Health Need: Social Determinants & More

Health is shaped by a wide range of factors, from a person’s access to education, food, and housing, to much more—even the diversity of the people who make biomedical discoveries and provide health care. Community service that promotes long-term well-being takes many forms.

Making Older Homes a Safer Haven for Young Families

Connecting the West Philadelphia Community to Careers 

Multiplying the Impact of Those Who Care for the Community

The Hospital Shares the Harvest

Every Kid Can Be a Scientist

Providing a Kit Full of Hope

She’s Helping Patients in Need Navigate Their Way Through a Cancer Diagnosis

Students and Startups Take on Social Determinants of Health

A Transformation of Mercy

Moms Supporting Moms

Greening for Health Equity in Black and Brown Communities

Tuesdays at the Love Lot

Food and Fellowship for Seniors in Need

Community Health Workers Lend a Helping Hand to Health

Support Across Generations for Safe Aging at Home

Building Kids’ Literacy — and Their Home Libraries

HUP Food Pantry Helps Patients with Food Insecurity

Bringing Yoga to Underserved Communities

Learning While Caring for Indigenous Populations

Food Farmacy Program Is a Prescription for Health

Grab-n-Flow Shed Provides Free Menstrual, Postpartum Supplies

A FAST Approach to Helping Food Insecurity

Developing Life Skills Through Dance

A New Public Health Campus to Replace a Closed Hospital in West Philadelphia

Connecting Across the Isolation of Cognitive Impairment

Vaccine House Calls Bring COVID Protection Home

Engaging Faith Communities to Reduce Vaccination Disparities

On the Razor’s Edge of COVID Closure, Helping Salons Safely Reopen

Fighting Philly’s Food Insecurity, One Grocery Bag at a Time

Empowering Refugee Families Through Language Education

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The Health Needs of Our Communities Programs A–Z
  • Behavioral Health
  • Health Care Access & Navigation
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  • Primary & Preventive Care
  • Social Determinants & More
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  • Substance Use & Abuse
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Programs A–Z
  • AIM to Empower
  • Ballroom Dancing For a Better U
  • Center for Health Equity Advancement
  • Center for Opioid Recovery and Engagement (CORE)
  • Chester County Hospital’s OB/Gyn Clinic
  • ChildProtect Vaccine Clinics
  • Clyde Barker Transplant House
  • COVID TRACE
  • Cut Hypertension
  • Deeply Rooted
  • ESL Grace Church & Grape Leaf Empowerment Center
  • FAST App
  • Fitness in Recovery
  • Flu FIT Fairs
  • Food Farmacy Program
  • Give-A-Kit
  • Grab-n-Flow
  • Hall-Mercer Community Mental Health Center of Pennsylvania Hospital
  • Heart Safe Motherhood
  • Heimlich Heroes
  • Hooked on Books
  • HUP Food Pantry
  • HUP Harvest
  • Jarell Christopher Seay Love and Laughter Foundation
  • Lancaster County Joining Forces
  • Lancaster General Health Street Medicine
  • Lead-Free Families
  • Mobile Mammography
  • Moms Like Me
  • One Extra Bag
  • Penn Center for Community Health Workers
  • Penn Center for Global Health
  • Penn Collaborative for CBT and Implementation Science
  • Penn HealthX Social Determinants of Health Accelerator
  • Penn Medicine & Mercy Philadelphia Hospital
  • Penn Medicine at Home
  • Penn Medicine Breast Health Initiative
  • Penn Medicine Center for Surgical Health
  • Penn Medicine Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Penn Medicine Primary Care
  • Penn Medicine Princeton Health First Responder Treatment Services
  • Penn Medicine Research
  • Penn Memory Center Memory Café
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center Trauma
  • PHMC Public Health Campus on Cedar
  • Prevention Point Philadelphia
  • Project BioEYES
  • Puentes de Salud
  • R.A.D. (Rape Aggression Defense) at Penn Medicine Princeton Health
  • Royal Generation Community Baby Shower
  • Safe Haircuts As We Reopen Philadelphia (SHARP)
  • Sayre Health Center COVID-19 Testing
  • Senior HealthLink
  • Service Link
  • Shelter Health Outreach Program
  • Stop the Bleed
  • the Trauma Center at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
  • Trendy Transitions
  • True Light Recovery
  • United Community Clinic
  • Vaccine Street Team
  • West Chester Area Senior Center
  • West Philadelphia Skills Initiative