Community Partners Health & Wellness Breakfast: Video Posted
Over on our YouTube channel, we’ve posted video of the speakers’ presentations from our May 11 community breakfast, where the topic was […]
Category: Health & Wellness
Community Partner Breakfast: A Focus on Health & Wellness
Today, City Connects hosted our annual spring gathering of community partners. The meeting, “Creating Dynamic School Partnerships to Increase the Health and […]
Bullying and the School Nurse
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, which discussed the link between family violence and bullying, a new paper in the journal Pediatrics […]
New Report Shows Relationship Between Family Violence & Bullying in Massachusetts Schools
Bullying and family violence may be related, according to a new report conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) […]
Emerson Students Meet the Globetrotters
The Harlem Globetrotters were in town last weekend and put on a show for fifth graders from Roxbury’s Emerson Elementary at the […]
“Income Gap” Growing for Middle-class Families
A report from the Foundation for Child Development (FCD) offers an analysis of the relationship between family income and child health, education, […]
More Sleep, Less Obese?
A new study published in Pediatrics finds that kids who sleep more hours and on a regular schedule are less likely to […]
Effective Strategies to Alleviate Childhood Hunger Described in New Report
A new report from the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the Sodexo Foundation takes an in-depth look at efforts to curb childhood […]
Report Shows Relationship Between Child Neglect, Poverty, and Struggling Caregivers
An issue brief published by the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire, “Hard Times Made Harder: Struggling Caregivers and Child […]
Study Shows School Lunch Programs May Help Break Poverty Cycle
A new study published online in the journal Pediatrics found that food insecurity is associated with poor academic achievement in adolescents. However, […]