A new Medi-Cal benefit called Enhanced Care Management is designed to improve coordination and access to care for children with complex health and social needs. Enrollment in the benefit has grown ...

Mental health care workers are in high demand across California, especially in the rural pockets of the state. In the Eastern Sierra, providers are working to expand their in-person services while ...

The Affordable Care Act has saved countless families with medically complex children, including columnist Jennifer McLelland’s. Her son was born without a functional airway and quickly ...

Residents of the remote Bishop, California, in the Eastern Sierra, must travel more than 200 miles to access in-clinic abortion services. Photos by Lauren DeLaunay Miller Two years ago, California ...

Several years ago, I was talking with a consultant hired by my workplace to evaluate our diversity, equity and inclusion policies. I offhandedly mentioned that many people I knew in my personal life ...

As a victim advocate and survivor of domestic violence, I have had the privilege of learning about and applying the principles of restorative justice in my own life. My journey began 11 years after ...

With the help of a faith-based restorative justice program in Los Angeles I was able to choose forgiveness and find healing for myself and my son. I made a decision that I was not going to raise my ...

Parents of children with fragile, medically complex disabilities are expected to provide the same level of care during emergencies that intensive care units provide, but they’re expected to do it in ...

California residents pay dearly to live in the Golden state. Nearly half of California residents experienced a “high housing cost burden” in 2012, which means that the cost of their housing — ...

Dr. Dimitri Sirakoff is less harried these days. The general medicine doctor and founder of the aptly named Serve the People Community Health Center still dons his white lab coat 90 hours a week. But ...

Traditionally, the housing and health care industries have viewed one another as distinct. This distinction has prohibited us from seeing our broader intersections with economic, social and racial ...