Thomas Curwen is an award-winning staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, where he has worked as editor of the Outdoors section, deputy editor of the Book Review and an editor at large for features. In 2020, he received the Meyer Berger Award from Columbia Journalism School for distinguished human interest reporting for a series of stories that followed eight residents of a homeless encampment into housing in South Los Angeles. In 2016, he was part of the team of Times reporters who won a Pulitzer for their work covering a terrorist attack in San Bernardino, and in 2008 he was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for his story about a father and daughter who were attacked by a grizzly bear in Montana. He has received a Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for mental health journalism and was honored by the Academy of American Poets.
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Oct. 1, 2023
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Sept. 20, 2023
Sacramento lawmakers approved changes to California’s landmark behavioral health law. The measure now goes to Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Sept. 15, 2023
CARE courts open in several California counties Oct. 2. Some families and others question the voluntary-compliance aspect of the mental illness law.
Sept. 4, 2023
Cook’s Corner has been an institution in Orange County’s Trabuco Canyon for generations. The shooting has regular customers mourning the victims and worrying about the eatery’s future.
Aug. 27, 2023
The Nordstrom was ransacked in a brazen daytime robbery at the Westfield Topanga Shopping Center shortly after 4 p.m. Saturday.
Aug. 12, 2023
Frustrated by bureaucracy and the vicious cycles of addiction, psychosis and homelessness, some families are turning to private contractors to help find their children.
Aug. 8, 2023
Part private investigator, part street clinician, a self-described crisis interventionist takes to the street to help one mother reconnect with a daughter who is homeless and mentally ill.
Aug. 3, 2023
Seven counties will open their CARE Courts on Oct. 1. The state has estimated that 7,000 to 12,000 people will qualify for a treatment plan.
May 21, 2023
The latest effort to overhaul the LPS Act — California’s landmark mental health legislation — arrives with renewed momentum from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s initiatives. Will SB 43 succeed?
April 9, 2023