Legislation eliminates red tape in reuniting children with families or finding new permanent placements. New measure sets up study for a statewide child welfare hot line.
Mental Health
An investigative series exposes the gaps in Georgia's mental health care system that cause thousands of children to be surrendered to state custody.
The last year and a half took a toll on educators who had to pivot to teaching via video, sometimes with their own kids at home.
Trey bounced around from family to foster care and even a group home. Now, one program has turned his life around. Here's why it's not widely available.
About 2% of the country’s 15,000 licensed midwives are Black. In Southern California, there are about 120 licensed midwives, but only seven of them are Black.
Many of LA County’s programs focus on addressing the consequences of intergenerational racism on the health of Black women.
“I think the main word that comes to mind is betrayal,” one student journalist said. “I trusted him and believed in him deeply.”
As part of an 11Alive investigative series, this story examines the gaps in Georgia's system to help children with mental and developmental disabilities.
“We are still trying to understand how it manifests and how it happens,” said Dr. Emnet Gammada, a clinical geriatric neuro-psychology fellow at the UCLA Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior. “What surprises me is how much we know and how much we don’t know.”
This is the second in a series of articles produced by Darlene Donloe, a 2021 California Fellow, on the impact of Alzheimer’s disease on the Black community in Los Angeles.