Reclaiming America’s Youth and Recovering Our Economy
by Chelsea Clinton
Crime and ennui in Columbia Heights, D.C., overwhelmed the adolescence of Elmer Diaz, a first-generation immigrant from El Salvador. He was always bright, but with his hard-working parents constantly away from home, Elmer’s life became entwined with gangs. He also got into drugs. Then he dropped out of high school.
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Health
A Slideshow Celebrating International Women's Day
Over the past 11 years we've been working to strengthen opportunity for women and girls around the world – from educating young girls on life-long healthy eating habits to providing women business owners in Haiti, Latin America, Africa, and the United States with technical assistance, as well as providing...
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Improving Women’s Heart Health
While it is always important for us to take steps to improve all aspects of our health, this month, I encourage you to focus specifically on your cardiovascular health. As we recognize February as American Heart Month, it is critical for us understand just how deeply cardiovascular disease is affecting...
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Arkansas Welcomes the Clinton Health Matters Initiative
While the overall health of our state has begun to improve, Arkansas is still ranked near the bottom in many national health indicator reports. In fact, more than 50 percent of Arkansas adults are living with at least one chronic disease. These people struggle...
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Impact of the 2013 Health Matters Conference
In January the Clinton Foundation hosted its second annual health and wellness conference, Health Matters: Activating Wellness In Every Generation, where conference participants announced pledges to action totaling more than $100 million. These pledges will work to increase access for education, disease prevention...
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Health Matters Conference Inspires Pledges to Action
With the recent launch of the Clinton Health Matters Initiative (CHMI), we anticipate that 2013 will be a year of catalyzing action on the health and wellness challenges we face across the United States. To help create sustainable solutions that can be replicated nationally, we are calling on individuals, communities, and organizations to make pledges to increase access to resources that can help people everywhere live better – from health and wellness education to healthier food and fresh produce to health care and mental health support.
And in the short time since CHMI’s launch in November 2012,…
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