Oct 21, 2024 · This means that community members with marginalized identities and experiences may not feel safe accessing information and training about domestic violence or mediation from a formal organization, let alone participating in services themselves.

Dec 17, 2024 · Photo by iStock/FG Trade Latin. It’s that time of year, filled with Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa and New Year celebrations. For many people, the holidays are an opportunity to come together with family and foster connections and belonging.

Dec 6, 2024 · Pediatric specialists often earn less than general pediatricians, even though they have undergone three years of additional training, leading fewer future physicians to seek out this line of work. General pediatricians are among the lowest-paid doctors in the country, largely because of low federal reimbursements for care. The result is a physician shortage, with children in rural areas ...

Oct 28, 2024 · The Rural Health Women’s Clinic in Bishop, California, provides health care to most of the community’s women but does not provide elective abortion services.

Oct 9, 2024 · “They are the most accountable form of health care that a community could have,” Association Senior Legislative Advocate Sarah Bridge said. Unlike private hospitals or clinics, each district’s finances must be made publicly available, and if a community member wants to voice their opinion about the services of their health care district, they can attend a …

Twenty-seven years ago, Devon Gaster was in jail, but had started down a path that would change his life forever. Devon’s experience healing himself and his family through restorative justice has taught him that being accountable taking responsibility makes it …

American adults are eating better, making better use of available nutrition information, and consuming fewer calories from fat, saturated fat and cholesterol and eating more fiber, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service. Considering the ...

Oct 27, 2015 · At the police station, Andrea and the children were interviewed. She left with an emergency restraining order against the father. One week later, the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services filed a welfare petition on behalf of the children, alleging they were in danger and both parents were responsible — the father for his violent conduct, and the mother for her ...

The holiday season is further adding to social isolation and feelings of loneliness many seniors have experienced during COVID-19. Many won’t be able to celebrate the holidays with loved ones and some have lost spouses or other family members to the virus.

Claudia Boyd-Barrett, Senior Reporter. Claudia is a long-time journalist based in Southern California. Her investigative stories on domestic violence and access to mental health care have resulted in legislative and policy changes, on both the state and county level. Her stories have won dozens of awards and appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Sacramento Bee and the San Francisco Chronicle ...