Health and Wellbeing : Features

The built environment plays a crucial role in a neighborhood's health. Would upgrading Ward 7's downtown create healthier people?

Think it's hard to grow food in the city and make money at it? You'd be 100% correct. Still, that hasn't stopped these intrepid farmers from trying--and, in some ways, succeeding.

Teens in all eight wards are surrounded by peer pressure to have sex and a lack of knowledge about how to be safe. So why is it that the majority of pregnant teens are in just two wards?

Our panel discussion last week centered on how can the District build healthier communities full of healthier people. Did you miss it? We've got the write-up.

School gardens, a second classroom where hands-on learning reigns supreme, are cropping up across the nation. Two cities  – D.C. and Denver – are changing the way their gardens grow with innovative additions to their programming.  

On June 24, Elevation DC and Kaiser Permanente will host a panel discussion about how food can change communities.

We're taking a long-awaited vacation, so this week, enjoy these greatest hits from our archives.

Six teams will go on to the next stage of the design competition to build an elevated park across the Anacostia.

Don't call it a complete guide to bikeshare. Call it Elevation DC's take on answering the bikeshare questions you (should) think hardest about.

A new program is fighting obesity and carryout food in Ward 7 with cooking classes at Lincoln Heights, the city's second-largest low-income housing complex.

D.C. council mulls adding a "food czar"--which could mean more urban farms, local food, and green initiatives for all.

The proposed elevated park across the Anacostia would be a first for D.C. With a national design competition for the bridge kicking off, Elevation DC checked in on the park and its goals of fostering economic development, community health, and a cleaner river.

 If students are engaged in meaningful activities after school and during the week, they're less at risk, say experts. These programs cure a host of social ills through providing positive opportunities for teens and young girls.

"Kidical Mass," the biking movement for kids and their parents, is active in the District. We sat down with the D.C. chapter's founder for a Q&A session about bikes and safer streets.