Community Health Messaging Project 

Possible Interview Resources

Students- you can reach out to the following people for interviews or you can listen to various podcasts or online interviews and use them in your research paper. 

Here are some other Credible Sources for your Research:

If you need help with sources, let Mx. Hollis know! The following come from students who asked for help!

Gangs 

• https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2040373/
• https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8250570/
• https://mayor.lacity.gov/news/lapd-releases-2024-end-year-crime-statistics-city-los-angeles
• https://mayor.lacity.gov/news/lapd-releases-end-year-crime-statistics-city-los-angeles-2023
• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1473225419893779?icid=int.sj-abstract.citing-articles.34
• https://www.aacap.org/AACAP/Families_and_Youth/Facts_for_Families/FFF-Guide/Children-and-Gangs-098.aspx
• https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5373929/
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28409716/
• https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2288&context=etd
• Latino Youth Gangs in Central California An Autoethnographic Understanding of Academic Aspirations and Success.pdf
• Identifying risks for male street gang affiliation a systematic review and narrative synthesis..pdf

Sex Trafficking

• Https://www.justia.com/criminal/offenses/sex-crimes/prostitution/ 
• Https://www.hrc.org/resources/beyond-the-stereotypes-a-deep-dive-into-sex-work#swas 
• Https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/05/california-democrats-teen-sex-solicitation/ 
• Https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/89451/legal_aid_final_0.pdf 
• Https://www.egattorneys.com/safer-street-for-all-act#:~:text=Disproportionate%20Impact%20on%20Marginalized%20Communities,and%20discrimination%20against%20vulnerable%20populations. 
• Https://cityattorney.lacity.gov/children-exposed-violence-and-gun-violence 
• Https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/18/south-los-angeles-gun-violence-children 
• Https://www.childrensinstitute.org/health/reach/ 
• Https://lacounty.gov/2025/02/04/da-hochman-announces-charges-in-statewide-human-trafficking-operation-reclaim-and-rebuild/ 
• Https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB14 
• Https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2040373/ 
• Https://news.umich.edu/living-in-a-violent-neighborhood-affects-childrens-brain-development/ 
• Https://cocosouthla.org/free-the-land/ 
• https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-do-men-buy-sex-2012-10-23/

Social Media and Cell Phones

• https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/sg-youth-mental-health-social-media-advisory.pdf 
• https://www.apa.org/topics/social-media-internet/health-advisory-adolescent-social-media-use.pdf 
• PicturePerfectTheRelationshipBetweenSelfieBehaviors.pdf
• Social Media and Body Dissatisfaction among Latina Adolescents.pdf
• https://www.rutgers.edu/news/cellphone-distraction-classroom-can-lead-lower-grades-rutgers-study-finds 
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0747563218301912 
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/05/09/school-cellphone-ban-yondr/ 
• https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1611612115 
• https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/podcasts/transcript-ezra-klein-interviews-jean-twenge.html 
• https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2022/08/10/teens-social-media-and-technology-2022/ 
• https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-019-2350-x 
• https://www.edutopia.org/article/students-need-learn-manage-their-own-screen-time/ 
• https://www.mindfulnessforteens.com/guided-meditations 
• https://www.edutopia.org/article/healthy-digital-habits-students/ 
• https://www.aap.org/en/patient-care/media-and-children/center-of-excellence-on-social-media-and-youth-mental-health/#:~:text=What%20We%20Do,protect%20youth%20mental%20health%20online 
• https://www.aap.org/en/patient-care/media-and-children/center-of-excellence-on-social-media-and-youth-mental-health/the-good-and-bad-of-social-media-what-research-tells-us/ 
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fduXfLDimh8 
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09AkjiIpX94 
• https://ca.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ups-and-downs-social-media-video/evaluating-mental-health-effects-students-on-our-minds-podcast/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=2023-05-18&utm_campaign=mentalhealth_2023 

Resources for Mr. Brown’s Physics Classes:

