Category: Blogs

Psychoactive medications are the most expensive and fastest-growing class of pharmaceutical agents for children. The cost, side effects, and unprecedented growth rate at which these drugs are prescribed has raised alarms from health care clinicians, patient advocates, and agencies about the appropriateness of how these drugs are distributed to parents and their children. The authors […]

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Centering Equity in Evaluation: Our Processes […]

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The Scattergood Foundation has been supporting the Health and Design Research Seminar at Drexel University since 2016, as a way to sustain and support our past Design Challenges and broadening the use of Design Thinking principles. The course grew out of Drexel’s participation in the AIA Design & Health Research Consortium and led by Dr. […]

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April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month, and our attention rightly turns to ways we can support children who have experienced abuse or neglect. According to the US Children’s Bureau, in 2018 there were 687,000 children in foster care in the United States due to abuse or neglect. More than 5,000 of those children live […]

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I wanted to first start by framing my comments in VietLead’s analysis of our time, place, and conditions: We live in a white supremacist, anti-black, heteropatriarchial, capitalist system – this is true for much of the world due to globalization – but its logics were perfected right here, in the United States. We are, however, […]

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This Women’s History Month, we are thrilled to spotlight our grantees and partners who are passionate and committed advocates for their communities, and for other women.  This past January, Sharon Hartz was inducted as the 38th president of the Korean American Association of Greater Philadelphia (KAAGP). As the third woman to hold this position in […]

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All over the world, and in all works of life, the impact and imprint of women is seen and felt, and behavioral health is no different. At the Scattergood Foundation, we have been privileged to work with amazing women leaders who are changing the game in the way behavioral health is seen and in how […]

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We are celebrating Black History Month all February long by recognizing African American leaders that the Foundation has the great fortune of working with. These leaders are addressing the inequities in our behavioral health system and beyond each and everyday. Though we are celebrating this month, we are truly grateful and humbled by their work […]

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In 2020, the Scattergood Foundation will be 15 years old. In our decade and a half, the Foundation has built new programs, expanded staff, and developed areas of focus – navigating significant change. Through our evolution, we have had the opportunity to learn and grow, but maintained an unwavering commitment to improving behavioral health and […]

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People with serious mental illness are overrepresented in the justice system, and most county jails in the United States house three times as many people with serious mental illness as would be expected from community-based estimates. The authors of a newly released paper in the Think Bigger Do Good Policy Series review the complex array […]

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