Jenny Stratton

Ana A. looks towards the Redwood trees during a morning hike with the Latina-led community health group, Somos Remedios, in the Muir Woods in Mill Valley on April 14, 2025.

Ann and Mary, a caregiver, embrace at the group home where Ann resides in Hawthorne. Ann, who is nonverbal, has no living relatives. House aides like Mary are surrogate family members. Ann, one of more than 12 million Americans enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid, relies on these programs for both physical and mental health support.

Living Word of Garden Grove church members pray for Angela during a homeless outreach event in a DMV parking lot in Santa Ana on July 11, 2025.

Valentina Cardenas sits in her bedroom near UC Berkeley’s campus on Monday, May 5, 2025. An undocumented student who came to the U.S. as an infant, Cardenas is two semesters away from completing her bachelor's degree at a prestigious institution she once thought was out of reach and where she struggled to envision herself belonging.

Eboni Moen in the outdoor meditation garden of Sierra Wind Wellness and Recovery Center in Jackson on April 11, 2025. Moen is interning at the center while she prepares to become a therapist.

Many of the inmates of Pine Grove have never had friends from different ethnic backgrounds before arriving at the camp.  Many other Youth Authority camps are heavily segregated by race, but at Pine Grove, most of the racial barriers typically present in prison do not exist.  The prison administration attributes this to the ethic of cooperation and teamwork the boys must embrace if they are going to survive on a fire line.  This sense of unity also provides a rare boost to the mental health of incarcerated youth.

Twins Katia and Karla, students in the 10th grade, use the pool on campus. UCLA Community School shares facilities with five other schools, including cafeterias, the historic Cocoanut Grove Theater, two libraries, gymnasiums, swimming pool, athletic fields, gardens, and several public art installations. The sprawling campus with these shared spaces allows students at UCLA-CS, which is a smaller school, to access facilities, like a swimming pool, which tend to not be available to smaller schools.

Miriam Nuño, a professor of biostatistics at UC Davis, said she has hope that the younger generation of Latinos will be more vocal in advocating for mental health resources than previous generations.

Cassidy holds her child in her apartment in Redding on Sept. 20, 2022. Earlier that day, Cassidy graduated from an intensive outpatient substance treatment program after being sober for nine months and one week.

Birder Sadie Cosby, 17, poses for a photo at Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline in Richmond on April 16, 2025. A member of the California Young Birders’ Club, Sadie has been birding for four years. Participating teens find birding offers tangible benefits, from connecting with fellow enthusiasts to providing relaxation, and deepening their cultural and ecological knowledge.