The Ford Police Athletic League Center on Snyder Avenue is, for the first time, serving lunch to its 27 camp kids this summer, thanks to food from Philabundance, the hunger-relief agency. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)
Collaborative program aims to lower childhood obesity rates, stress and more with time outdoors. | From: Green Philly (Read more.)
A new report released Wednesday highlights some initial victories from the first eight months of Philadelphia’s plan to fight the opioid epidemic. Mayor Kenney and treatment advocates are eager for more progress. | From: NBC10 (Read more.)
Lesbian, gay and bisexual adults are more than twice as likely as their non-identifying peers to experience a mental-health condition, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. | From: Philadelphia Gay News (Read more.)
Learn with us what a PBM manager means, how drug pricing works and how and why Philadelphia, the poorest of the big cities in the USA, is getting poor thanks to the free market. | From: DosPuntos (Read more.)
High levels of lead affect children’s health and development throughout Philadelphia. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
Philadelphia Warehousing & Cold Storage has for decades stored and distributed U.S. Department of Agriculture food for Philadelphia-area school lunches. It has done the same for USDA food for the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) — excess product from farmers given to low-income Americans. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)
The Pew Charitable Trusts’ 2019 state of the city report showed that while Philadelphia’s population has been rising steadily for more than a decade, the growth has been mainly concentrated in Center City. | From: CityWide Stories (Read more.)
Certain dental procedures are not covered by Medicaid because they are not considered medically necessary. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
“Heard” features stories from people who’ve lived on the street. | From: Billy Penn (Read more.)
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