Tagged With "African American"
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This Sat Sep 12th Join San Diego Black Health and Harmonious Solutions as they discuss ACEs from an African American prespective and their effect on our health!
Saturday, Sep 12 from 9:00 to 12:00 noon at Jacobs Center Community Room : Adverse Childhood Experiences Conference for Southeast San Diego by SDBHA and Harmonious Solutions at Jacobs Center 404 Euclid Avenue, San Diego, CA 92114. ...
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From Awareness to Action, with Voices of Lived Experience: Wisconsin’s Collective Impact Initiative
Perhaps it wasn’t the optimum time to update the network’s vision and values statements: a virtual meeting held in the midst of a global pandemic. But a record number of people—51, compared to the typical 30—tuned in for the May 1 Wisconsin Office of Children’s Mental Health (OCMH) Collective Impact Council, and they gave the new values statement, which highlights inclusivity and collaboration, an enthusiastic thumbs-up. At the virtual table were members from key state departments—Children...
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Grossmont Healthcare District Helping Refugees With Support to License to Freedom (eastcountymagazine.org)
The Grossmont Healthcare District (GHD) has awarded a $10,000 grant to License to Freedom, an El Cajon-based nonprofit that assists Middle Eastern refugees and immigrants with cultural assimilation and health education. The grant will support License to Freedom’s community outreach efforts, particularly as they relate to cultural adjustment to American healthcare norms. Outreach includes providing culturally competent health education classes taught in Arabic to recent refugees and...
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Healing our Communities through Trauma Informed Ministries
Thirteen faith leaders, behavioral health providers, and community leaders gathered on August 12 in City Heights for an introduction to the science and practice of adverse childhood experiences, and to hear about an upcoming series of workshops about mental health services in their communities. The series, which is led by Pastor Jesus Sandoval, chair of the Faith Based Academy, intends to bring together 25 Hispanic and 25 African American ministries with staff from San Diego County's Health,...
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Housing Assistance Program for Victims (hotel stays/rental assistance/rental deposits/mortgage assistance)
From: Terra Marroquin, Family Violence Prevention Specialist, San Diego County District Attorney's Office Enclosed is an application for the XC Grant funded Victim Housing program, operated by South Bay Community Services (SBCS). It’s a simple three-page application that staff at your organization can complete with the client and fax or email to SBCS. No crime report is required. The survivor must have experienced victimization within the past 12 months to qualify. This housing program for...
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How a Group of Female Inmates Won the Right to Live with Their Children [Vice.com]
The springtime sun blazes over East Arrow Highway in Pomona, California, and the glare off the whitish-gray concrete walkways forces everyone to squint. Regina Dotson moves busily in and out of her office on the second floor of a residential...
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How we integrated ACE screening into the Health Appraisal Center at Kaiser Permanente in San Diego
In all of medicine, it is important to understand that there are only three sources of diagnostic information: patient history, physical examination, and laboratory studies. While patients overwhelmingly assume that diagnosis derives from lab...
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It Will Take a Political Revolution to Cure the Epidemic of Depression (San Diego Free Press)
What causes depression and anxiety? I have been a practicing psychologist and psychoanalyst for almost 40 years and have seen hundreds of patients suffering from both. In my experience, some factors are obvious. People who suffer from depression and anxiety have experienced stresses and traumas in their development that predispose them to mood disorders. Garden-variety psychodynamic theory teaches us that issues involving loss, neglect, guilt, and rejection usually figure prominently in the...
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ITRC 2018 California Conference: Preparing People for Climate Change in California
To See the Conference Agenda, List of All-Star Speakers, and To Register Click Here Why Should Californians Attend This Unique Conference ? From high levels of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), to job and financial struggles, racism and other forms of inequity and injustice, traumatic stress is epidemic today. Climate change will aggravate all of these existing adversities, and add many new ones as well. Yet, California is leading the U.S. in finding innovative new ways to address...
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Lemon Grove School District presents: FREE film screening of Resilience (Th Sep 26, 2019 5-7pm) Lemon Grove Academy Middle School
Thursday, September 26, 2019 | 5:00 – 7:00 PM Lemon Grove Academy Middle School - Alvarez Auditorium 3171 School Ln., Lemon Grove, CA 91945 FREE FILM SCREENING Join us for a FREE film screening of the 2016 critically acclaimed documentary Resilience: The Biology of Stress & the Science of Hope - Appropriate for Children 11 Years Old and Up - Childcare Available - Childhood trauma doesn’t end in childhood. Its effects ripple through adulthood unless young people are taught how to cope. In...
