FUND FOR JOURNALISM ON CHILD, YOUTH AND FAMILY WELLBEING Grantees
Christina Caron, New York Times, will report on the link between experiencing racism and mental health challenges for Black and Latino children.
*Kassie McClung, The Frontier (Oklahoma), will explore maternal and infant health in Oklahoma
Nina Shapiro, Seattle Times, will report on the digital divide in the age of COVID -- a time in which much of the world has gone remote.
Sushma Subramanian, Washington Post Magazine (freelance), will report about a new approach to child custody arrangements following divorce.
Jessica Washington, The Fuller Project, will report on how Native girls in Hennepin County, Minnesota are impacted by school discipline and the foster care and juvenile justice systems.
DENNIS A. HUNT FUND FOR HEALTH JOURNALISM Grantees
David Barer and Josh Hinkle, KXAN (Austin TV), will investigate socioeconomic and racial trends in Texas’ mental competency cases involving people charged with violence against public servants.
Jorge Carrasco and Juan Cooper of Noticias Telemundo will report on Latinos’ participation in clinical trials.
Allison Herrera KOSU (Oklahoma public radio) will report on tribal-run mental health programs in Oklahoma and whether they are having an impact on policing by both tribal and non-tribal law enforcement in the state.
*Laura Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, will examine systemic inequities in San Antonio’s health care and social services systems that have long encouraged economic growth and investment in more affluent parts of the city, leaving predominantly Latino and Black communities with scarce access to medical services.
*Sabrina Moreno, Richmond Times Dispatch, will look into the chronic underfunding of public health departments in Virginia and how that led to a deadly inequity toll on the state's Black and Latino residents.
Yereth Rosen, Arctic Today, will examine the connection between respiratory diseases and inadequate water/wastewater services and housing in rural Alaska, where the population is mostly indigenous. The project will focus on responses and solutions, including new designs appropriate for an Alaska environment undergoing rapid climate change.
Stephen Simpson, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, will analyze health disparities throughout Arkansas, with a focus on the Delta area, where the once thriving cities of Blytheville and Pine Bluff have declined, affecting residents' access to health care.
Center for Health Journalism Fund Grantees
*Donnell Alexander, Capital & Main (freelance), will look at efforts to redress disproportionate drug prosecution in communities of color by providing opportunities to Black entrepreneurs in the cannabis industry. Traditionally, ownership is mostly White, and Blacks have historically been servers, not owners.
Natalie Krebs, Iowa Public Radio, will examine the health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Iowa’s meatpacking industry and its workers, who accounted for thousands of confirmed cases, and what action one of Iowa’s largest industries is taking to protect the health of its workers in the future.
Susie Neilson, San Francisco Chronicle, will focus on health care providers within California’s county jail system.
Jared Rutecki and Casey Toner, Better Government Association (Chicago) and Frank Main, Chicago Sun-Times, will document the hundreds of thousands of arrests over the past decade of people accused of possession of small quantities of narcotics in Cook County, Illinois — and the massive costs to society of those drug cases, which, more often than not, get quickly dismissed.
Sara Satullo, Easton Express-Times, will explore the intersection of the coronavirus pandemic and a housing shortage exacerbated by the gentrification of South Bethlehem. It’s a story where health, race, real estate, urban development, and gentrification all converge.
*Letitia Stein, USA Today, will investigate how nursing homes caring for the elderly and medically fragile lacked adequate protections for their residents and staff during wave after wave of the pandemic.