Community mourns a leader as annual homeless memorial nears.
Community Safety
Data shows children who are committed under the Baker Act often are referred by school officials. School shootings and other incidents have placed more pressure on officials to intervene.
Are new policies from the nation’s largest group of physicians on race a game changer — or too little too late?
The number of children crossing the southern border is on the rise again. Prince George’s County is helping them cope and learn.
A new pair of housing bills would extend tenant eviction protections through the end of March and introduce a new path to create additional housing in under-utilized, big-box developments.
The number of children who are taken for involuntary psychiatric evaluations in Florida increases every year. This is the first story in a five-part series about how the state's Baker Act affects children.
California sent more than 1,000 vulnerable children to out-of-state facilities run by a for-profit company. Reports of rampant abuse followed. Now, confronted with a Chronicle and Imprint investigation, the state is bringing every child home.
Parents and teachers demanded reviews into the Sheriff’s Office program. Some called for it to be canceled.
A lack of coordination leaves many transition-age youth homeless, hungry, and alone.
This article by Alissa Zhu was produced as a project for the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism, a program of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2020 National Fellowship....