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How one reporter traced a community’s health problems to widespread childhood trauma

Emerging research on toxic stress sheds light on entrenched disparities and points to new interventions. It’s fertile ground for powerful human stories.

Environmental Health, Poverty and Class, Mental Health
A nurse takes a swab sample from a Navajo Indian woman complaining of virus symptoms at a COVID-19 testing center at the Navajo

Cultural traditions carry American Indians, Alaska Natives through COVID-19 — and create risks

Tribes are finding strength and solutions in culture and tradition amid the devastation of COVID-19.

Race and Equity, Mental Health
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Your Guide to Using Health Insurance to Get Mental Health Care

From patient rights to resources for understanding and using health insurance for mental health care, this guide explains what you need to know.

Poverty and Class, Health Insurance and Costs, Mental Health, Patient Safety and Ethics
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How I reported on the Bay Area’s homeless population during the pandemic

Hard-earned tips on how to stay nimble when current events supplant your grand reporting plans.

Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Housing and Homeslessness
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Why you should start reporting on California’s problems with children in mind

Many of the topics we report on every day benefit when viewed through a child-focused lens.

Environmental Health, Poverty and Class, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Mental Health
Sexual assault survivor Dominique Green joined a “cohort” of survivors who helped inform and shape CapRadio’s reporting on the i

How letting sources lead transformed my reporting on survivors of sexual assault

Why the traditional journalistic process does not always work well for those repeatedly betrayed by people they thought had their best interests in mind.

Mental Health, Domestic Violence, Patient Safety and Ethics
J. Lee, 38, was detained over the summer at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center for overstaying a tourist visa. While there, he s

California police got hundreds of calls about abuse in private ICE detention centers. Cases were rarely prosecuted

An investigation reveals a system in which violence can be perpetuated against detainees with impunity, both by other detainees and facility staff.

Race and Equity, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Mental Health, Community Safety, Patient Safety and Ethics
(Photo by Jacob Pierce)

Environmentalist’s Take on the San Lorenzo River Homeless Camps

Coastal Watershed Council leader on Santa Cruz’s homeless impacts.

Environmental Health, Poverty and Class, Health Insurance and Costs, Mental Health, Housing and Homeslessness, Food and Nutrition, Patient Safety and Ethics
The Salt Lake Tribune is raising money to get inspection reports and sustained complaints for every youth residential treatment

Why we raised money to get reports on Utah’s ‘troubled teen’ treatment centers

This is The Salt Lake Tribune’s first attempt at crowdfunding. We are trying to raise $10,000. With that money, we’ll get records on treatment centers, and we’ll build a database to make them available to all for free.

Mental Health, Community Safety
Farm laborers arrived for their shift in April in Greenfield, California.

The need to work and scant supports fuel COVID-19 disparities among Latinos

Even when sick, immigrant workers often feel like they have no choice but to show up at the job — they have to work to survive.

Race and Equity, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Mental Health

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