This article was produced as a project for the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism, a program of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.
Other stories in the series include:
The Children of Central City
The story behind 'The Children of Central City'
How a Central City couple plans to save their neighborhood — one football team at a time.
Trauma can have a devastating impact on a child’s education. So why have some New Orleans schools failed to address the problem?
Rates of PTSD soar among Central City children, yet state budget cuts prevent access to mental health care.
How does exposure to violence affect innocent young bystanders? What lasting damage does it cause? The Times-Picayune debuts an ambitous new series.
Hurricane Katrina forced New Orleans' remaining gangs into the Central City neighborhood. With this mass concentration of drug traffickers came a bloody turf war, near-daily shootings and a rising body count.
Candince McMillian knew little about New Orlean's Central City neighborhood before she bought her home. Then two bullets ripped through her front door.
