Topic: Mental Health

Listen: Ali Velshi Banned Book Club on The Bell Jar
The MSNBC host and Citizen board member interviews Emily Van Duyne, Sylvia Plath expert and author of the upcoming book Loving Sylvia Plath
By Ali Velshi
Guest Commentary: Who or What Am I Most Resisting?
A citizen's prayer for our fractured times, from a local leader of the B Corp movement
By Jay Coen Gilbert
Ideas We Should Steal Festival 2023: Reducing Gun Violence with Roca’s Molly Baldwin
Roca, a program in Massachusetts and Baltimore trains shooters to refrain from shooting by literally changing their minds. See the founder at Ideas We Should Steal Festival on November 17
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
City of Wellness
Six Philadelphia heart and mind health startups compete this week for $50,000 in the Economy League’s Well City Challenge.
By Natalie Pompilio
Guest Commentary: Black Male Mental Health Must Matter
Around the country, Black teen suicide rates are growing at a scary pace. A Philly social worker, who is also a Black man, calls for help
By Kenneth Bourne II
20+ Philly Education Organizations to Support
How to help students in Philadelphia? Give a hand to any of these initiatives, organizations that are already doing the good work to support students, educators and communities
By The Philadelphia Citizen Staff
Seeing the Unseen
Through visual art and public gatherings, fashion designer Zarinah Lomax’s Apologues is telling the stories of our city’s trauma — and its survivors
By James Peterson
Character Lab: You Can Change Your Ways!
Got a habit that drives someone else crazy? Know someone who does? This Wharton researcher offers an easy tip for changing your age-old routines.
By Asaf Mazar