Community Safety

Attorney Oliver Sprott heads into a courtroom at the Harris County Juvenile Justice Center. Sprott was appointed to represent lo

Harris County juvenile judges and private attorneys accused of cronyism: 'Everybody wins but the kids'

This story was published with the support of the USC Annenberg National Health Fellowship and the Fund for Journalism on Child Well-Being.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Community Safety

Mai Yang, a Hmong refugee who’s father was killed fighting for the CIA’s “Secret Army,” sits remembering those days in her home

The war inside

Health workers and a younger generation help Hmong elders overcome a devastating past in one Northern California community.

Race and Equity, Environmental Health, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Poverty and Class, Mental Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Chronic Disease, Community Safety

Naloxone kit. (Photo: James Heilman, MD)

Can harm reduction roll back an epidemic of drug-related deaths and disease?

The practice of harm reduction seeks not to shame people who use drugs into giving them up, but simply to provide them with the tools to improve their health.

Poverty and Class, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Community Safety

We placed a sensor inside the home of Cristina Sanchez (L) and her husband Felino Chanax (next to L), in Maywood, in southeast L

How Hot Was It In California Homes Last Summer? Really Hot. Here's the Data

Molly is one of the recipients of the 2018 Impact Fund, a program of USC Annenberg's Center for Health Journalism....

Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Community Safety

Why is Indiana flooded with cases of child abuse and neglect?

Why does Indiana have so many cases of child abuse and neglect? Only six states had more in 2016, and they all had much higher populations.

Environmental Health, Domestic Violence, Community Safety

Peer volunteer Jamie and program coordinator Jessica Smith at the Humboldt Area Center for Harm Reduction.

Drug users fight for acceptance in California’s deep north

Judith Lewis Mernit’s reporting on harm reduction in rural California was supported by the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2018 Impact Fund.

Environmental Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Community Safety, Patient Safety and Ethics

Early childhood advocates see cannabis challenges rise as tobacco sales fall

As more states consider legalizing marijuana, California's First 5 agencies are on the forefront of educating the public about the impacts during pregnancy and in homes with young children.

Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Community Safety

The crisis of chronic absenteeism in rural California

If rural America has become the new “inner city,” then nowhere is this more apparent than in educational systems.

Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Domestic Violence, Community Safety

A woman died last year in a heat wave in this normally cool and foggy west side San Francisco neighborhood. But Parkside, like e

Investigation Finds Home Can Be the Most Dangerous Place in a Heat Wave

Molly is one of the recipients of the 2018 Impact Fund, a program of USC Annenberg's Center for Health Journalism.

Environmental Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Community Safety

Drug Addiction: Controversial ‘harm reduction’ policy may lower death toll of opioids, meth

Harm reduction seeks not to shame people who use drugs into giving them up, but simply to provide them with the tools and support to improve their health.

Poverty and Class, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Community Safety

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Community Safety

Harris County juvenile judges and private attorneys accused of cronyism: 'Everybody wins but the kids'

The war inside

Can harm reduction roll back an epidemic of drug-related deaths and disease?

How Hot Was It In California Homes Last Summer? Really Hot. Here's the Data

Why is Indiana flooded with cases of child abuse and neglect?

Drug users fight for acceptance in California’s deep north

Early childhood advocates see cannabis challenges rise as tobacco sales fall

The crisis of chronic absenteeism in rural California

Investigation Finds Home Can Be the Most Dangerous Place in a Heat Wave

Drug Addiction: Controversial ‘harm reduction’ policy may lower death toll of opioids, meth