Kemberly Mahiri shows me one of the hundreds of thank you cards she and other counselors for Sonoma County's Teen Parent Program have received. “It just chokes me up every single time,” Mahiri tells me.
Environment & Climate
This story was produced as part of a larger project led by Monica Vaughan, a participant in the 2019 California Fellowship.
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The largest psychiatric facility in Sonoma County is not a hospital. It’s the jail.
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Climate change is fueling increasingly extreme weather events, and someone needs to defend communities against them and clean up after them. In California, that person is often a low-wage immigrant worker.
As I searched and learned about the silent, naturally occurring gas produced from the breakdown of uranium that can cause lung cancer, I became more concerned.
Two children are born in Tallahassee: one lives in the ZIP code 32304, the other in 32312. They only live 24 miles apart, yet their experiences growing up are as if they were born in separate countries.
In the void of failed government programs, health workers are trying new ways to tackle high rates of asthma on Native American reservations.
In Philadelphia, the number of black children under age 5 diagnosed with type 1 diabetes has shot up 220% since the mid-1980s — and no one knows why.