August 2023

(Spectrum News/ Zarina Khairzada) To read more of Zarina Khairzada's article, please click here. LOS ANGELES — Babies in the classroom? That’s a reality for parenting and pregnant students at Learn4Life’s Alta Vista Innovation High School in Inglewood, taking part in the Helping Our Parenting-students Excel (HOPE) Program . The program provides students with a safe space for parents to watch their children as they complete credits needed to graduate. It’s also common to see supervising...

Charmaine Dorsey, director of patient and social support services for the LA County Department of Health Services, is one of the masterminds behind the agency’s integration of behavioral health and social services. Photo: Harrison Hill By J. Duncan Moore, Jr., California Healthcare Foundation, August 17, 2023 When it comes to addressing behavioral health and social needs, Los Angeles County is going big. Its Department of Health Services (DHS) is in the process of executing an ambitious plan...

People Images/Getty Images To read more of George B. Sanchez-Tello's article, please click here. Peggy Melancon, known as Mother Peggy, got on the wrong bus in South L.A. She didn’t recognize her hairdresser. She kept losing her keys. These were the signs of her illness that daughters Jeanie Harris and Sharon Melancon recognized only after Mother Peggy was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, a degenerative brain disease. Mother Peggy would need someone with her all the time, and Harris, Melancon and...