You can’t cheat time,” said Phil Wesseler, a paramedic in Mono County who has witnessed the devastating impact of opioid use ...

Stockton’s historic city center. Photo by MattGush/iStock Housing affordability and homelessness are a top concern across California communities. Solutions so far have focused on closing the gap ...

Three months later, LA city and county leaders are struggling to expedite debris cleaning that would allow rebuilding to begin. For displaced families with children who have disabilities, starting ...

The Alternatives to PAIN Act will not only improve the health care system, but also the livelihoods of Californians and so many across the country. For every patient I’ve treated who developed ...

A participant shares her experiences during a Sisters Rise Circle gathering. Called the Sisters Rise Circle, the gathering is one of about a dozen circles run by Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, ...

Day laborers or jornaleros stand at work zone sites like this to find temporary jobs for the day. Workers have expressed concerns over their immigration statuses now that Donald Trump has returned to ...

Most domestic violence interventions focus on helping survivors, often requiring them and sometimes their children to upend their lives by seeking shelter and safety. Far fewer resources are dedicated ...

The couple started arguing regularly; sometimes Manuel would leave, sometimes it would be Lupe. Their relationship was in turmoil. And even though Manuel never did anything to make her feel in danger, ...

Author Devon Gaster leads a Men Creating Peace class in San Leandro in 2019. Photo by Ray Casarez I sat in a tiny, crowded cell at the San Francisco County Jail, contemplating how I had ended up there ...

Enhanced Care Management, also called by its initials ECM, offers children and their caregivers a lead care manager tasked with overseeing all of a child’s health care and related services that ...

When I became a single mom, I learned early on that support groups would be the ointment to my soul. I tried a few but Celebrate Recovery, a faith-based program at Oasis LA in Los Angeles was the one ...

All Nirmal Singh and his wife, Daljit Kaur, wanted were a few groceries from Walmart. But as the older couple drove in circles around the suddenly unfamiliar streets of Fresno, Singh feared they’d be ...