The park is part of the city’s Rebuild project, which intends to refurbish 72 of the city’s 400 parks, playgrounds, libraries, and recreation centers, with a focus on neighborhoods heavily impacted by gun violence. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
More than a week after the City of Philadelphia announced it would receive another 3,500 vials of monkeypox vaccine, city health officials said it would give up to $375,000 in grants to groups that could help increase the equitable distribution of the vaccines to residents. | From: NBC10/Telemundo62 (Read more.)
Some long COVID patients have had to get lung transplants. Additionally, patients with mild chronic lung diseases, such as asthma, have experienced worsened conditions after having COVID-19. | From: Kensington Voice (Read more.)
West Philadelphians concerned about the mental health effect of gun violence on their children are grateful for a new outpost that the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is opening in their neighborhood. But in a community forum Wednesday, some said they wanted providers to engage with their new neighbors outside the center as well. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
By now, most of us know what a community fridge is: a freestanding refrigerator stocked with food that anyone can take, anytime, no questions asked. Nowadays, Philly has a whole network of them. But at the start of the pandemic, as New Yorkers and Los Angelenos started installing them, Germantown was community fridge-less. | From: The Philadelphia Citizen (Read more.)
This is Corners to Connections, a violence interruption initiative based out of North Philadelphia’s Taylor Memorial Baptist Church. Rev. G. Lamar Stewart, senior pastor at the church and founder of the operation, huddled his volunteers and split them into two teams. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Morris wanted a different experience for her second pregnancy. She wanted to hire a Black doula to help her birth naturally, while teaching herself to feel empowered, as a Black woman, about her body and resiliency. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
This week, the Mayor’s Office of Youth Engagement has set out to gather teen input on education, public safety, entrepreneurship and health during PHL Youth Week. It’s an opportunity for gun violence prevention activists to try to elevate the voices of teens who are directly impacted by the crisis. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
The City of Philadelphia’s workforce is nearly 100% compliant with the workforce vaccination mandate for COVID-19. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Two years ago, Philadelphia stopped disconnecting household water service as a pandemic protection. As the pandemic moratorium ended, and shutoffs were set to resume, the city delayed to keep water flowing during the recent heat health emergency. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
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