“With every negative, there’s always a ton of positives,” says Kaleb Cook, the community and therapeutic recreation supervisor for Glenwood Springs. The 22-year-old supervisor came to Colorado and got ...

Every summer after June and July fly by and the August heat hits, kids and parents start to feel the nervous jitters associated with the new school year quickly approaching. They aren’t alone in this ...

Local businesses in Santa Monica are coming together to support the employees and the patients of UCLA Medical Center. The pediatrics unit at the Mattel Children’s hospital is constantly ...

Suggested Citation: "5 Measurement Tools for a Community Health Improvement Process." Institute of Medicine. 1997. Improving Health in the Community: A Role for Performance Monitoring. Washington, DC: ...

What is a Community Health Profile? A community health profile uses publicly available existing data to describe the health of a neighborhood or community. The data used are often called "indicators" ...

“Service has been the essential foundation of my Bowdoin career. It not only allows me to build my academic interests, but also provides a richer and more experiential understanding of the issues I ...

Meet your incredible suburban neighbors. Share your own story. Here, we feature local volunteers, small-business owners, high school athletes and teachers who live in the suburbs of Chicago. Would you ...