Now, Raya is a parent lead for Family Service Alliance, a coalition of over 40 nonprofits that works to end child abuse.

Aging does not have to mean living in fear of falls. California’s older adults deserve clear pathways to early mobility ...

The state is working with health care providers and Medi-Cal managed health plans to prepare for the influx of new patients, Cava said. However, many clinics contacted by the California Health Report ...

Lisbet wondered if the victim advocate had made a mistake. Lisbet was at the Family Justice Center in San Diego, a social services agency for domestic violence survivors, trying to get help with basic ...

The first time Cat Brooks sought help from the police to deal with her violent husband was also the last. She was a 19-year-old college student, married to a man 10 years her senior. One night, after ...

Students walking to class on the U.C. Berkeley campus. Berkeley offers support for students experiencing intimate-partner violence. Photo by Kirkikis/iStock. Relationship violence threatens not only ...

First, they stare. They are sitting, face-to-face, in a cinder block box of a room designed for attorney visits. It stinks of sweat and fear. The prisoner — a young man who as a teen took part in a ...

Nina stared at the job listing. She felt as though it had been written just for her. A new, multidisciplinary center for survivors of domestic violence was opening in northern San Diego County. The ...

Ever since her son, Landon, was born three years ago, Nakenya Allen has been fighting. Fighting to get a diagnosis for the cause of Landon’s digestive problems, which landed him in the emergency room ...

A monitoring program tracks toxic cyanobacteria and influences change. This piece is part of a collaboration that includes the Institute for Nonprofit News, California Health Report, Center for ...

I sat in a tiny, crowded cell at the San Francisco County Jail, contemplating how I had ended up there. This was not supposed to happen to someone like me — a successful businessman from a ...