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Virtual Trauma-Informed School: San Diego Mission Academy
Heartache is a universal experience, yet we often feel alone. Things happen; choices are made, and before we know it, we wake up longing for change. No one grows up dreaming that they will not “fit in” to the “traditional” path, but when they find themselves on the detour route, it feels like a moving treadmill, going nowhere fast down an isolated road. “Traditional” opportunities may not have worked out, but there are alternative routes to success, now more than ever! San Diego Mission...
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San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team Minutes - May 1, 2020
It was nice to see so many attendees at our first all-virtual meeting! Attached are the meeting minutes, including announcements of our mini-grant recipients and how to apply for our next round of mini-grants !
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San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team Meeting July 10, 2020
It was wonderful to "see" everyone at our virtual meeting in July! Attached are the meeting minutes and the Systemic Racism PowerPoint mentioned in our meeting.
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CALIFORNIA ACES ACADEMY: Parental ACEs and Pediatrics: Transforming Well Care [avahealth.org]
CALIFORNIA ACES ACADEMY (CAA) , funded by ACEs Aware, is providing free online training to Medi-Cal providers and others featuring: Practical strategies for integrating trauma-informed health care into your team’s practice that improves patients’ well being and the productivity of your practice. Meet colleagues with experience and success providing trauma-informed health care in their practices. Learn from national and local experts. Talk to other professionals from your region in small...
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RSVP now! FREE Learning opportunity for CA healthcare providers: Oct 1, 2020 at noon PST
RSVP now for a presentation by Susie Wiet, MD who is an integrative developmental psychiatrist with expertise in holistic treatment of trauma-addiction, dual diagnosis, and complex psychiatric disorders. Target Audience T his activity is intended for CALIFORNIA physicians, physician assistants, registered nurses, nurse practitioners, psychologists and social workers engaged in the care of patients who have experienced violence or trauma. Educational Objectives After completing these...
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Introducing 'A Better Normal': Real Talk With Rafael! October 16, 2020, 12pm PDT
Real Talk with Rafael is joining the A Better Normal (ABN) webinar series. Real Talk with Rafael i s designed to give the ACEs Connection community and guests an opportunity to have a safe space to talk about issues around the intersections of race, identity, and toxic stress. For those of you who attended the ABN “Episode 32: Reinterpreting American Identity, A Community Discussion” , you’ll recognize that Real Talk with Rafael is very similar, and will continue these conversations over...
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Tlingit man elected mayor of San Diego (indiancountrytoday.com)
On Nov. 3, Todd Gloria, Tlingit, was elected mayor of San Diego, the nation’s eighth-largest and California’s second-largest city. Gloria, 42, is the first openly gay and the first person of color to be elected as San Diego’s mayor, as well as the first Native American and Filipino-American mayor elected in a U.S. city of over 1 million people, according to the Los Angeles Times . He was born in San Diego. In a 2009 interview he said he’s Native American, Filipino and “a little bit of Dutch...
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Two steps steps forward, one step back in history of racial equity (sandiegouniontribune.com)
San Diego County supervisors last week formally defined racism as a public health crisis, acknowledging for the first time that a broad and baked-in prejudice underpins virtually every aspect of public policy. The unanimous declaration came days ahead of the national holiday honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and after a majority of Democrats was elected to the county board. Among other actions, the vote directed county officials to begin collecting data that will help them...
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The quiet struggle: Leaving a job I love to care for my family and mental health (workforce.org)
The struggle to maintain mental health is a universal experience in the American workplace. Before the pandemic, one in four American workers had been diagnosed with depression[1] and one in three reported having experienced some form of depression[2]. This is even more relevant in this current crisis. As February comes to a close, we are approaching 12 months of the battle against COVID-19 and the upending of what work, safety or even community looks like. We are bombarded daily with stats...
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Medical Board of California Features AAP-CA3, Dr. Wendy Pavlovich and Dr. Pradeep Gidwani
In a recent article titled, " Adverse Childhood Experiences: Breaking the Cycle in a Time of COVID-19 ," the Medical Board of California newsletter highlighted the work being done by the American Academy of Pediatrics, California Chapter 3 , Dr. Wendy Pavlovich and Dr. Pradeep Gidwani.
