How police officers handle an escalating situation caused by a mental health crisis can make a big difference in the outcome. Kayleigh's story may explain why.
Poverty and Class
The need for help is clear: The district has received more than 27,000 phone calls asking for help, according to the district's director of student mental health since opening a hotline.
The second of a three-part series for October’s Domestic Violence month, supported by the USC Center for Health Journalism in partnership with Desi Collective, Narika and India Currents.
Unhoused people who use drugs are reversing overdoses and saving hundreds of lives each year.
Nonprofits were less helpful than expected, but Florida school districts helped a journalist find families.
Imagine taking your kids on a trolley to visit the neighborhood park. Now, picture an electric transit system that’s fast and cheap and can take you to work right from your doorstep. What if Fresno could do all that, and reduce the local rate of childhood asthma?
For pregnant individuals facing multiple years in prison, a program offers unexpected hope and an alternative pathway.
This story is part of a series produced for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2021 California Fellowship.
In the second part of this multi-part series, we explore, step-by-step, the process for diverting pregnant people out of LA County’s women’s jail, moving them into housing and toward independence.
Though disabled women now get pregnant and give birth at the same rate as nondisabled ones, modern medicine has largely turned its back on them.