Analysis: It’s Time for Housing Justice for Our Black Communities
My family’s history is deeply shaped by our nation’s history of discriminatory housing policies. I’ve written about my grandfather’s story and about how redlining affected my family. But I never fully...
View ArticleDomestic Violence Survivors Often Don’t Want to Call the Police. California...
In October, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that will fund pilot projects that provide alternative responses to domestic violence. While cities and jurisdictions have launched similar efforts,...
View ArticlePregnant Behind Bars, Part Four: The Mothers
Long before the point of lock-up, the moms now in a Los Angeles diversion program for pregnant incarcerated people said they experienced problems for which they might have gotten assistance — things...
View ArticleHow Midwives and Doulas Are Working to End Birth Disparities
Across California, midwives and doulas are working to increase access to their services to more Black and brown women. Organizations are also raising awareness about the options people have to welcome...
View ArticleOpinion: California Must Step Up to Address Racism as a Public Health Crisis
In California, 34 jurisdictions have declared racism a public health crisis. Governor Newsom, unfortunately, has failed to do so at the state level, just as he failed to support broader investments...
View ArticlePregnant Behind Bars, Part Five: Looking To The Future
The final installment of this five-part series about Los Angeles County’s unique Maternal Health Diversion Program explores the pressing need for LA’s Office of Diversion and Reentry to scale up its...
View ArticleOpinion: Online Learning Doesn’t Work for Low-Income Students Like Me. Here’s...
Our educational system was unequal even before the pandemic. Those inequalities were exacerbated when students transitioned to learning from home. Black, Latinx and Native American students suffered...
View ArticleOpinion: Even During the Surge, Hospitals Must Ensure Immigrant Patients Have...
The Omicron variant has fueled a dramatic spike in COVID-19 cases across the country and Southern California. The rising COVID-19 cases may prompt hospitals and clinics to reinforce visitor...
View ArticleLatinx Families Ask For Equal Services for Their Children With Disabilities
A coalition of Latinx parents is suing Harbor Regional Center, alleging discrimination against Latinx children and adults with disabilities and demanding more services. The lawsuit accuses the center...
View ArticleHere’s Why Many Asian Americans Don’t Get Mental Health Care—And How to Help
In many Asian Americans communities, reluctance to seek mental health care is common. A 2007 study found that less than 9 percent of Asian-Americans sought any type of mental health services compared...
View ArticleOpinion: How to Improve Health? Give All Californians Housing
As a California high school student, I have become aware of one of the biggest health threats facing some of my peers: The lack of a stable home. I believe access to housing is an individual right and...
View ArticleOpinion: We Need Sustainable Funding to End Domestic Violence
California’s education system needs more social, emotional and sexual health education that recognizes the racial and gender identities of young people. Prevention programs can meet this need....
View ArticleAnalysis: It’s Time to Rethink Our Response to Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate partner violence has escalated over the past two years. Research points to economic distress, increased time indoors with abusive partners, and worsening mental health as exacerbating factors....
View ArticleSolutions For the Most Dangerous Part of Pregnancy: Violence in the Home
Across California, organizations are working on anti-violence solutions to improve outcomes for parents and their babies. Efforts include working with physicians to better detect and help pregnant...
View ArticleOpinion: New Medi-Cal Rx Is Riddled With Problems, Hurting Those Who Need it...
Despite warnings that the health of the state’s 14 million Medi-Cal beneficiaries would be threatened, on Jan. 1, California implemented Medi-Cal Rx, a program that stripped pharmacy benefits from...
View ArticleAnalysis: Why California Needs an Oversight Office for Durable Medical Equipment
California’s system for providing durable medical equipment and supplies at home is complicated and difficult to manage, even in normal times. During the COVID-19 pandemic, rationing and supply chain...
View ArticleOpinion: We Can Transform California’s Health Safety Net
One third of all Californians and nearly half of California children depend on Medi-Cal, California’s public health coverage program, for health care. With so many people relying on Medi-Cal for health...
View ArticleDoctor’s Notes: What I’m Seeing in Young Children Who Get COVID
AG is a 2-month-old, healthy chubby baby with “Michelin man” rolls and pinchable cheeks, and he’s my patient. I’m a pediatric intern at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, a safety-net hospital in Los Angeles....
View ArticleMy Animals Saved My Life, But I Almost Lost Them to Domestic Violence
My life changed when I moved away from my hometown in urban Southern California, when I was 27. It was difficult to see it then but being away from my support system meant I had no one close by to turn...
View ArticleHow Families Are Advocating for Children with Disabilities in Foster Care
Many families that foster and ultimately adopt children with disabilities encounter challenges such as receiving insufficient medical supplies to care for the children and incomplete information from...
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