Aurora Aguilar

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  • Username: aaguilar
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  • Role: Producer/Reporter: Station-Based

Recent Pieces from Aurora Aguilar

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Out of the Shadows: How mental illness affects intimacy (08:00)
From: WBEZ

A teenage girl describes how her mental illness effects her relationship.
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Out of the Shadows: A son's mental illness divides a family (07:38)
From: WBEZ

How a child's mental illness forces a family to celebrate birthdays and take vacations separately in order to stay together.
Caption: Joey's family works together to provide a support network for the bipolar teen.

Out of the Shadows: A family's struggle to find normalcy for their mentally ill child (12:13)
From: WBEZ

A family reshapes itself to accommodate their mentally ill son.
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Out of the Shadows: Trading the couch for the curandero (11:02)
From: WBEZ

According to the latest Youth Risk Behavior Survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over 15 percent of Latino youth in the United States have considered ...
Caption: Julian's mother found help through a little-known and hard to obtain solution.

Out of the Shadows: A mother's quest for state resources (11:46)
From: WBEZ

When a mentally ill child becomes unmanageable at home, his mother digs deep into the system to find state funding that will pay for his residential treatment.