Foreclosure Process Takes Toll on Physical, Mental Health
October 21, 2011 | Story
RWJF scholars find that mortgage-delinquent homeowners more likely to suffer from depression, lack sufficient food supply and skip prescription drugs.
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Improving Built Environments and Community Connections Can Spur Better Health
September 28, 2011 | Story
Three innovative projects uncover ways to protect mental and physical health by changing the ways people live and interact with each other.
RWJF Community Health Leader Fights Asthma in East Harlem, Door to Door
September 6, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
HCB: How do you plan to identify children and families for the program? Lopez: Any children who live in two specific zip codes in East Harlem are eligible. That takes in tens of thousands of apartment units. And, unfortunately, 15 to 25 percent of s ...
Coming Home: Affordable Assisted Living
National Program
Program to provide grant support, technical assistance, and loan funds to states to create affordable models of assisted living targeted to low-income seniors and linked with existing community health care systems.
Having Mental Health Services On-Site Doesn't Prompt Public Housing Residents to Seek Care
January 29, 2002 | Program Result Report
This project delivered services to indigent, elderly inner-city residents with serious mental illness, living in public housing projects in New Brunswick, N.J.
Community Health Center Established in a Florida Public Housing Complex
July 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
Halifax Medical Center formed a public-private collaboration – Volusia County Cooperative Health Group (the cooperative) – to expand access to primary and specialty care for underserved residents of the Daytona Beach/Volusia County, Fla., area.
Coming Home: Affordable Assisted Living
February 25, 2013 | Program Result Report
Coming Home: Affordable Assisted Living is a national program to develop affordable models of assisted living, with a focus on smaller and rural communities and low-income seniors.
Program Results Topic Summary: Long-Term-Care Housing and Supportive Services
October 12, 2009 | Program Result Report
This Topic Summary synthesizes work supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and described in Grant Results that is related to housing and supportive services for chronically ill and disabled elderly and adults.
Human Capital News Roundup: Depression among nurses, health effects of foreclosures, heat waves, and more.
June 28, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Ryan Greysen, MD, MHS, an alumnus of the RWJF Clinical Scholars program, spoke to the San Francisco Chronicle about the risks and benefits of social media in health care. Greysen and colleagues recently surveyed 68 executive directors of medical and ...
The Returning Home Initiative: Ending the Cycle of Homelessness and Criminal Justice Involvement Through Supportive Housing
June 20, 2012 | Program Result Report
This initiative provides access to permanent supportive housing for people who have been incarcerated and have a history of mental illness, substance abuse, or both, and have cycled repeatedly through jails, shelters, hospitals, and detox centers.