• Database Lesson Slides
• Air Quality Management District Real-Time Air Pollution Maps- Real-time air quality information by census tract.
• CalEnviroScreen Version 4.0- Displays neighborhood pollution by census tract. 
• Los Angeles GeoHub- The GeoHub is the City's public platform for exploring, visualizing, and downloading location-based Open Data. You can also analyze and combine Open Data layers using maps, as well as develop new web and mobile applications. Can search for air pollution and walkability index scores.
• Chasing Carbon Zero- 50 minute PBS Documentary published in 2023. The U.S. recently set an ambitious climate change goal: net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. And to achieve that, slash emissions in half by 2030. Is it possible? And what kind of technology would it take? Meet scientists and engineers who are convinced we can achieve carbon zero in time to avoid the biggest impacts of climate change. Only the trailer is available on YouTube, but accessible in Schoology → App DropDown → Clever → Proquest eLibrary → PBS → search “Chasing Carbon Zero” 
• Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority 2023 Homelessness Census- This count of people experiencing homelessness for LA County is by service provider area (SPA), not census tract, but students are encountering a lot of people who may be experiencing homelessness on their commute, LAHSA is a good place to get data to support the observation.
• Transit Center Equity Dashboard and TransitCenter is a foundation that works to secure a more just and sustainable future with abundant public transportation options. While the Equity Dashboard doesn't show access to middle or high schools, this map does show area access via transit to jobs, hospitals, colleges and universities, and other community resources. It's a good indicator of how well-served by transit a neighborhood is. 
• WalkScore.com- NOT a government site, mostly used by real estate. Still, this site provides a useful rating for how walkable neighborhoods are, along with transit accessibility and other information.
• Walkability Index- nationwide geographic data resource that ranks block groups according to their relative walkability
• The Street Project-  a PBS Documentary from 2022. Worldwide, more than a million people die in traffic-related crashes each year. Half of those deaths are pedestrians and cyclists. The Street Project is an inspiring story about a movement to reclaim our largest public spaces, our streets. Accessible on YouTube as well as in Schoology → App DropDown → Clever → Proquest eLibrary → PBS → search “The Street Project”
• HealthMap- a freely accessible, automated electronic information system for monitoring, organizing, and visualizing reports of global disease outbreaks according to geography, time, and infectious disease agent

• • Scientific American- comprehensive news website with variety of articles
  • NPR Science- has easy to understand articles and radio clips too
  • BBC News Science- global science news
  • Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)- national public health agency
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)- national agency responsible for public health research
  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)- national agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the U.S
  • National Science Foundation (NSF)- national agency that supports research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering.
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)-  international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting scientific education and science outreach for the betterment of all humanity
  • American Medical Association (AMA)- professional association of physicians and medical students whose mission is "to promote the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health."
  • National Academy of Sciences (NAS)- non-profit society of distinguished scholars charged with providing independent, objective advice to the nation on matters related to science and technology
  • Health.gov- a department of the federal government created to protect the health of the U.S. people and provide essential human services
  • LA Public Library List of Helpful Science Websites

• PubMed Central- National Center for Biotechnology Information- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ 
• National Library of Medicine- https://www.nlm.nih.gov/ 
• Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA)- https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/currentissue 
• New England Journal of Medicine- https://www.nejm.org/toc/nejm/medical-journal 
• Science - Academic Journal for the American Association for the Advancement of Science- https://www.science.org/journals 
• Nature- https://www.nature.com/ 
• PLOS Science- https://plos.org/ 
• PLOS Medicine- https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/ 
• PLOS Biology- https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/issue 
• PLOS Genetics- https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/issue 
• Journal of Clinical Investigation- https://www.jci.org/133/17 
• Emerging Infectious Diseases- https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/ 
• British Medical Journal- https://www.bmj.com/ 
• Free, Open-Access Scientific Academic Databases
• Federal Science Database - https://www.science.gov/ 
• Google Scholar- https://scholar.google.com/ 
• Directory of Open Access Journals- provides access to over 300 scientific journals- https://doaj.org/ 
• For a list of more open access journals, check here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-access_journals