Children, teachers, and staff spend a significant amount of time in their school buildings – 1,000 hours a year, actually. While school is a place of learning and growth, it can also be an opportunity to foster positive mental health habits....
Knowing that trauma creates a barrier to the development of Pittsburgh’s Black communities, Neighborhood Resilience Project believes Trauma Informed Community Development framework can establish and promote resilient, healing, and healthy communities so that people can be healthy enough to sustain opportunity and realize their potential....
Substance abuse disorder is at an all-time high on college campuses. Pennsylvania is among the 10 states with the largest number of overdose rates and 37% of college students admit to regularly using an illegal drug or abusing alcohol. With as many as 19.3 million...
“Stigma used to be one of our biggest issues,” explained Julius Boatwright, Founding CEO of Steel Smiling. “We still have a stigma issue, but we’ve made great progress in the past few years. It’s a topic of rappers and TikTok videos. It’s in our community...
There is a crisis of violence hiding within the rural beauty of Lawrence County. Related to the selling, transporting, or importing illegal drugs, drug trafficking is the main source for more than 300,000 individuals in Pennsylvania with a substance use disorder. Despite the number of...