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.
How are school systems coping with large influxes of immigrant children? A reporter reflects on lessons learned.
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.
A reporter reflects on lessons learned from an especially challenging story.
It’s time to get good at talking about mental health.
This story was produced as a larger project by Tim O'Shei for the 2020 National Fellowship, which focuses on explaining the myriad mental health challenges refugees face and taking readers up close to those realities through the experience of families....
As Chicago once again faces a historic increase in violence, a reporter seeks to understand how the pandemic is affecting shooting survivors.