When neighborhoods change, it doesn’t just affect long-term residents’ housing options. It might be making them sick.
The new budget deal includes funding for the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting program for five years.
Rebuilding is expensive and draining for anyone caught in the path of a major storm. That's why such events tend to make existing disparities even worse.
The first 1,000 days of nutrition can set a child’s course for life or perpetuate a cycle of poverty.
When it comes to ensuring children receive key developmental screenings, California is doing a terrible job, according to data and expert interviews.
Rebecca Adams reported this story with support from the Fund for Journalism on Child Well-Being, a program of the University of Southern California Center for Health Journalism.
Juana, an immigrant mother from Guatemala, endured a terrible series of health and family crises. Yet despite her suffering and agony, her church urged her not seek out mental health help.
More than 50 farmworkers were exposed to the pesticide near Bakersfield, California, last spring.
The Warren Community Health Clinic building has sat empty since spring 2016. Word of a potential new facility opening up in Warren County has many around the community like Vicky Stokes hopeful.
The newly announced Center for Health Journalism Impact Fund will provide reporting grants of up to $10,000 news outlets, news collaboratives or individual reporters to undertake investigative or explanatory health reporting projects in California.
