When a reporter delved into the “hidden foster care” system, she found more questions than answers.
Children & Families
A Wyoming treatment center where California had long sent troubled youth will shut down in March, following a Chronicle and Imprint investigation into violent abuse at its campus and others operated by Sequel Youth & Family Services.
"For years, I avoided stories I deemed too personal. Until the day I couldn’t."
The school district shares student data with the Sheriff’s Office, which uses it to identify potential future criminals.
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.
Over the past five years, hundreds of California drinking water systems have suffered damage or destruction amid the state’s increasingly intense climate-driven wildfires.
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.
Shawn Thierry can’t recall the moment she gave birth, but she does remember how she almost died.