The promotores already have the trust of their communities, filling gaps in public health information through translation, providing COVID-19 testing, referrals for vaccinations, and responding to the direct needs of their community with cultural understanding.
As communities emerge from the pandemic, local thought leaders are asking whether this is a turning point that could trigger a revolution that changes local food systems for the better.
Every Friday afternoon from 3 to 6 p.m., the parking lot of St. Andrew's United Methodist Church on Alma Street in Palo Alto becomes a drive-thru food aid hub.
How a federal program to help farmers during the pandemic is changing the local food landscape
We, the housed, worried about our jobs, food, gas, family, friends, and our future during the pandemic. The homeless did not get a chance to think about any of that.
The pandemic challenged child nutrition leaders to rethink strategies for getting school meals to those in need.
This story is part of a larger project, Troubled Water: The Salton Sea Project, led by Angela Chen in where she examines the health and environmental risks linked to the decline of the Salton Sea.
Over the past five years, hundreds of California drinking water systems have suffered damage or destruction amid the state’s increasingly intense climate-driven wildfires.
In Santa Clara County, homeless deaths are skyrocketing while the homeless population has not substantially changed.
The colonias of south Texas have been devastated by the pandemic, a crisis made worse by poverty and limited access to health care.
