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In Bakersfield, Clinica Sierra Vista serves as a lifeline for thousands navigating Medi-Cal cuts, immigration fears, and a healthcare system that has left undocumented Californians locked out.
Indigenous Angelenos speaking Zapotec, Mixtec, or K'iche' face a triple language barrier in healthcare — and immigration raids are making an already impossible situation more dangerous.
Native Californian medical students are reclaiming healthcare for their communities — one pipeline program at a time — as AI/AN life expectancy sits nearly a decade below the national average.
A child who speaks confidently at school can go quiet the moment they walk through their own front door. Same family. Same house. Two very different realities. When Respect Becomes Silence explores the generational communication gap inside Korean immigrant families — and what happens when that silence is finally broken.
A Fresno vendor and breast cancer survivor faces doubled health insurance premiums after federal ACA subsidies expired, showing the human cost of the policy change across California's Central Valley
Breast cancer among AAPI women under 50 surged 52% since 2000. Immigration, westernization, and cultural barriers to screening put Indian American women at hidden risk—but disaggregated data is scarce.
Mental health experts are concerned about what these enforcement actions are doing to children.
Many families with unstable housing describe the process of qualifying for housing support ins San Francisco as opaque and emotionally exhausting.
A senior couple faces eviction from an affordable housing complex amid Sacramento County's failure to address 'renovictions' that advocates say intensify the affordable housing crisis.
Undocumented domestic violence survivors face abuse and deportation fears. Advocates say reporting can protect lives and open legal pathways, despite long visa backlogs and rising immigration anxiety.
