Thank you so much for attending the 2024 Place Matters Summit! You’ll find additional resources, reports, and book recommendations linked below. -Allyson

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Reports, Articles, and Citations sorted by subject

Unstructured play for youth

Resurrecting Free Play in Young Children: Looking Beyond Fitness and Fatness to Attention, Affiliation, and Affect by Hillary L. Burdette, MD, MS; Robert C. Whitaker, MD, MPH, The Archives of Pediatrict and Adolescent Medicine, Jan. 2005

Loneliness and social disconnectedness in the United States

What does friendship look like in America? by Isabel Goddard, Pew Research Center, Oct. 2023
Friendships: Less is now more by Martin Armstrong, World Economic Forum, Nov. 2022
Face-to-face more important than digital communication for mental health during the pandemic, by S. Stieger, D. Lewetz & D. Willinger, Scientific Reports, May 2023
Social connection from The Center for Disease Control, March 2024
It’s time to harness the power of connection for our health and well-being by Etienne Krug, World Health Organization, Nov. 2023
Our epidemic of loneliness and isolation from The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on the Healing Effects of Social Connection and Community, 2023

Mental health and access to care in the United States

Suicide data, from the National Institute of Mental Health
National, State-level, and County-level prevalence estimates of adults aged ≥18 Years Self-Reporting a Lifetime Diagnosis of Depression — United States, from the Center for Disease Control, June 2023

The impact of social media on brain and mental health

Social Media and Youth Mental Health by The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory, 2023
Social media’s impact on our mental health and tips to use it safely from University of California Davis Health, May 2024

Social associational capital

Social Associational Capital by county data, from University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, 2024
Revisiting declines in social capital: evidence from a new measure by Inbar Weiss, Pamela Paxton, Kristopher Velasco & Robert W. Ressler, Social Indicators Research, July 2018

Volunteerism and charitable giving

Understanding generosity: A look at what influences volunteering and giving in the United States by Dr. Nathan Dietz, Dr. Robert T. Grimm, Jr., University of Maryland School of Public Policy Do Good Institute, November 2023