This reporting is supported by the University of Southern California Center for Health Journalism National Fellowship....
Since the Great Recession started more than a decade ago, many Arizona families have languished as the state, facing budget shortfalls, cut services again and again. Foster care placements have swelled.
Doctors have a privileged view of the true impact of guns, since they're on the frontlines of treating victims. Now, physicians across the country are starting to share stories of the trauma they've seen firsthand.
The 12-square-mile Hoopa Reservation in Northern California has been grappling with drug abuse for decades. A new reporting project aims to find out how Hoopa youth are navigating the realities of addiction.
This reporting is supported by the University of Southern California Center for Health Journalism National Fellowship.
This reporting is supported by the University of Southern California Center for Health Journalism National Fellowship.
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The Arizona Department of Child Safety received more than 9,000 reports regarding child safety from Pima County residents during fiscal year 2016. About 2,100 of those reports resulted in children being removed from homes.
More collaboration could help Arizona families avoid crises and keep children out of foster care, local service providers say.
Cristian Fernandez was propelled to international notoriety when he was just 12, when he fatally beat his 2-year-old brother. But, after seven years of incarceration, how does a 19-year-old begin to move on?
When neighborhoods change, it doesn’t just affect long-term residents’ housing options. It might be making them sick.