CT Latino News’ series — Hartford Children’s Health: Equitable Access — explores complex systemic and cultural barriers across Connecticut’s capital that impact the health of its youngest residents.
Children & Families
Dr. ChrisAnna Mink shares her growing awareness the trauma than can occur when officials remove children from their “safe parent" — victims of domestic violence who had difficulties leaving abusive romantic partners.
Public schools often refuse to disclose abuse by staff. Local journalists can expose the problem.
With L.A. County fentanyl deaths spiking 1,652% in six years, the stakes of getting the right services to the right place are higher than ever.
A mother, a child, a best friend. The insidious drug took their lives indiscriminately.
A journalist and pediatrician gains a new appreciation for the complicated and difficult choices facing California mothers entangled in violent relationships.
California faces rising utility costs as PG&E and other major companies undertake wildfire prevention projects. Who bears the burden?
The District has the fourth-highest fetal mortality rate in the U.S.
As conversations on how to improve birth and maternal outcomes grow, birth workers like doulas are rising in popularity. The third installment of The Long Road to Maternal Care series breaks down what this profession does and what it means for it to be covered under Medicaid in Nevada.
More than half of Nevada counties do not have a hospital that provides routine labor and delivery and is without an OB-GYN. The first story to kick off the series: The Long Road to Maternal Care.