Skip to main content.

Search form

Menu

free legal services

Picture of Bernice Yeung

Neglected for decades, unincorporated communities lack basic public services

By Bernice Yeung

Nearly every day, Arleen Hernandez battles an aging septic tank that backs up into her toilet and shower. Upon moving to Parklawn in 1986, she didn’t realize her new neighborhood lacks basic public services.

Picture of Admin User

Sheila Hall

By Admin User

Sheila Hall is director of the HIV/AIDS & Health legal assistance program at the East Bay Community Law Center, the largest provider of free legal services in the East Bay and a nationally recognized poverty law clinic. The center, founded in 1988 by law students at UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law, serves several thousand low-income clients and community groups each year with legal matters directly affecting their income, shelter and health care. The HIV/AIDS & Health practice offers legal services to HIV-positive clients and their families.

Announcements

8/10 Webinar: Are Hospitals Profiting by Shunning Patients of Color?

The pandemic has thrown into brutal relief the extent to which the U.S. health care system produces worse outcomes for patients of color. And yet there has been scant focus on one of the biggest drivers of structural racism in health care: How doctors and hospitals are paid. In this webinar, we’ll highlight the ways in which the health care system’s focus on money and good grades is shortchanging the health of communities of color. Sign-up here!

8/24 Webinar: The Youth Mental Health Crisis

U.S. children and teens have struggled with increasing rates of depression, anxiety and suicidal behavior for much of the past decade. Join us as we explore the systemic causes and policy failures that have accelerated the crisis and its inequitable impact, as well as promising community-driven approaches and evidence-based practices. The webinar will provide fresh ideas for reporting on the mental health of youth and investigating the systems and services. Sign-up here!

Now accepting applications for our 2022 Data Fellowship

     

We’re hiring! Apply now to become the next member of our team.

The USC Center for Health Journalism at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism is seeking two Engagement Editors and a social media consultant to join its team. Learn more about the positions and apply.

CONNECT WITH THE COMMUNITY

  • Login or Join to connect with the community.

Most popular

  1. Evictions are rising in Connecticut. What does it mean for the mental health of kids?
  2. College students are struggling. Are schools doing enough to help?
  3. Monkeypox case in a California toddler is a reminder that viruses don’t discriminate
  4. The Senate is set to take historic action to curb runaway costs for prescription drugs
  5. What I learned reporting on the failures of California’s coercive control law
  6. Coronavirus Files: Mask mandates back in the news; Novavax gets CDC green light

Follow Us

Facebook

Twitter

CHJ Icon
ReportingHealth