Confronting the double crisis of the decline of coal jobs and a pandemic, some people in the northwest Colorado city of Craig are finding silver linings.

After a brutal spring and a tough summer, the new season brings more uncertainty for Denver’s Black-owned businesses.

Overall, childhood poverty is trending downward, but a third of Colorado’s black and Latino kids still live in poverty, while child homelessness is increasing dramatically.

A lack of personal protective equipment, low pay and little sick leave mean that home health aides are uniquely vulnerable to COVID-19, and potentially spreading it to others.

Groups providing services to people experiencing domestic violence in Colorado are forced to adjust their services at a time when financial stress and isolation are increasing the risk of abuse.

As the coronavirus scuttled their usual events, a group in Sheridan, Colo. pivoted quickly to meet their community’s most urgent needs.

While health officials focus on making hospitals safer to prevent infant and maternal deaths among people of color, a small number of new parents are avoiding hospitals altogether.

An increasingly sought-after, lower-cost form of maternity care is inaccessible to many Coloradans.

And three things you can do about it.

Jennifer Fanning, who leads the Grand County Rural Health Network, says systemic changes start with listening to the community.