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September 8, 2020

Should police be in schools? How arrests in Philadelphia’s school district dropped…

Former Stoneleigh Fellow and Board Member Kevin Bethel spoke to CBS News about the Philadelphia Police School Diversion Program and the city’s significant drop in…

September 3, 2020

Kinship care: Proactively addressing systemic racism in child welfare

Stoneleigh Emerging Leader Fellow Karissa Phelps penned an op-ed for Generocity that discusses how keeping children within their family and community circles can counteract the…

September 1, 2020

Maheen Kaleem is New Deputy Director of Grantmakers for Girls of Color

Former Stoneleigh Emerging Leader Fellow Maheen Kaleem is now the Deputy Director of Grantmakers for Girls of Color. Grantmakers for Girls of Color (G4GC) recently…

August 30, 2020

Beyond physical wounds, healing Black male trauma

Former Stoneleigh Fellow Ted Corbin and his Healing Hurt People Program are featured in a new USA Today op-ed by John Rich, in which he…

August 28, 2020

Experts Question CDC’s New COVID Testing Guidance

Former Stoneleigh Fellow Meredith Matone spoke to The Dispatch about the Center for Disease Control’s new guidelines on who should seek out a coronavirus test.…

August 27, 2020

As Philly’s violent summer continues, Pa. lawmakers could help by passing stricter…

Stoneleigh Fellow Ruth Abaya has authored a new op-ed in The Philadelphia Inquirer on Philadelphia’s surging gun violence crisis. In the last few months, everything…

August 13, 2020

A quarter of Pennsylvania renters can’t pay rent

Stoneleigh Fellow Vincent Reina and his Housing Initiative at Penn colleagues wrote an article for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette identifying five key statewide trends–independent of the…

August 10, 2020

Philly’s housing insecurity crisis needs long-term solutions | Opinion

Stoneleigh Fellow Vincent Reina and his Housing Initiative at Penn colleagues wrote an article for The Philadelphia Inquirer about the need for long-term solutions to…

August 7, 2020

What can be done to curb gun violence impacting children in Philadelphia?

Former Stoneleigh Fellow Ted Corbin spoke to Fox 29 Philadelphia about his Healing Hurt People program and the trauma of gun violence. A 6-year-old girl was…

August 5, 2020

Millions Of Children Have Lost Their Health Insurance—What’s Our Plan?

Former Stoneleigh Fellow and Board Member David Rubin and his PolicyLab colleagues have written an article for Health Affairs that highlights the recent erosion of…

August 3, 2020

America’s culture of individualism is key to turning coronavirus around | Expert…

Former Stoneleigh Fellow and Board Member David Rubin authored an op-ed for The Philadelphia Inquirer calling upon America’s culture of individualism as a means to…

July 20, 2020

CHOP outlines safe conditions for reopening schools

Former Stoneleigh Fellows Meredith Matone and David Rubin shared the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s recommendations for safely reopening schools with the Philadelphia Notebook. Back in…

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