By Helen Afrasiabi
The Santa Ana Unified School District is launching a school safety measure with a grant of nearly $500,000, awarded by the Department of Justice, with efforts aimed at kids at risk for gang involvement.
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By Lynn Graebner
The SPCA for Monterey County is pairing at-risk youth in Salinas with at-risk dogs, and the benefits are blooming on both ends of the leash.
By Chris Richard
Hospitals, mobile clinics and churches are collaborating in the Imperial Valley to spread basic and preventative medical care.
By Helen Afrasiabi
At a primary care clinic in Santa Ana, doctors remain dedicated to family medicine, despite dwindling funds and an undervaluing of the specialty.
By Heather Gilligan
Residents don’t want to talk to police after a mass shooting in Oakland that claimed a child’s life – a reluctance that’s common after a high profile crime. The reasons for their hesitation are much more complicated than not wanting to “snitch.”
By Melissa Flores
Medicare reimbursements don’t cover the full cost of end-of-life care for the elderly, and a foundation on the Central Coast is helping to fill in the gaps.
By Genevieve Bookwalter
School nurses once provided critical preventative care for students, noticing when kids were bullied, or suffered from chronic hunger or child abuse. Now, with the ranks of school nurses thinning, the focus is on critical care.
By Callie Shanafelt
Foreclosed homes can create a blight problem in some neighborhoods in Oakland. But the city agency charged with managing blight may be making the problem worse by leveling sanctions against new homeowners who are trying to fix up once-abandoned properties.
By Rebecca Wolfson
It started in 2001, and mostly affected the very young and the very old. Peoples’ hair would fall out, their skin would break out in rashes and their eyes would turn red after showers.
“That was how people were hurt on the outside,” said Horacio Amezquita, manager of the San Jerardo Cooperative. “On the inside, we don’t know.”
Amezquita, a former farm worker, lives at the cooperative, which houses about 250 low-income people. Many of the residents work on nearby farms that use nitrogen-based fertilizers to help crops grow.
By Jessica Chang
Low-income seniors who struggle to afford housing and medicine sometimes try to save money by drastically cutting their food budget. The Senior Brown Bag Program, run by Merced’s food bank, helps elders with a bi-monthly supply of food.