Reporting

Melissa Evans examines the extent of Southern California's hospital backup and emergency room overcrowding.

<p>Family counselor Jorge Ruiz Chacón follows an ancient path to healing. At Western Washington University, he learned the same techniques in college psychology courses that his grandmother taught him. He just learned them in a different way.</p>

<p>The Laotian teenager was hearing voices saying that he needed to die. He wasn't sleeping or eating. He was losing weight. And he was convinced some force was trying to push him from a second-story window.</p>

<p>Part 3 of Alone Among Us</p>

<p>Part 4 of Alone Among Us</p>

<p>The only place 13-year-old Jordan Torres seemed to find comfort was in his darkened bedroom. He remembers feeling the same way, and not knowing why, when he was much younger, just 6 or 7 years old.</p>

<p>Second Part of Alone Among Us&nbsp;</p><p>Sharon Salyer and Alejandro Domínguez’s reporting on the mental health challenges faced by Hispanics is part of a health journalism program offered through the California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships, administered by the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.</p>

<p>She was just 13 when the man tried to rape her. She got away.<br /><br />He came back with a gun, she said, attacking her inside her parents' house in Cuauhtémoc, a town in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico.</p>

<p>Sharon Salyer and Alejandro Domínguez’s reporting on the mental health challenges faced by Hispanics is part of a health journalism program offered through the California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships, administered by the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.</p><p>Cristina Mendez-Diaz, 24, bears the scars of the danger she fled in Mexico. During a deportation hearing, she was unable to speak about her past, and her request for asylum was denied. She has appealed the decision.</p>