By Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, November 1, 2019 Required Components Aligning Systems for Health will explore the degree to which health equity is impacted or results from current models of collaboration incorporating health care, public health, and social services. Gaps in health are large, persistent and increasing, and RWJF is committed to a system that meets people’s goals and needs and addresses these gaps that many populations face. Studies should include a focus on health equity by...

By Jeffrey Vanderploeg, Hartford Courant, December 22, 2019 The statistics are sobering. Rates of depression, anxiety and suicide among teens are on the rise, and by the time our children reach the age of 17, more than 70 percent will have experienced at least one traumatic event, such as physical or sexual abuse or witnessing serious violence in their home or community. Schools and pediatricians say they are seeing more children struggling, with more intensive needs. Too often, our state’s...