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April 30, 2025
Philadelphians Find Nature on The Path To Healing From Gun Violence
As part of Stoneleigh’s efforts to address Philadelphia’ gun violence epidemic, the Foundation recently partnered with Love Now Media to produce Breaking Concrete, a short…
April 28, 2025
Trump’s Anti-DEI Push Raises Concerns Among Black Officers in Local Police Departments
Former Stoneleigh Fellow Nikki Smith-Kea spoke to The Marshall Project about federal efforts to roll back DEI initiatives, and about the benefits that DEI-rooted solutions…
April 15, 2025
2 Philadelphia researchers concerned with losing federal dollars for gun violence prevention
Stoneleigh Fellow Jessica Beard spoke to WHYY about federal cuts to gun violence research and their potential impact on health and well-being in Philadelphia. Two…
April 11, 2025
How Philly can look to New Jersey to fix its child welfare…
Stoneleigh Fellow Steve Volk has published part 3 of his 3-part series in The Philadelphia Inquirer covering Philadelphia’s foster care system. The problems bedeviling Philadelphia’s…
April 10, 2025
Inside Philly’s hidden foster care system, where parents ‘voluntarily’ give up their…
Stoneleigh Fellow Steve Volk has published part 2 of his 3-part series in The Philadelphia Inquirer covering Philadelphia’s foster care system. In fall 2021, Tytianna…
April 9, 2025
Philly removes neglected children from homes to keep them safe. But they…
Stoneleigh Fellow Steve Volk and his colleagues at Resolve Philly and The Philadelphia Inquirer have published a new article covering Philadelphia’s Community Umbrella Agency system.…
April 8, 2025
Toothless ‘child advocate’ position should be replaced by empowered abuse watchdog, former…
Stoneleigh Youth Advocacy Fellow Bree Hood spoke to Spotlight PA about the impact of injustices in Pennsylvania’s youth justice and foster care systems. Pennsylvania’s foster…
April 6, 2025
New program helps gun violence survivors connect with journalists
Stoneleigh Emerging Leader Oronde McClain was featured by the Association of Health Care Journalists for launching a new program to help journalists connect responsibly with…
March 31, 2025
Those Closest to the Problem Are Also Closest to the Solution
Stoneleigh Emerging Leader Fellow Oronde McClain spoke to Armed with Reason about his work to create the Survivor Connection and better equip survivors and journalists…
March 28, 2025
US government cuts imperil life-saving gun violence research. As doctors, we fear…
Stoneleigh Fellow Jessica Beard and her peer trauma surgeon Elinore Kaufman have published an op-ed for The Guardian urging readers to support research to better…
March 16, 2025
Opinion: Trauma surgeons: We are bracing for a return to the rates…
Stoneleigh Fellow Jessica Beard and her colleague Elinore Kaufman have published an op-ed for The Philadelphia Inquirer discussing the risk waning support for gun violence…
March 9, 2025
Pennsylvania’s last governor appointed a statewide child advocate. Then the pushback started.
Stoneleigh Fellow and Inquirer Journalist Samantha Melamed has published an article covering the ongoing developments surrounding Pennsylvania’s Office of Advocacy and Reform as well as…
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