interventions.  Similar programs, like the Stree

Read More