Street Beats: Empowering Homeless Youth Through Music

Philadelphia homeless youths
If you live, work, or visit Philadelphia you are probably accustomed to seeing homeless people on the streets. It’s a sad reality of city life. Even more unfortunate is the growing number of homeless youth among those living on the streets. A U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development survey in January found nearly 560 homeless youths living in emergency and transitional housing in Philadelphia....
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Spotlight on Healthy Hearts: American Heart Month events

A resilient muscle that’s seldom at rest, the heart is the most important organ in the body. Endlessly pumping blood and beating 100,000 times daily as we go about our routines, the heart is the ultimate workaholic of the human body. This year, in honor of American Heart Month, the Independence Blue Cross Foundation (Foundation) Healthy Hearts initiative is promoting ways you can show appreciation for your body’s hardest-working organ....
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Breaking the Cycle of Addiction, Family by Family

Did you know that more than 9 million children in the U.S. live with a parent who uses illegal drugs?* Here’s another drug abuse fact: children living with an addicted family member are four times more likely than their peers to develop a drug dependency. ** In an effort to break the drug and alcohol addiction cycle,...
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