Hermes Falcon Urban Health Media Project Urban Health Media Project introduces middle and high school students in underrepresented communities to journalism and teaches them how to cover health and social issue topics that touch their lives. “I want to be a journalist,” says Sreehitha Gandluri, a student at Our Lady of Good Counsel High School...
Month: November 2021
Homeless, Anxious, Depressed and Young
But there’s hope and help when home conflicts, mental health struggles lead to homelessness for 500,000-plus youth each year By Julianne Hill, Caitlyn Hutabarat and Amira Horowitz Urban Health Media Project (Photo: Berri Wilmore) After Jordan DeVega’s grandmother died when he was 16, leaving him without a legal guardian, he was moved in and out...
Facts and Data on Mental Health and Law Enforcement
Blacks were 10% of LA’s population, but 44% of those diagnosed with “serious mental illness.” - 2014 report to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discriminaton (CERD) Committee Review of the United States by Dignity and Power Now. Since 2015, 1,519 people with a history of mental illness have been killed by police in...