East Palo Alto often sits in the shadow of Silicon Valley. One place that’s evident is in the options for youth. Only 17% of students have access to art education in school.

In its nearly 35 years in operation, San Francisco’s Homeless Prenatal Program, has worked with the aim of breaking the cycle of extreme poverty by helping pregnant women with health care, housing, parenting classes and other needed services for themselves and their children.

Watch how our partners at the Olive Branch Mission work with Accelerated Moving Events.

We are thrilled to let you know the Maternal and Child Health Stillbirth Prevention Act has passed in the United States Senate by unanimous consent.

With a focus on systemic change, Turnaround for Children, now known as the Center for Whole-Child Education at ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, partnered with the Butte County Office of Education (BCOE) to explore the integration of whole-child practices in California’s State System of Support.

It’s on! After a successful summer program, the school year has started off strong.

This simple website was designed to provide easy, accessible, updated communication about the latest scientific findings, news articles, and media activities from our group that are related to the interconnected mental health of children.

Social media profoundly impacts youth today, shaping their behavior, attitudes, and perceptions in various ways.

Located atop Mount Carmel near Haifa, the Yemin Orde Youth Village is celebrating 70 years of acting as a school and home for immigrant and at-risk Israeli youth.

California is struggling with the intertwined crises of homelessness and mental illness. But are Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new CARE Courts the right prescription?

The milestones we’ve achieved and the stories of hope and resilience of the last year.

As newly liberated areas become accessible and we continue our response to the Kakhovka dam breach, we are expanding and adapting our services.

Just this year, we worked with small island nations to conserve enormous swaths of the South Pacific. In the Amazon, we expanded our Indigenous-led protection and restoration efforts.

The news builds on the momentum of our recent position paper and poll in response to AI technologies’ growing presence and impact in the public consciousness.

Led by CEO Gulnara Salmenova, Teach For Qazaqstan is currently in the process of placing its first cohort of about 50 participants who were selected from over 3,000 applicants and start their training institute this month.

In December 2022, we launched our first in a series of four issue briefs about the opportunities and challenges of providing wraparound services in California. Today we’re excited to release a follow up brief, and the timing couldn’t be more urgent.

Listen to HPP’s Executive and Founder discuss their innovative approach to helping families exit poverty and homelessness.

For the second time in as many years, Gov. Gavin Newsom is pushing for major reform of California’s mental health system, this time by overhauling the way counties spend mental health dollars and placing a bond measure before voters to build more psychiatric beds.

The 7.8- and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes brought widespread devastation to both Turkey and Syria, with the total numbers of lives lost, injuries and destroyed buildings continuing to rise a month after the quakes.

Carolyn Ross is CEO of All Chicago Making Homelessness History, lead agency for the umbrella organization that wrote the city’s grant application.