Children & Families

This project received support from the Center for Health Journalism's California Fellowship and its Fund for Journalism on Child Well-being.
Other stories in the series include:
 
Black babies die at twice the rate of white babies. My family is part of this statistic
 
America's black babies are pay

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. 

In states such as New Mexico, many kids are put into treatment foster care who should never be there. The programs, run by private companies, vary widely in quality and safety from state to state.

In East St. Louis, the school district is helping parents get back on their feet.

It's one thing to identify the complex social cause of this crisis. It's far harder to combat racism and stop more babies from dying.

Locals are the first to acknowledge that pouring more money into the city isn’t the only answer.

This project received support from the Center for Health Journalism's California Fellowship and its Fund for Journalism on Child Well-being....

Reporter Priska Neely talks to her sister Nicole to talk about the two babies she lost nearly 20 years ago, after going into premature labor both times.

Traumatized children often have difficulties with anger management, impulse control and the processing and retention of information.

With the support of the California Wellness Foundation, the Center for Health Journalism at the USC Annenberg School of Journalism has awarded $30,000 in reporting grants from its new Impact Fund.