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Michele Cohen Marill

Michele Cohen Marill is a freelance health reporter based in Atlanta, Georgia.

6/12/2025

Cuts Could Slash ‘Baby Bond’ Funds for Foster Youth, COVID Orphans in California

A program of financial support for California children who lost parents to COVID may be trimmed under budget proposals by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

3/13/2025

Opioid Orphans: Grandparents Struggle to Raise Children Left Behind

Despite billions raised from opioid settlements, relatives caring for kids whose parents died from overdoses get little to no support.

3/12/2025

COVID Stole a Parent from More than 200,000 Children. Native American Youth Had the Greatest Losses

During the peak of the COVID pandemic, approximately 2,000 Indigenous children in the Navajo Nation lost a parent or caregiver, a grief that reverberates five years on.