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  • Childhood Trauma Can Have Long-Lasting Health Effects

    By Kenny Goldberg Exposure to trauma and chronic adversity in early childhood can have serious effects on health, behavioral and social outcomes. That’s according to a new report from the non-profit Center for Youth Wellness. The report is based on surveys of more than 27,000 adults by the California Department of Public Health. The report…

  • Intensive Health Program Cuts Costs By 40 Percent

    A program aims to teach the chronically ill in southeastern San Diego, City Heights and National City how to avoid the hospital and better manage their own health. | Video Credit: Nic McVicker, KPBS By Kenny Goldberg Federal officials say the sickest 5 percent of Americans rack up more than half of all healthcare costs.…

  • San Diego Asian Film Festival Turns 15

    San Diego Asian Film Festival trailer | Courtesy of the San Diego Asian Film Festival By Megan Burke and Maureen Cavanaugh Listen to the full KPBS Midday Edition interview with Brian Hu, artistic director of the Pacific Arts Movement, which puts on the festival, and Nahnatchka Khan, executive producer of Fresh Off The Boat. The…

  • Civic San Diego to Draft Community Benefits Policy for City Heights

    Reese Jarrett talks with Myrtle Cole on a vacant lot at Euclid and Hilltop Drive July 25, 2014 | Photo Credit: Nic McVicker, KPBS By Megan Burks A City Council committee that seemed bent on adding government oversight to San Diego’s former redevelopment agency has made an about-face. The Public Safety and Livable Neighborhoods Committee…

  • The Ominous Cloud Hanging Over the Class of 2016

    Lincoln High School Principal John Ross talks with a student. | Photo By Jamie Scott Lytle By Mario Koran San Diego Unified has a huge problem on its hands. Data just released by the district shows troubling news about the class of 2016, the first class being held to new stricter graduation requirements. Among the…