There is a rising number of Latinos who are living homeless in Los Angeles. According to county reports, Latino homelessness shot up by 63 percent in the past year. Latinos delivered one of the sharpest rises in the homeless population and added more than 7,000 people to the surge. Officials believe that Los Angeles’ rising […]
By Luis Alvarado President of Familias Unidas de California California is blessed with the most diverse, fresh, safe and nutritional produce in the world. Yet, it is heartbreaking that our Latino population suffers from higher than normal rates of obesity, diabetes and heart disease. These health concerns stem largely in food choices we make. Across […]
A new website was launched earlier this year that is the first of its kind in a digital format. Parents Empowered launched a Spanish version of its website that is culture specific for Latinos to empower Latino parents to learn about the dangers of underage drinking. Parents Empowered is funded by the Utah State Legislature […]
According to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, the number of adults without health insurance in the Los Angeles County has dipped below one million. In 2011, there were 1.7 million adults in the Los Angeles County that were uninsured and in 2015 that dropped to 750 million adults without insurance. This decline […]
The National Research Center on Hispanic Children and Families released a study last month that shows that Latino families actually participate more in early care and education (ECE) programs than previously believed. The study focused on Hispanics in the Chicago area, but it provides some insight for other areas with a large Hispanic population. According […]
According to new research conducted by Oregon State University, public health approaches for Latinos may need to be tailored because not all Latinos face the same health challenges. Latinos tend to be lumped together as a singular ethnic/racial group when it comes to health research, but in reality Latinos are a diverse group of different […]
A report by the Urban Institute, a nonprofit group that carries out economic and social policy research, found that geographical factors play a role in how much a state spends on children and that there are substantial differences between states. States in the Southern and Western regions of the United States spend less per child […]
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