Connecting the health care system with food resource providers— pantries, summer feeding programs, etc.— takes strategy, collaboration, and people power. How can providers connect patients who identify as food insecure to resources if they don’t know where they are? How can they tell them when the mobile food pantry is Read more…
by Erin Beck As the COVID-19 pandemic persists, West Virginians have reported a drastic increase in cases of child sexual abuse involving the Internet. West Virginians reported about 450 more cases of online child sexual exploitation to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in 2021 than in 2020, Read more…
by Erin Beck, Kids’ Health Correspondent National health groups have declared a mental health crisis among the nation’s children. What does that look like in West Virginia? According to mental health professionals, adults aren’t detecting problems in kids soon enough, and there aren’t enough community-based options, such as local providers Read more…