COVID-19 Yet Another Challenge for Grandfamilies

Credit: Ash Ponders

This is the second in a series produced under a USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism 2020 National Fellowship, which focuses on the stories of vulnerable communities. Click here for the first story on how COVID-19 has affected young adults "aging out" of the foster care system.

Gail Engel, 65, has helped to raise her grandson Bryson, who has autism and other neuropsychiatric disorders, since the day he was born. She became his primary caregiver when he was 2; she and her husband eventually gave up their retirement plans and adopted him …