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Analysis: Children With Disabilities Have a Right to Health Services in School. Here’s a Guide

A child who needs specialized instruction (special education services) related to a qualifying disability will generally have an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) under IDEA. A child who doesn’t ...
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Opinion: The Crisis Is Real. But the Manosphere Isn’t the Answer

There’s no denying it — many men are struggling. Wages are stagnant. Housing is unaffordable. Suicide and addiction rates are climbing. Loneliness is everywhere. The institutions that once gave men a ...
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Mental Health Care Is Critical for Survivors of Violence. Access Is Another Story

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 ...
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For Those With Severe Mental Illness, Treatment Options Are Often Lacking — But There Are Solutions

For more than 20 years, Jessica Johnson lived on the streets of El Sobrante, Antioch and other cities in Contra Costa County. For a while, she slept behind a bank. Sometimes, she’d find respite in a ...
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Punjabi Residents in Fresno Find a Lifeline in a Community-Led Health Program

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 ...
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Opinion: California’s Rural Hospitals Are in Danger of Closing, But Partnerships with Universities Offer a Solution

UC Davis, center, has programs to provide health care to rural communities statewide. Photo by Hal Bergman/iStock. Every Californian should have access to quality health care, no matter where they ...
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Therapists Want to Provide Affordable Mental Health Care. Here’s What’s Stopping Them

India Gomez knows all too well how difficult it can be to get insurance to cover mental health care. A clinical psychologist in Oakland, she often spends a good part of her workweek chasing down ...
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How Families Are Fighting Racism and Disability Discrimination

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 ...
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This Central Valley Town Has a Carcinogen in its Water. Why Are Solutions So Slow?

This piece is part of a collaboration that includes the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN), Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism, Circle of Blue, Colorado Public Radio, Columbia Insight, ...
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Is This California Housing Program the Ideal Model for Treating People with Severe Mental Illness?

To those who knew him, Noah Silver was a bright, happy child identified as gifted with a penchant for playing instruments. He started playing bass guitar at the age of 11 and picked up acoustic guitar ...
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Opinion: We Need to Keep Free School Meals

When California passed the landmark School Meals for All legislation in 2021, we became the first state in the nation to provide free breakfast and lunch for all K-12 students regardless of income.