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Keeping San Diego’s Urban Indigenous Community Healthy In Mind, Body And Spirit Amid COVID-19 (kpbs.org)
Body, Mind, and Spirit. An indivisible combination that is the cornerstone for holistic wellness for Native Americans. It is also the slogan that appears beneath the medicine wheel on the sign for the San Diego American Indian Health Center . “Da'anzho,” said Ruben Leyva, standing at the corner in Bankers Hill where the clinic is located. “That means ‘hello’ in the Apache language. I am a Chiricahua Chíhénde Apache. I stand here honored and humbled to speak to you on Kumeyaay land.” In order...
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New KidsData.org Release: Positive Childhood Experiences During COVID-19 [positiveexperience.org/blog]
By Loren McCullough and Dr. Bob Sege, 3/11/21, positiveexperience.org/blog What’s going on with families during the COVID pandemic? In partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics , Prevent Child Abuse America , and with assistance and financial support from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) , The Lucile Packard Foundation , the California Department of Public Health , and KidsData.org , we surveyed California parents, to find out how they are doing during the...
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The Atlanta Shootings Fit Into a Long Legacy of Anti-Asian Violence in America (time.com)
From the time the first wave of Chinese immigrants arrived as laborers in the U.S. in the 1850s, Asian Americans have always been subject to racist violence . As a source of cheap labor to build railroads, Asian immigrants came to be seen as threats to white jobs and scapegoated as dirty and disease-ridden. The “yellow peril” ultimately led to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the first time the U.S. had ever barred a specific ethnic group from the country. The brutality runs through more...
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Biden COVID adviser Dr. Julie Morita on anti-Asian hate and racism's role in pandemics (cbsnews.com)
A spike in assaults against Asian Americans nationwide converging with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has further exposed health inequities and simmering sentiments of racism over the past year. In a report released last week, the group Stop AAPI Hate said it had received nearly 3,800 reports of hate incidents , including verbal harassment, shunning and physical assault, over the past year. With few concrete legislative answers to the problem, health experts and patients alike are left...
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Local Organizations Join Together To Build HOPE and Resiliency in San Diego’s Children
April is National Month of Hope. While hope is something we all need right now as we surpass one year of the COVID pandemic, HOPE (Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences) means something different in our work as ACEs Aware grantees. The YMCA of San Diego County , San Diego State University Social Policy Institute , San Diego Accountable Community for Health (SDACH) and American Academy of Pediatrics – California Chapter 3 are combining efforts as ACEs Aware grantees to work with...
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Resilient Communities for Every Child (San Diego for Every Child)
So far, 2021 has proven to be a year of ups and downs. At San Diego for Every Child (SDeC), we recognize both the challenges and opportunities emerging from the last year and a half and continue our work towards a healthier, more equitable, more resilient San Diego. Your support and partnership makes this possible. Among the challenges has been a spotlight on long standing inequities, hate, and racism. San Diego for Every Child stands in solidarity with our Asian American and Pacific...
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Addressing Child Poverty Beyond the Pandemic (yesmagazine.org)
The Biden administration’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan is a complex legislative prescription for the economic hardship COVID-19 has inflicted on families like Shawn’s. The plan aims to affect a massive economic recovery by putting more money into the hands of more Americans in need . The Center on Social Policy at Columbia University has estimated that the American Rescue Plan will cut the child poverty rate by as much as 56% this year, which would affect children of all races. The...
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Meeting Parents and Caregivers at Their Aspirations (rwjf.org)
We can begin by truly listening to parents and caregivers, and building from their wisdom. To help achieve this understanding, over the last 18 months, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) commissioned in-depth research with parents and caregivers to learn about the aspirations they have for their children, the challenges they face, and the factors that help them thrive. What makes this research unique is an intentional focus on parents and caregivers of different racial and ethnic...
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The Refugee-Led Coalition Creating Collective Care (yesmagazine.org)
Already facing health and education gaps, refugees in San Diego banded together during the pandemic to define their own challenges and create their own solutions. Jama Ahmed Mohamed was 2 years old when his family fled the civil war in Mogadishu, Somalia, and escaped to a refugee camp in Kenya. This became his precarious home, where his family faced alienation and violence as displaced outsiders in the borderlands of two countries. “There’s this feeling of never being settled. …We would...
