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Project: Pincus Family Foundation gives $500,000 grant for Tulane program aimed at curbing New Orleans violence
Tulane University announced Wednesday that the Pincus Family Foundation, a nonprofit created in 2005, awarded a $550,000 grant to the school to create an interdisciplinary program aimed at preventing the violence that plagues New Orleans' streets.
Project: The Times-Picayune wins National Press Foundation award for ‘Children of Central City’
“The Children of Central City,” a NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune multimedia series examining the long-term impact of trauma on New Orleans’ children, has won the National Press Foundation’s Carolyn C. Mattingly Award for Mental Health Reporting.
Project: New Orleans City Council urges schools to address trauma in student lives
The New Orleans City Council unanimously approved a resolution calling for the city's public and private schools to address the role of trauma in the lives of their students.
Project: City leaders call attention to 'Children of Central City'
This article was produced as a project for the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism, a program of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism. 
Project: All of us must work to heal traumatized children | Opinion
This article was produced as a project for the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism, a program of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism. 
Project: The deepest wounds are those we don't see | Opinion
Project: How exposure to violence can be toxic to a child's brain and body
Traumatized children often have difficulties with anger management, impulse control and the processing and retention of information.
Project: More rescue efforts are needed in Central City | Opinion
This article was produced as a project for the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism, a program of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.
Project: The Children of Central City
For the young boys on the New Orleans' Davis Park football team, it’s not a matter of if they’ve been exposed to violence — it’s how often.
Project: A football coach haunted by the deaths of 28 former players fights to save the next generation
Twenty-eight former Panthers players were killed in a 14-year span in New Orleans. Former coach Jerome Temple is trying to halt the deaths.

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The children of New Orleans’ Central City were finally getting the attention they needed — then reporters lost their jobs
"Momentum seemed to be building. And then … nothing." more »
posted 05/19/20
A lucky break after long hours for two reporters' series on childhood trauma
The team tells how they wrapped their arms around a huge story: the impact of violence on... more »
posted 11/16/18
Reporting on children living in New Orleans' 'Triangle of Death'
Times-Picayune reporter Jonathan Bullington offers a behind-the-scenes look at his reporting with... more »
posted 01/23/18

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Project: Pincus Family Foundation gives $500,000 grant for Tulane program aimed at curbing New Orleans violence
Tulane University announced Wednesday that the Pincus Family Foundation, a nonprofit created in 2005, awarded a $550,000 grant to the school to create an interdisciplinary program aimed at preventing the violence that plagues New Orleans' streets.
Project: The Times-Picayune wins National Press Foundation award for ‘Children of Central City’
“The Children of Central City,” a NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune multimedia series examining the long-term impact of trauma on New Orleans’ children, has won the National Press Foundation’s Carolyn C. Mattingly Award for Mental Health Reporting.
Project: New Orleans City Council urges schools to address trauma in student lives
The New Orleans City Council unanimously approved a resolution calling for the city's public and private schools to address the role of trauma in the lives of their students.