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As part of the Get It Done initiative, 14 barber shop and hair salon owners are distributing Narcan and offering overdose prevention education.

Healthi Kids joined the Booktacular Fall Festival to share our infant mental health resources.

The report emphasizes that schools are uniquely positioned to provide early intervention and prevention.

The SACE Project is helping older adults in nursing homes know that they are not forgotten.

“Screening can save lives because we can find polyps before they become colon cancer.”

About 60 coalition members came together for an all-coalition gathering in October.

In The Headlines

Sounding the alarm on youth self-harm

WXXI

December 3, 2025 - Holley Sienkiewicz, research director at Common Ground Health, reports that self-harm has become the leading behavioral health-related reason youth are visiting emergency departments.
ERs reportedly seeing more youth self-harm; local nonprofit calls for school-based prevention

WXXI

December 2, 2025 - “In the light of this very frightening data, we need to make sure that children know that there are community resources and community neighbors and loving adults and friends who are here to help,” said Wade Norwood, Co-CEO at Common Ground Health/Rochester RHIO.
Everyone deserves home health care; not everyone gets it

WXXI Connections

November 26, 2025 - Phyllis Jackson, R.N., community health and wellbeing project manager for Common Ground Health emphasizes that home healthcare disparities reflect broader racism in communities and the healthcare system.
Second Opinion with Joan Lunden

WBIQ | PBS

September 7, 2025 - "Racial disparities are real and they have to be confronted", says Wade Norwood, CEO at Common Ground Health.