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PACEs Connection presents the "Historical Trauma in America" series
PACEs Connection's Race & Equity Workgroup will be examining historical trauma in the United States of America and its impact on American society in a series of virtual discussions. This series will highlight each unique region within the United States and outline how unresolved historical trauma has impacted every aspect of American life and directly shapes the socio-political landscape of today as well as the overall well-being of Americans. Discussions will make connections between...
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Opinion: A better workplace for LGBTQIA+ workers means a better world for all workers (sandiegouniontribune.com)
For as long as the Center for American Progress has tracked this data, LGBTQIA+ people have experienced unemployment at rates that outpace the general population. Earlier last year, the same workers were disproportionately impacted by COVID-19-related layoffs . While employment discrimination against LGBTQIA+ employees has been broadly illegal in California for some time, inequities remain, and as people who care about both LGBTQIA+ workers and the health of San Diego’s workforce broadly, we...
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San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team Learning Exchange August 6, 2021
A HUGE Thank You to Aisha Pope for her informative and thought-provoking presentation at our recent Learning Exchange entitled, Bringing Your Authentic Self to Work: the Costs of Code Switching !! And thank you to everyone who attended and participated in our learning exchange break out groups! We hope to see you back at our next meeting, October 1, 2021 from 12:15 - 2pm. Please see attached for meeting minutes and Aisha's PowerPoint.
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San Diego playwright Anita Simons shares her premier work, This We'll Defend, about the epidemic of Military Sexual Trauma
The American History Theater is proud to announce its first live play since the onset of COVID19 with "THIS WE’LL DEFEND", a military-inspired show opening December 3 at Light Box Theater in the Arts District Liberty Station, written by local playwright Anita Yellin Simons and directed by Missy Malloy. Simons began writing the play in 2009 when she learned about the acute prevalence of military rapes and suicides service-wide. In 2012, after several rewrites, the play became a finalist for...
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The Promise of Community-Driven Science (ssir.org)
Powered by thousands of early-career scientists and students, a global movement to transform scientific practice has emerged in recent years. The objective is to “expand the boundaries of what we consider science,” says Rajul Pandya, senior director of Thriving Earth Exchange at the American Geophysical Union (AGU), “to fundamentally transform science and the way we use it.” These scientists have joined forces with community leaders and members of the public to establish new protocols and...
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San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team February 4, 2022 Meeting Minutes
It was wonderful to see so many familiar faces at our meeting! Special thanks to Linda Ketterer from San Diego Mission Academy and Micaela Cunningham from NAMI San Diego! They started our discussion with brief presentations on the role of Family/Youth Support Partners and services offered to FYSPs by NAMI! See attached minutes and handouts for details.
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A Native American voice so strong even Oprah shared his message (newsbreak.com)
SAN DIEGO — A revered tribal elder in the Native American community has a message for all of San Diego. In this Zevely Zone, I profile a voice so strong even Oprah shared his message. Bankers Hill may be the last place you'd expect to receive a history lesson, but it is where Native American customs and traditions are still alive. With every song, the Red Warrior drum group remembers Native American history. "A lot of people don't even know about Native Americans anymore and they think we...
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San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team June 3, 2022 Minutes
Wow! What a fantastic meeting! Dr. Vincent Felitti joined us as did Godwin Higa! See minutes attached or watch the recording via this link: SDTIGT meeting 6.3.22
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California-mental-health-crisis-hotline 988
All the 988 California Mental Health Crisis and Suicide Prevention Hotline starts 16 July 2022. Dial 988: California’s mental health crisis hotline debuts- CalMatters
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San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team August 5, 2022 Meeting Minutes
Thank you to all who attended and shared how they maintain Revolutionary Optimism! See meeting minutes and handouts for upcoming trainings attached.
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From Trauma to Resiliency: Trauma-Informed Practices for Working with Children, Families, Schools, and Communities (Routledge Textbook)
(Congratulations to Dr. Audrey Hokoda and Dr. Shulamit Ritblatt for their steadfast dedication as Editors of this textbook. Long-standing San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team (SDTIGT) member, there are more SDTIGT members who are co-authors. Congratulations to all contributors!) From Trauma to Resiliency: Trauma-Informed Practices for Working with Children, Families, Schools, and Communities Edited by Shulamit Natan Ritblatt, San Diego State University, California, USA and Audrey Hokoda ,...
