Sources: MaDeuceDeuce Jersey City officials and Berry Lane Park announce the opening a nearly 12,000-square-foot skate park made possible with funding from the Tony Hawk Foundation and Hudson county. The skatepark is the largest in Jersey City, and the first poured-in-place concrete skate park in Hudson County, completing the transformation of Berry Lane Park from […]
Summer Child Car Safety: KidsAndCars.org · Car Hazards To Children · Safety/Prevention Tools Source: KidsAndCars.org Roughly 2,400 child or infant deaths occur each year from non-traffic related accidents. Non-traffic incidents are injuries or deaths that occur in or around a vehicle; but take place off public roads or highways, mainly in parking lots or driveways. […]
Source: New Jersey Patch Governor Phil Murphy has signed legislation that will increase affordability and expand access to health care, according to officials. The bill creates state-level subsidies to lower the cost of health insurance for residents purchasing coverage on the Marketplace this fall and restores a provision in the Affordable Care Act. The legislation […]
Source: Domestic violence does not stop during times of crisis. In fact, when stressors increase, violence and abuse can quickly escalate. For many victims, staying at home means being isolated with someone who is harming them, according to a press release from 180 Turning Lives Around (180 TLA). For 44 years, 180 TLA, a private, […]
Source: Snopes.com; MHANJ.org People in the U.S. who feel suicidal can now dial “988” instead of the standard 10-digit phone number to reach the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (NSPL) that provides emergency counseling, under new guidelines adopted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in . The new code will connect callers to the federally-run NFPL’s […]
Juvenile Arthritis Awareness: Arthritis.org · Juvenile New Jersey Chapter · Donate · New Jersey Pediatric Rheumatologists Juvenile arthritis (JA), also known as pediatric rheumatic disease, isn’t a specific disease. It’s an umbrella term to describe the inflammatory and rheumatic diseases that develop in children under the age of 16. These conditions affect nearly 300,000 kids […]