Posts Tagged ‘Income’
Building Wealth to Improve Health: StreetCred’s Job Training
An innovative program is reimagining pediatric care by integrating financial services for parents, including tax prep, job training, and budgeting.
Read MoreThe NICU’s Role in Addressing Poverty
A neonatologist argues that social needs screening and referral, which has grown more popular in outpatient clinics, is necessary in the neonatal intensive care unit, as well.
Read MoreClosing the Opportunity Divide to Transform Health Trajectories
As a Year Up partner, the hospital is disrupting systemic barriers to education that force young adults into cycles of poverty and poor health, instead creating pathways to economic mobility.
Read More‘A Very Powerful Treatment’: Career Services as Healthcare
From resume building to employer networking, employment preparation emerges as a unique health service for U.S. asylum seekers in Boston.
Read MoreA Smarter Policy Approach to Improving Housing Stability
Childcare costs, taxes, and eviction policies have an intertwined influence on housing stability, according to a new report from Children’s HealthWatch.
Read MorePediatric Care Should Address Families’ Actual Needs
Pediatricians know social determinants greatly influence child health, but we rarely address them in well visits. It’s time to rethink the standard of care.
Read MoreSSI Protects Families with SHCN from Housing Insecurity
Research finds that supplemental security income protects families from housing instability, especially those with young children who have SHCN, who may be more vulnerable.
Read MoreStreetCred: Transforming Pediatrics Through Tax Prep
Three years after it was founded by two pediatrics interns, a clinic-based tax-prep service can now be found in nine health systems around the nation.
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