A Wyoming treatment center where California had long sent troubled youth will shut down in March, following a Chronicle and Imprint investigation into violent abuse at its campus and others operated by Sequel Youth & Family Services.
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The school district shares student data with the Sheriff’s Office, which uses it to identify potential future criminals.
In the future, pediatricians may turn to biomarkers to flag dangerous levels of stress in children.
The virus has already devastated Camarillo’s family, killing her father and destabilizing the entire family. They say they can’t take any more.
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California will spend more than $8 million to find safer homes for children returning from troubled out-of-state residential programs, in response to a recent investigation into rampant reports of abuse at the facilities.
California farmworkers have been hit especially hard by the virus, as they often live in overcrowded housing, travel in groups to work, and lack access to health insurance.
These groups, and others, will need to drop their opposition to vaccination for the shots to work statewide.
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