Educators in low-income communities embraced meditation as a way to help students manage stress and anxiety in school. Can it help kids cope with being stuck at home?
Mental Health & Trauma
In one of the many cruelties of COVID-19, elderly Americans most at risk of dying from the disease are also more likely to experience crushing loneliness and isolation. The stakes go beyond mental health: Loneliness is a predictor of functional decline and death. Isolation was already a growing prob
In our highly connected world, abusers use technology against victims to monitor, threaten, harass, and hurt them.
The lack of consistency in screening abuse reports is concerning enough for state legislators to consider changes to North Carolina’s system.
This story was produced as a larger project by Valeria Fernandez for the 2020 National Fellowship, which focuses on how indigenous, immigrant communities and people of color have been organizing before and during the pandemic in communities of care to find support and healing....
It’s been called trading custody for care — the belief that the state can offer something the parents cannot.
Families share experiences of living through the pandemic and what help they still need.
A review of thousands of pages of inspection records, incident reports, complaints and emails shows licensors are reluctant to step in when youth facilities have faced troubling accusations of rampant child abuse.
Two WBEZ education reporters share how a family and a teacher are coping with remote learning.
Emerging research on toxic stress sheds light on entrenched disparities and points to new interventions. It’s fertile ground for powerful human stories.