In rural Wyoming County, West Virginia, Ann Reed is the sheriff’s department’s only social worker. Funded through a temporary ...

For two hours every Thursday and Friday, Randall Brown gathers a handful of people in front of a whiteboard. They sit on a ...

As millions in opioid settlement funds reach West Virginia, counties are making high-stakes choices about how to spend it — ...

So far, GameChanger has received $310,000 from three counties – more than any other existing prevention program – and Boczak says they intend to ask other counties to fund their work from this source ...

On a warm summer day in late May, about 100 people are waiting for their turn to go inside the Neighborhood S.H.O.P., located in the annex of Bream Memorial Presbyterian Church on the West Side of ...

As Matthew Thomas-Reid grew up in the shadows of the Appalachian mountains in North Carolina, the difference between being “queer” and “quar,” as it was pronounced in that thick, Southern dialect, was ...

What she’s doing is leading a walking tour of Uniontown’s storied Black neighborhood. On the two occasions Thomas was able to lead such a tour before COVID, she took her participants to the ...

There’s often a disconnect between statistics on opioid use disorders and the real people the numbers represent. That disconnect tends to trickle its way down to the policymakers tasked with enacting ...

There’s only so many times a woman bound to the code of Clorox, Pledge and Windex can clean up after someone else’s mess before the time comes to act. She wasn’t afraid of jail. “They’ll give me three ...

With the release of “Hillbilly Elegy,” J.D. Vance branded himself an advocate for a forgotten demographic, embracing “identity politics” to champion the plight of the poor family – the poor white ...