Lives and livelihoods are at stake in Philly’s surge of shootings. A state house candidate and public policy advocate urges Harrisburg to act now. | From: The Citizen (Read more.)
KITHS proporciona una despensa cultural para los inmigrantes del sudeste asiático. | From: Equally Informed Philly (Read more.)
KITHS provides a culturally affirming pantry for Southeast Asian immigrants. | From: Equally Informed Philly (Read more.)
Dozens of protesters from the activist group Put People First! PA marched in front of the Center City offices of health care providers and health insurers Saturday to call attention to what they describe as “health care profiteering” during a global pandemic.
Philadelphia is a major health care hub, and the organizers of the protest wanted to leverage the stage the city provides. | From WHYY (Read more.)
Philadelphia public school students and staff will be required to wear face masks when they go back to in-person classes in the fall.
New guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggested it’s safe for fully vaccinated students and teachers to go without masks indoors. However, School District of Philadelphia Superintendent William Hite said the district will keep its mask requirement, based on the CDC’s recommendation that students be kept at least three feet apart and that unvaccinated people keep wearing masks.
“Until that guidance changes, we will still be asking individuals to be in masks and subject to testing,” Hite said, referencing the district’s rapid COVID-19 tests, for which parents must fill out a consent form. Hite said the district will perform weekly testing for adults, as well as random tests on 20% of students every week. | From NBC10 (Read more.)
In addition to taking the lives of more than 3,700 Philadelphians since it first hit the city in March of 2020, COVID-19 exposed a host of other societal ills and sent the economy into a deep depression that’s affected everyone in some way, shape or form over the past year and three months.
At the very beginning of lockdown, crime rates dropped dramatically, but Philadelphia then saw a similar dramatic rise in gun violence that’s continued to this day.
As of July 12, 2021 the city has recorded 295 homicides, the majority of which are gun related. It is also a 35% increase from the same date a year prior.
In the process, the frequency of this devastating loss of life is scarring a generation of young people and pushing public mental health resources to its limits. | From AL DÍA (Read more.)
The former first lady — in collaboration with the Partnership for a Healthier America and Higher Ground, Michelle and Barack Obama’s production company — seeks to raise funds to distribute 1 million healthy meals to families in need across the U.S.
The effort is part of the Pass the Love w/ Waffles + Mochi campaign, and its next stop is Philly, Obama announced via Twitter on Tuesday. | From WHYY (Read more.)
Philadelphia is kicking off a new effort to help fight what it calls a silent killer among Black men in the city: high blood pressure. The city’s new public health campaign is called “What’s your Pressure?” and is geared toward Black men ages 25 to 55. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
In a recently published paper about improving cancer care on a national level, experts zeroed in on the “inequities in healthcare that exist across the entire cancer care continuum and are disproportionately affecting medically underserved populations who may encounter cultural, linguistic, economic, and other barriers to care.” According to the authors, these disparities exist for a variety of reasons: social determinants of health, provider implicit bias, insurance coverage, and lack of standardized care.
To help increase quality cancer care in historically underserved communities, the co-authors — one of whom was Evelyn González, senior director of community outreach at Fox Chase Cancer Center — developed a framework of strategies and recommendations for both addressing and decreasing cancer care disparities nationwide. | From Philadelphia Magazine (Read more.)
In April, Neighborhood Bike Works started a program called Bikes for Neighbors to help, giving away free bikes to essential workers and people who needed them.
Eight months into the initiative and with over 500 requests for bikes, 77 bikes have been given out.
Jessi West, Executive Director of Neighborhood Bike Works, said that the program was a solution to multiple problems created by the pandemic. | From: Green Philly (Read more.)
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