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INDIGENIZED PROFESSIONAL LEARNING Native Ways of Knowing Micro-Courses (caindianeducationforall.com)
Supporting Literacy and Culturally Responsive Instruction for Native American Students San Diego County Office of Education and California Indian Education for All are hosting a free, Native Ways of Knowing Webinar Series. K-12 educators and leaders are invited to learn from several renowned Native American professors, scholars, and change makers. Participants will access free culturally responsive resources to improve representations and classroom climates for teaching and learning about...
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Barrio Logan Ranked 6th on List of World's 'Coolest Neighborhoods' (msn.com)
A skateboarder passes through an underpass on Cesar Chavez Boulevard. Photo by Chris Stone © Provided by Times of San Diego To read the Times of San Diego article, click, Barrio Logan Ranked 6th on List of World's 'Coolest Neighborhoods' (msn.com) San Diego’s historic Barrio Logan neighborhood was ranked 6th on a list of the world’s “ 51 Coolest Neighborhoods ” by Time Out magazine. Time Out, which publishes in 328 cities, described the neighborhood as “a vibrant and historic hub of...
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FREE Virtual Training - Who We Are: An Introduction to African American Communities
Hello, Join us for a live virtual training, Who We Are: An Introduction to African American Communities this Thursday, December 1, 2022 from 9:00 AM-3:00 PM, virtually. This training is open to anyone working with children, youth and families. Instructions for how to register are on the flyer. If you have any questions, please email RIHS@sdsu.edu . Thank you!
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Health, Human Services Agency - Safe Parking RFP
A HHSA RFP that was just posted on 2/2 for Safe Parking. It is attached, the Statement of Work is on pages 48-56 . Key notes below: 2 sites, one at Magnolia in El Cajon and the other on Bancroft in Spring Valley. Start dates are 8/1 for El Cajon (contingent on site improvements), and 5/1 for Spring Valley. Referrals may only be made from OHS Outreach Teams, there are no self referrals allowed No RV or large van parking No cooking Open 7 days/week, from 7pm-7am Information required to be...
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San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team February 3, 2023 Meeting Minutes
Thanks to Dana Brown for her thought-provoking presentation on San Diego's Coorperative of Communities! See attached for minutes, Dana's presentation and many other informational handouts.
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Native Ways of Knowing Book List: Decolonizing and Indigenizing Classrooms and Libraries (SCOE)
SDCOE and CIEFA's Native Ways of Knowing Book List: Decolonizing and Indigenizing Classrooms and Libraries To help educators and parents choose high-quality Indigenous authored books, the San Diego County Office of Education (SDCOE) and California Indian Education (CIEFA) have designed this Native Ways of Knowing Book List: Decolonizing and Indigenizing Classrooms and Libraries. These books have been vetted by Native American scholars, CIEFA, and SDCOE staff. Please consider adding these...
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San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team June 2, 2023 Meeting Minutes
It was wonderful seeing those who could attend - both in person and virtually! Congratulations to Shor Denny, our new Guide Team Co-Chair! See attached for meeting minutes and handouts.
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Native American Cross Country Prayer Run Arrives in San Diego Wed., June 14 (obrag.org)
To read more of the SOURCE article, please click here. Local Native Americans are about to complete the longest indigenous prayer run in U.S. history. “Run with the Sun” is the brainchild of Lakeside resident Bobby Wallace, a member of the Barona Band of Mission Indians, in hopes of protecting waters across America. “It’s been awesome making changes in people’s minds about water everywhere,” Wallace told East County Magazine in an interview. “We started running, traveling with the water over...
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Still there: Alzheimer's has ravaged his mother's memory, but music brings her back (npr.org)
Adam Kaye and his mother, Marti Kaye, spend every Sunday together. Adam normally plays some of her favorite songs on his guitar, with Marti whistling or humming along. But he recently had shoulder surgery and won't be able to strum a guitar for a while. Dustin Jones/NPR To read more of Dustin Jones' article, please click here. Eighteen years ago, Adam Kaye was hosting a family barbecue at his home in Del Mar, Calif., when his mother, Martha Kaye, broke the news. At 71 years old, she realized...
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California Bans Book Bans and Textbook Censorship in Schools (www.gov.ca.gov)
To read more, click here, California Bans Book Bans and Textbook Censorship in Schools . SACRAMENTO — Building on his Family Agenda to promote educational freedom and success, Governor Gavin Newsom today signed AB 1078 by Assemblymember Dr. Corey Jackson (D-Moreno Valley), which bans “book bans” in schools, prohibits censorship of instructional materials, and strengthens California law requiring schools to provide all students access to textbooks that teach about California’s diverse...