Public Health Watch Every day for a solid year, Krystal Nice would check the Social Security Administration website at 5:15 a.m. for updates. She had applied for disability benefits in April 2024, but kept waiting for a decision. With two children and little income or savings, the monthly $1,537 disability check could help her make ends meet, including paying the rent.| Rosalynn Carter Fellowships
KOSU From the panhandle to its eastern border, the opioid crisis has reached every corner of Oklahoma. Visit any of the state's 77 counties, any school district, tribe or community, and you will meet people who have lost a loved one or seen them struggle. The post Oklahoma pulls back curtain on opioid settlement money, but victims’ families still have questions appeared first on Rosalynn Carter Fellowships.| Rosalynn Carter Fellowships
From Public Health Watch and Texas Community Health News About a year after Blanco County launched its community health paramedicine program in 2022, paramedic Wesley Patton was referred to a patient in the local jail. The man had been arrested on terroristic threat charges tied to his substance use.| Rosalynn Carter Fellowships
The Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism awards fellowships to journalists in the U.S. and around the world to report on a mental health topic of their choice.| Rosalynn Carter Fellowships
Invisible Institute, South Side Weekly, and Mindsite News On a gloomy Sunday afternoon in Chicago, Sgt. Andrew Dakuras hopped out of his patrol car in front of a downtown highrise and strolled into the elevator, finishing a text as the doors closed. He rode up to the 31st floor, exited and stopped at the third door on the left. He knocked: tap, tap, tap, tap, tap.| Rosalynn Carter Fellowships
From Inside Appalachia and West Virginia Public Broadcasting In Huntington, West Virginia, Cabell County’s quick response team, or QRT, meets in the upper floor of an Emergency Medical Services building five days a week. Huntington is a small city of 45,000 people on the western edge of West Virginia.| Rosalynn Carter Fellowships
From Searchlight New Mexico New Mexico is the second-largest oil producer in the U.S., behind Texas. Drawing immense wealth from the Permian Basin, the state relies on a workforce — often Latino men — who are subjected to harrowing conditions that lead to death, injury, disease and terrible tolls on mental health and family life.| Rosalynn Carter Fellowships
From SFPublicPress When Chuan Teng looks at San Francisco’s approach to behavioral health care, she sees a fundamental flaw.| Rosalynn Carter Fellowships
From Missoulian/Independent Record Conner Reisinger realized he was different from his classmates in the fifth grade. He was always around other kids, but felt like an outcast and couldn’t put his finger on why.| Rosalynn Carter Fellowships
From Missoulian/Independent Record Erica Parrish never thought she would leave her job as a school counselor, so her decision to quit the role at Belgrade School District was not one she made lightly.| Rosalynn Carter Fellowships
From Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) Vanessa was 32 and pregnant with her first child when a massive stroke left her mother paralyzed and in need of care.| Rosalynn Carter Fellowships
