Sweet Home Alabama: My Love-Hate Relationship With My Home State
Just two hours away, teens like myself are growing up in a county with one of the lowest life expectancies in the U.S.
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Access to Healthcare is Access to Life
Meet Risa Padilla, 18, from Oakland. Risa has asthma, severe allergies, and a rare condition called AMPS (amplified musculoskeletal pain syndrome). AMPS is an abnormal pain reflex. Even a mild pain signal can be extremely painful.
Youth Radio Podcast: Healthcare
Young people are often thought of as the healthy ones, but healthcare matters to us too. Obviously!
Loving Your Disability
In her early teens, Christie Levine had to reconcile herself with her chronic scoliosis. In coming to terms with her disability, she also became an athlete.
‘My Health Shouldn’t Have a Price Tag’ – DACA Youth Turned Away for Medi-Cal
I know it’s my health and that my health shouldn’t have a price tag, but it does and I’m not the one who put it there.”
Undocumented, Uninsured, And In Debt For Life
How much does it cost to live? $200,000. That’s what Jorge Toledano discovered when he opened his mother’s hospital bill.