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Children & Families

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Chief clinical officer of Health Leads implores journalists to go deeper on homelessness

Dr. Damon Francis doesn’t shy away from sparring with a room full of journalists when he thinks the media is getting the story wrong.

Mental Health, Housing and Homeslessness
One-month-old baby Alexander rests in his mother’s arms during a group therapy session for women and mothers dealing with substa

Births of drug-exposed babies are soaring in California, but their fates are tough to track

What happens to the growing number of drug-exposed babies? Answers "proved maddeningly difficult to tease out — much harder than we expected," writes reporter Teri Sforza.

Latrelle Huff with her ex-boyfriend and their twins at the babies’ baptism in 2014. (Photo: Family photo via USA TODAY)

A terrifying story of domestic abuse posed agonizing challenges for USA Today team

How a reporting team overcame countless hurdles to tell a new story of how children are affected by the family violence they experience, from the time they are in utero through childhood and after.

Community Safety
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A mother’s anguish drives podcast series on toxic pesticide

Three children belonging to the same set of parents, with a combined four brain malformations that doctors say are unrelated. “The doctors are wrong,” says the mother.

Environmental Health, Women's and Maternal Health
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California’s kids face long-term health consequences from devastating wildfires

Over a year after devastating fires, many families still struggle from both the initial trauma and the aftermath of the blaze.

Mental Health
High school seniors Kamiah Brown and Benjamin Bennett, emcees of the African American Honor Roll celebration, review the program

African American honor roll student says when teachers set the bar high, ‘you gotta go get it'

The series has received support from the Fund for Journalism on Child Well-Being, a program of USC's Center for Health Journalism....

Race and Equity
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USC Annenberg to offer health journalism training, reporting grants to California journalists

We're happy to announc the selection of 23 California journalists to be Fellows with the Center for Health Journalism’s annual California Fellowship. They will join us next week.

Mental Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform
Cristine Pagan helps her son Dean with reading homework at a local library. When Dean started first grade at Comly Elementary la

How two reporters became ‘armchair environmental scientists’ for series on toxic lead in Philly

A dynamic team blended traditional street reporting with innovative scientific testing for a hard-hitting series on how the city's schoolchildren are being poisoned by lead.

Environmental Health, Community Safety
Agency Proposes New Limits on Time Kids Spend in Arkansas Jails

Agency Proposes New Limits on Time Kids Spend in Arkansas Jails

Soon, Arkansas won’t jail kids for longer than six months, in most cases, state officials said Friday.

Environmental Health
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Why it makes more sense to care for kids and parents at the same time

For parents of children with complex diagnoses, it's easy to forget or ignore their own health needs. So why don't we do more to make it easier for the whole family to access care at the same time?

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