After struggling to get treatment for her mentally ill son, a mother’s act of desperation: Giving up custody.
This story was produced as a project for the 2019 California Fellowship, a program of USC Annenberg's Center for Health Journalism.
As women and mothers, we are astonished at the reported conditions. But as pediatricians, we are deeply concerned about the long-term health impacts of these kids are likely to face.
Correspondent Michael Hill reported this story with the support of the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism, a program of the University of Southern California Center for Health Journalism.
Correspondent Michael Hill reported this story with the support of the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism, a program of the University of Southern California Center for Health Journalism.
What began as a murder of a black man in a Midwestern town in 1959 spiraled into a pattern of racial violence and trauma visited on one family over successive generations.
District officials in Washington, D.C. are working on creating trauma-informed schools. But how effective has the effort been at reducing excessive absences and failing grades?
Exposure to domestic abuse can change how children view relationships, with effects that last a lifetime.
Today’s San Francisco is both a microcosm of the challenge facing African-American public school students and a beacon for potential change.
A shortage of Native foster families has led to pain, lawsuits, and echoes of a painful history.
