Public officials come under fire for budgets that prioritize law enforcement and shortchange community health and safety.
Mental Health & Trauma
This story is produced as part of a larger project led by Matthew Brannon, a participant in the 2020 California Fellowship.
Kids need help, frank talk, experts say.
Research shows home visiting programs can help prevent child abuse and neglect, improve school readiness, increase the physical and mental wellbeing of moms and kids.
Amid pandemic, young kids with special needs missing out on services
For Survivors of Violen
John Adena's death in custody is one of 25 reported by the Shasta County Jail since 2006 — a number that one former California jail manager and expert witness described as “way too many, obviously.”
Domestic violence, the leading cause of homelessness among women and children, is increasing during the pandemic.
This story is the first in a series exploring the deaths of homeless people in Santa Clara County — who the victims were, how they died and what might be done to save the lives of people few may remember.
An audio-first docuseries exploring what it means to be a Black person having a baby in the United States today.
Journalists have been arrested, shot with rubber bullets, and sprayed with tear gas and pepper spray as protests have engulfed the nation in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police. The arrest of CNN Correspondent Omar Jimenez during a live shot in Minneapolis was only the most visib
"My grief and frustration over JJ’s fate were compounded by all I learned about the effects of toxic stress on a developing brain."