social services

A college food pantry.

Campus food pantries are seeing greater demand — and more state dollars

BY: - August 30, 2023

SOUTH BRONX, New York City — In the South Bronx, one of the nation’s poorest communities, Hostos Community College has long positioned itself as an educational pathway out of poverty. But to make that journey, many Hostos students must contend with more than their schoolwork. Without the school’s child care center, students who are single […]

Children with a community skills teacher.

‘Truly a crisis’: Missouri hospitals house children in foster care with no place to go

BY: - June 23, 2023

On an early June day, five foster children were being housed by SSM Health at hospitals in the St. Louis area not because they were sick, but because there was no other place for them to live. They had each been in the hospital an average of 56 days. There were 23 adult clients of […]