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Homeless. Jail. Sexually exploited. The Game of Life never talked about this.

An investigative series exposes the gaps in Georgia's mental health care system that cause thousands of children to be surrendered to state custody.

Mental Health, Community Safety, Patient Safety and Ethics
Guadalupe Muñoz with her daughter Carla in their East Oakland apartment.

When home makes you sick: Children in Oakland are suffering from mold, pests, and toxic dust

Families, health and housing experts, and tenants’ attorneys say improving housing conditions is an uphill battle.

Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Community Safety
The Community Lead Advocacy Program (CLAP) brought vaccines to a homeless encampment in the Valley Hi area. Javon Coleman was am

Sacramento’s Black community takes charge of its own health, vaccinations

How local leaders have taken vaccine distribution in underserved communities into their own hands.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Community Safety
Prompted by pandemic challenges, some LAUSD teachers are making the difficult decision to leave the profession.

‘The hardest goodbye I've ever had to make’: LAUSD teachers share why they quit

The last year and a half took a toll on educators who had to pivot to teaching via video, sometimes with their own kids at home.

Poverty and Class, Mental Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Community Safety
A 2011 photo shows residents of Pitkas Point, Alaska wearing breathing apparatus transfer human waste to a collection bucket, wh

How COVID is helping spur big investment in Alaska water and sanitation services

The bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed the U.S. Senate includes $3.5 billion for water and sanitation, some of which will go to rural Alaska villages.

Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Food and Nutrition
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Teen finds team to score touchdown in life: How new DFCS program could prevent child abandonment

Trey bounced around from family to foster care and even a group home. Now, one program has turned his life around. Here's why it's not widely available.

Poverty and Class, Mental Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Community Safety, Patient Safety and Ethics
Midwife Racha Tahani Lawler sits in the space in her garden on Tuesday, July 6, 2021 where she meets with women.

Pregnant during Pandemic: Black midwives in demand; are there enough to handle influx of clients?

About 2% of the country’s 15,000 licensed midwives are Black. In Southern California, there are about 120 licensed midwives, but only seven of them are Black.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Women's and Maternal Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Mental Health
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As state laws take aim at trans youth, use these tips and insights to bolster your reporting

A researcher, advocate and journalist share a terminology primer, policy updates and ideas for coverage.

Known and suspected breaches in the Upper Claiborne Confining. Unit, identified by the Center for Applied Earth Science and Engi

5 things to know: How polluted streams interact with the Memphis Sand aquifer

This story is part of a larger project led by Sarah Macaraeg, a 2019 Data Fellow who is investigating the disproportionate number of asthma diagnoses and severe symptoms among Memphis children.

Environmental Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Food and Nutrition
Dennis touches their son as Aysha rests in the birthing bath at Kindred Space LA’s South LA birthing center on Mother’s Day nigh

Pregnant during pandemic: Programs, midwives step up to support Black mothers

Many of LA County’s programs focus on addressing the consequences of intergenerational racism on the health of Black women.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Women's and Maternal Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Mental Health, Patient Safety and Ethics

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