Refugees need help with mental health care, but are they getting it? A reporter plots a deeper exploration of their plight.
Mental Health & Trauma
COVID-19 has underscored the disparities faced by immigrant communities in access to medical care and financial support in the state.
Two days before her 22nd birthday last fall, Dominique Green was at the Rocklin Police Department reporting a rape, still shaken from a violent incident with a former coworker the night before.
Crippling anxiety and depression, lost loved ones, selling sex acts to survive — vulnerable teens are facing a world of pain during the pandemic, explains Dr. Angela Diaz.
Child welfare agencies use a shadow system to remove kids from their parents’ care. Nobody knows how many children are placed this way or what happens to them in new homes.
Amid the pandemic, changes to the county’s needle exchange programs are on hold.
Advocates and experts are worried there may not be enough families willing to take children in.
Friendship Line California relieves loneliness for older adults isolated at home. That makes it easier to stay there.
Public officials come under fire for budgets that prioritize law enforcement and shortchange community health and safety.
This story is produced as part of a larger project led by Matthew Brannon, a participant in the 2020 California Fellowship.