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.
He told the caseworker that they needed to leave for his son s appointment, and she told him it could wait.