Call for YSC applications

We are excited to share a youth engagement opportunity with the new National Health Care Transition Resource Center for Youth and Young Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. About the National Health Care Transition Resource Center (NHCTRC) The...
Why Does Food Matter?

Why Does Food Matter?

Why Does Food Matter? Everyone eats food. Food helps us to function and survive. However, low-income and marginalized communities often lack convenient places that offer affordable and healthy foods, these areas are known as food deserts. Food deserts are defined as...
Weapon of Control

Weapon of Control

Weapon of Control Food was used as a weapon to control enslaved blacks.  Abolitionist, social reformer, orator, writer, and statesman Frederick Douglass wrote in My Bondage and My Freedom, “I have often been so pinched with hunger, that I have fought with the...

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With families at the center of health care, all children and youth reach their full potential and health disparities are eliminated.

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Family Voices is a national organization and grassroots network of families and friends of children and youth with special health care needs and disabilities that promotes partnership with families—including those of cultural, linguistic and geographic diversity—in order to improve health care services and policies for children.

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