Apr 13, 2012

Plan for supervision of released prisoners off to a rough start

Supervisors took two months to approve a $4-million housing and transportation contract with the prominent San Francisco-based provider Haight Ashbury Free Clinics-Walden House, in part because the sheriff's and probation departments were arguing over who would oversee the newly released prisoners. Click here for full article

Jan 06, 2012

Few mixed-race marrow donors for boy's transplant

Just a few months ago, 4-year-old Kyle Crawford was a healthy little boy, and if he seemed to bruise pretty easily, his parents weren't worried - he loved to run around at top speed, and sometimes he crashed.

But on a family trip to Disneyland early last month, Kyle woke up several times with blood on his lips. When the family returned home to San Mateo, they took him to his pediatrician, who saw the bruising and bleeding and immediately transferred him to Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. ... More

Oct 27, 2011

Haight Free Clinics-Walden House merger a success

Janice Lane was a wife and mother with a house in San Francisco's Bernal Heights neighborhood and a job teaching child development at City College. But after becoming addicted to painkillers and alcohol following a back injury five years ago, her life started falling apart. Full article