Children & Families

This article was produced as a project for the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism, a program of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.  
Other stories in the series include:
The Children of Central City
The story behind 'The Children of Central City'

Trauma can have a devastating impact on a child’s education. So why have some New Orleans schools failed to address the problem?

How does exposure to violence affect innocent young bystanders? What lasting damage does it cause? The Times-Picayune debuts an ambitous new series.
 

The disaster has been made worse by the number of residents suffering from chronic illnesses and a shortage of doctors.

California's program to help infants and toddlers with developmental delays isn't getting crucial services to kids on time. "It’s been a total nightmare," one parent said.

How OTs who work with children could do more to screen moms for depression and get them help during kids' appointments.

Children living in low-opportunity neighborhoods were four times more likely to visit acute care in a year compared with those in the highest-opportunity hoods, a recent study found.

Alameda County saw a dramatic dip in its black infant mortality rate in the late 2000s. What can we learn from the county's success — and what went wrong since then?

Guadalupe, an undocumented immigrant and mother to a newborn and a 5-year-old, rarely ventures outside her LA home for fear of ICE.

Brain research gives insight into why abused youth are more vulnerable to exploitation—and how we can help them heal.