For Lisbet Pérez, the restorative justice framework helped her family heal after leaving an abusive relationship. Through the process, she learned that her family could grow and heal through their ...

Columnist Marjorie Coffey warns of the pitfalls many organizations fall into, and gives advice for how to be more inclusive and welcoming.

For Lisbet Pérez, the restorative justice framework helped her family heal after leaving an abusive relationship. Through the ...

Victims of Crime Act funding is the largest funding source for victims’ services throughout California and the country. But it’s in jeopardy. If California doesn’t allocate additional funds, grants to ...

Modeled after AmeriCorps, the program would recruit high school or college graduates to spend a year providing nonmedical care to seniors with cognitive impairment.

As cries to “defund the police” reverberate across the country, cities are looking at ways to shift funds from policing into communities. In California, tax revenues from marijuana should be a clear ...

When adults interact directly with babies—such as by talking, reading and singing to them—those children have larger vocabularies at age three, better learning levels as they enter kindergarten, and a ...

Native American seniors are much less likely than other racial and ethnic groups to receive hospice and palliative care, but a new partnership between a Capay Valley tribe in Yolo County and a local ...

Californians want their state legislators and the governor to balance the budget. But voters also want to control the way lawmakers spend much of the money sent to Sacramento. That contradiction is ...

Adults with disabilities no longer qualify for the same care, services and programs that they did as children. Instead, youth who turn 18 and their families must tackle a long checklist of tasks. Yet ...

California is experiencing a worsening shortage of doctors in rural and low-income communities, in part because of decades-old laws that no longer serve our needs. I have worked as a “country doctor” ...

Today, there are 77 health care districts across California, providing care for tens of millions of people, mostly in rural areas. Inyo County, where Bishop is located, now has two. But few community ...