The need for help is clear: The district has received more than 27,000 phone calls asking for help, according to the district's director of student mental health since opening a hotline.
Health Equity & Social Justice
The second of a three-part series for October’s Domestic Violence month, supported by the USC Center for Health Journalism in partnership with Desi Collective, Narika and India Currents.
Unhoused people who use drugs are reversing overdoses and saving hundreds of lives each year.
LA Times reporter Sonja Sharp shares "three things I wish nondisabled parents would learn from disabled parents like us."
Nonprofits were less helpful than expected, but Florida school districts helped a journalist find families.
Imagine taking your kids on a trolley to visit the neighborhood park. Now, picture an electric transit system that’s fast and cheap and can take you to work right from your doorstep. What if Fresno could do all that, and reduce the local rate of childhood asthma?
For pregnant individuals facing multiple years in prison, a program offers unexpected hope and an alternative pathway.
This story is part of a series produced for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2021 California Fellowship.
Emily DeRuy reported this story while participating in the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2021 California Fellowship.
Other work by her includes:
COVID forced Bay Area families to make agonizing elder-care decisions. Is there a fix?
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In the second part of this multi-part series, we explore, step-by-step, the process for diverting pregnant people out of LA County’s women’s jail, moving them into housing and toward independence.