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Call in the Doula: When Your Pregnant Students Need More

By Anna Limontas-Salisbury ● Health & Science ● May 31, 2016

The Brooklyn Library’s young adult literacy program includes workshops on stop-and-frisk policing, urban farming and HIV/AIDS. But we needed to offer more to young women with unexpected pregnancies and lots of concerns.

Sierra Leone's Breast Cancer Taboo Stalls Diagnoses

By Anna Limontas-Salisbury ● Health & Science ● February 4, 2014

Even if women do get diagnosed in time, getting treatment is costly and can mean heading to Ghana. On World Cancer Day, Anna Limontas-Salisbury delves into the major challenges in lowering breast cancer rates in this West African country.

Nonviolent Parent Spent Year Reuniting Family

By Anna Limontas-Salisbury ● Uncategorized ● December 30, 2013

The Detroit mother of five had no idea that her household was about to split up when child welfare authorities called her in for a meeting. The leader of a local advocacy group says the system has a problem when it focuses on the nonviolent adult.

When Kinship Care Fails, Custody Hopes Collapse

By Anna Limontas-Salisbury ● Uncategorized ● December 19, 2013

In the world of Child Protective Services, it's never simple when family members step in to care for relatives' children and keep them out of foster care. Sometimes the process can make a fractured family, broken.

Impoverished Mom Lost in Milwaukee Family Court

By Anna Limontas-Salisbury ● Uncategorized ● January 26, 2013

Dulce Guerrero lost her job and home a year ago. Now she feels abused by Milwaukee's family court system for taking away her parental custody rights. “There is no help for poor families when they are falling apart,” says a woman close to the case.

Education Rules for Pregnant Moms Widely Ignored

By Anna Limontas-Salisbury ● Uncategorized ● August 9, 2012

Title IX is widely known for opening up sports opportunities to U.S. female students but application of the 40-year-old law still has a long way to go when it comes to the educational rights of pregnant students.

Welfare Recipients Enjoy Bright Spots of Support

By Anna Limontas-Salisbury ● Arts & Culture ● September 10, 2010

Welfare recipients say a sense of isolation often comes with the predicament of needing public assistance. But there are activist leaders and support groups out there helping to battle that lonely, outcast feeling.

Welfare Job Rules Hit Women With Disabilities

By Anna Limontas-Salisbury ● Employment ● August 31, 2010

Petra Rodriguez lost her welfare benefits when she injured her back and couldn't keep her welfare work assignment. A Legal Aid lawyer says situations like hers help explain why the rolls have dropped-people are just discouraged from applying.

Need Welfare in Bronx? Come Back Tomorrow, Maybe

By Anna Limontas-Salisbury ● Employment ● July 23, 2010

Welfare caseloads have dropped steeply in recent decades, but some applicants in the South Bronx-one of the poorest communities in the country-say that's not a sign of winning the battle over poverty. It's about applicants feeling discouraged and disrespected in the waiting room.

Scholarships Help Work Around Welfare Limits

By Anna Limontas-Salisbury ● Politics ● June 7, 2010

The Patsy Takemoto Mink Fellowship each year extends grants of $2,000 to assist low-income women to achieve an educational objective. Brittney Ferara used the money to rent an apartment, where she now has a safe, quiet place to study.

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