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This story first appeared in How We Care, a weekly newsletter by Spotlight PA featuring original reporting and perspectives on how we care for one another at all stages of life. Sign up for free here.Written by Sarah Boden| Spotlight PAAlana Griffin was employed and on maternity leave when she and her infant son moved into a Tampa, Florida, women’s shelter in 2012.The Pittsburgh native, who had recently left her […]

Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom producing investigative and public-service journalism that holds power to account and drives positive change in Pennsylvania. Sign up for our free newsletters.Written by Stephen Caruso of Spotlight PA and Marley Parish of Spotlight PA State College | Spotlight PA.HARRISBURG — Joyce Knestrick can independently give physical exams, diagnose health conditions, prescribe select medications, and make referrals as a nurse practitioner at […]

This piece originally ran in The Philadelphia Citizen. Sign up for The Citizen’s newsletter for more civic-minded solutions journalism in your inbox. Written by Courtney DuChene | The Philadelphia Citizen.Patricia Bustillos works part-time cleaning offices, volunteers at a community advocacy group — and is often called on to care for her two youngest grandchildren, both infants, one who is only six weeks old. It’s no wonder the mother of four children and grandmother to nine […]