Analysis: ‘Willful Defiance’ School Suspensions Have Health Impacts
We are re-posting an April 29, 2014 Reportingonhealth.org blog by Celia Harris. In the 2012-13 school year, almost 260,000 student suspensions in California public schools — more than 40 percent of the...
View ArticleIt’s Time for a Feminine Perspective
Last year I wrote a blog about the stress response, explaining how chronically stimulating the fight-or-flight response to stress can have a host of impacts on health. But there’s another, less well...
View ArticleSaving New Yorkers Money by Turning on the TAP for Learning
Today’s guest blog post is written by Soffiyah Elijah, Executive Director of the Correctional Association of New York. Currently, there is a ban in New York State on incarcerated people receiving...
View ArticleEducation is a human right: Opportunity to follow international law
Today’s guest blog post is written by Fred Patrick, Director on Center on Sentencing and Corrections, Vera Institute of Justice. International laws declare education to be an inherent human right. The...
View ArticleCollege Education in Prison: Why it’s a Smart Choice for Everyone
Today’s guest blog post is written by by Marsha Weissman, Executive Director of Center for Community Alternatives and Sandy Lane, Professor of Public Health and Anthropology, Syracuse University “In...
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Public Health and Criminal Justice: Shared Root Causes
Today’s guest blog is by Jasmine D. Graves MPH, Special Assistant, Office of the Commissioner, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene As the public health community focuses on the root...
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Turning on the TAP: How Returning Access to Tuition Assistance for...
Graphic illustrations by Rosten Woo. http://rostenwoo.biz/ Today, Human Impact Partners, the Education from the Inside Out Coalition, and our partners are excited to release a report that examines an...
View ArticleHelping Communities Break The Cycle And Regain Their Power
Today’s guest blog post is by Ronald Day, Associate Vice President of the David Rothenberg Center for Public Policy (DRCPP), The Fortune Society. It was originally published by fortunesociety.org. I...
View ArticleWhat Happens to a Dream Deferred?
This week’s blog is a repost by Rachel Davis of Prevention Institute. She links efforts to prevent injury and death due to violence to many of the policy issues that we research at HIP, including...
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Education: the Key to Health and Success for Foster Youth
This week’s post is written by HIP’s Social Media, Research, and Data Collection Summer Intern, Carlene Ervin. She is a sophomore at Yale University and a resident of Oakland, CA. Since I was five, my...
View ArticleAccommodating Trauma: Intended & Unintended Effects of an Unusual Legal Strategy
A group of high school students and teachers in Compton, California are taking their school district to court, claiming their schools are legally required to accommodate the ways that chronic poverty,...
View ArticleExpanding Access to Preschool Could Improve Health and Equity in Cincinnati,...
One of my favorite things about doing HIAs and other projects at Human Impact Partners is the unexpected “Aha!” moments that occur, when we find something in the research that surprises us. Today,...
View ArticleSaving New Yorkers Money by Turning on the TAP for Learning
| By Soffiyah Elijah | Today’s guest blog post is written by Soffiyah Elijah, Executive Director of the Correctional Association of New York. Currently, there is a ban in New York State on...
View ArticleEducation is a human right: Opportunity to follow international law
| By Fred Patrick | Today’s guest blog post is written by Fred Patrick, Director on Center on Sentencing and Corrections, Vera Institute of Justice. International laws declare education to be an...
View ArticleCollege Education in Prison: Why it’s a Smart Choice for Everyone
| By Marsha Weissman | Today’s guest blog post is written by by Marsha Weissman, Executive Director of Center for Community Alternatives and Sandy Lane, Professor of Public Health and Anthropology,...
View ArticlePublic Health and Criminal Justice: Shared Root Causes
| By Jasmine D. Graves | Today’s guest blog is by Jasmine D. Graves MPH, Special Assistant, Office of the Commissioner, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene As the public health...
View ArticleTurning on the TAP: How Returning Access to Tuition Assistance for...
| By Lili Farhang | Today, Human Impact Partners, the Education from the Inside Out Coalition, and our partners are excited to release a report that examines an often-overlooked aspect of providing...
View ArticleHelping Communities Break The Cycle And Regain Their Power
| By Ronald Day | Today’s guest blog post is by Ronald Day, Associate Vice President of the David Rothenberg Center for Public Policy (DRCPP), The Fortune Society. It was originally published by...
View ArticleWhat Happens to a Dream Deferred?
| By Rachel Davis | This week’s blog is a repost by Rachel Davis of Prevention Institute. She links efforts to prevent injury and death due to violence to many of the policy issues that we research at...
View ArticleEducation: the Key to Health and Success for Foster Youth
| By Carlene Ervin | This week’s post is written by HIP’s Social Media, Research, and Data Collection Summer Intern, Carlene Ervin. She is a sophomore at Yale University and a resident of Oakland, CA....
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