For Many in Child Welfare, 2020 Is a Lost Year

Credit:Allison Maletz

This is the third in a series produced under a USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism 2020 National Fellowship, which focuses on the stories of vulnerable communities. The first two parts of the series explored how COVID-19 has affected young adults "aging out" of the foster care system and grandparents raising kin.

Michael "Mickey" Hogan, 42, and his then wife were living in a camper beside a back road in Denver, preparing to take their newborn son to a doctor's appointment in August 2017, when a child protective services agent from the county showed up at their door.