This story was originally posted by The DC Line online version on Sept. 13, 2022. It’s in your gas stove. It leaks from service lines leading into houses and apartment buildings. It crisscrosses large regions of the United States through underground pipelines. It has the potential to warm the planet 80 to 85 times...
Category: Health equity
Access to tobacco products, including vapes, and proximity of retailers pose challenge for youth
In Baltimore, more than 87% of tobacco retailers are within 1,000 feet of a public school, according to a study by researchers at Stanford University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Washington University in St. Louis. This story ran in the Afro News online August 2. East of Baltimore in Essex, Maryland, middle and high...
AccesSOS brings emergency services to Deaf community
Gabriella Wong received a text from her father saying he had gotten into a car accident, and she immediately called 911 for him. Both of her parents are deaf, and she is their hearing emergency point of contact that represents a life-or-death difference for them. While Wong spoke to a dispatcher on the phone, she...
As 988 launch date approaches, progress on crisis hotline builds
By Hermes Falcon, Youthcast Media Group™ A new hotline launches July 16 to handle mental health and substance use crises in place of 911. Similarly to 911, the hotline is only three numbers long: 988. Speakers at Virtual NAMICon 2022 conference “Together for Mental Health” in June discussed the importance of this new hotline and...
Lifelong friends Larry Owens and Donald Shakir use art to handle life after prison
This story ran in Black News & Voices with the National Association of Black Journalists online July 28, 2022 By Aileen Delgado On May 24, 2012, the Maryland Court of Appeals ruled that portions of specific jury instructions were unconstitutional and that individuals convicted in criminal cases before 1980 were entitled to new trials —...
Miles Hall’s mom says he’d ‘likely be alive today’ if she could’ve called 988 instead of 911
Published in the San Bernardino American, June 28, 2022 By Radiah Jamil and Julianne Hill, Youthcast Media Group™ Four officers from the Walnut Creek Police Department in California arrived at Taun Hall’s home just minutes after she called 911, seeking help for her son Miles who was experiencing a mental health crisis. For years, Hall...
Expectations met and ‘surpassed’ as YMG student journalists’ climate report runs in Miami Herald
By Brie Zeltner, Youthcast Media Group™ To a student journalist, there’s little more exciting than the day your byline appears in a big media outlet for the first time. For four YMG students, that day was Sunday, June 5, when their story on the impact of climate change on Miami residents ran in the Miami...
Illegal dumping in the Bronx isn’t just ugly – it’s a health hazard
By Yesenia Barrios This story was published in the Bronx Times on April 4, 2022. On a cold Sunday afternoon, Mike Cintron is sweeping the sidewalk in front of his home on Rosedale Avenue in the Bronx. The wind has scattered garbage from piles of waste paper, household trash, broken furniture and used electronics that...
Systemic racism spurs COVID-19 to hit Florida communities of color harder
By Julianne Hill, Justin Fernandez, Gabriella Fuster, and Melissa Noda Urban Health Media Project Florida’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic unmasked disparities in healthcare based on socioeconomic factors, disproportionately hurting communities of color in the state while exposing weaknesses in leadership, according to a Florida health expert. “We know from our country’s history that responding...
Early screening for learning disabilities ‘would make a huge difference’
By Aileen Delgado, Courtney Curtis and Rick Hampson Urban Health Media Project WASHINGTON -- Frank Pinckney wonders what his life could have been like if his parents and teachers had believed what he now believes: that as a child he had a learning disability, attention deficit disorder (ADHD) and suffered from trauma after a sexual...