The Green + Healthy Camden collaboration is working to create a Camden-specific mapping tool through the NJ Conservation Blueprint that illustrates the environmental factors affecting health outcomes in Camden, with a focus on the barriers to accessing public parks and...
Underlying drivers of poor health outcomes in Trenton are many and varied — related to poverty, structural racism, behavioral health, childhood trauma, immigration status and other variables that a traditional medical entity is ill-equipped to address alone. Trenton Health Team...
When the time came to update Trenton’s community health needs assessment, we knew statistics couldn’t tell the real story. Inspired by the Communities Moving to Action grant, Trenton Health Team (THT) engaged our community residents as partners in creating and realizing...
The Passaic County Food Policy Council was pleased to invite New Jersey Community Development Corporation’s (NJCDC) Youth CARES to present their summer project to fight hunger in Paterson. These youth leaders chose to work on addressing hunger as part of...
The Next Generation Community Leaders program has become a very successful youth team that helps empower its community. Bridgeton’s group is well-known for our successful youth feeding sites. Every day in July, we visited six feeding sites and not only...