Knowledge Base

More than one in five adults in the United States is living with a mental illness. The same is true for youth ages 13-18. 

Cincinnati nonprofit 1N5 takes its name from that statistic. Its mission is ...

What’s the matter with kids these days? You can’t get them to put down their phones for a nice family dinner. They’re constantly on TikTok!

That’s a cliché, of course. Most people from older generati...

One of the most powerful tools in substance use disorder recovery is self-care. And it works equally well for those on both sides of the equation: the people who are in recovery and their loved ones.

What does the voice in your head sound like? Are you your own worst critic?

When you make a mistake at work, what do you say to yourself? Some people berate themselves: “That was stupid. You know bet...

The Community Health Workers (CHWs) that work one-on-one with Health Care Access Now (HCAN)’s clients give so much of themselves. “If we have 30 clients, they have 30 plus different situations,” says ...

The idea of self-care has been around for a long time. The very concept of moderate exercising or eating well to improve health has roots in self-care.

People expect that their physical health will slowly deteriorate as they age. We all know it will happen. It’s just a matter of when it occurs and the severity and swiftness of the decline.

“A lot of elderly people are afraid to be alone, afraid to die alone.” So says Lynniece Scurry, Community Health Worker (CHW) for Health Care Access Now (HCAN). HCAN trains and dispatches CHWs to comm...

Aging affects all of us differently. 

“Human beings are complex. Life is complex. There’s a long list of health troubles we might experience as we get older,” says Dr. Douglas Smucker, Medical Adviso...

It’s difficult enough to care for young children.
It’s difficult enough to care for an elderly parent.
What about if you have to care for both, at the same time?  

For some people, “sandwich caregiving...