[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everybody. When martine. Good afternoon. Youve enjoyed the three days weve had here. You know, my Third Straight year of coming and nature they try to offer a great selection of poetry and discussions, film. Thank you so much are coming to join us. The reception last night, the presentation we had the honorary chair last night. The honorees were [inaudible] and woody king junior. Their messages were very inspiring and really got people fired up. I hope you got a chance to see it. Todays the last day of the conference we want to make sure we have a good time today. This is a black literature and the topic we have come in today. My name is patrick oliver. I thought of the readers and writers raised in chicago, illinois. We supported and not of projects, to encourage young people to become the next generation of individuals who may be at the conference monday. Check us out and speak loudly. Com. Its also my pleasure to be
Populations and we were able to get it up and running pretty quick. So here is some of the outcomes of the grant to date. We have been able to assist through the outreach and education event and the 101 navigator appointments over 78,000 individuals and attended hundreds of outreach programs and held 17,000 or more navigator appointments and that includes doing the application and setting up the account and they come back and want to pick a plan and enroll and so that doesnt always happen with every consumer in that order, but consumer appointments include all of those activities. We had almost a 100 navigators trained at any given time throughout the state. Those navigators not only completed the 20 hours of training that is required but in florida they were required to be finger printed, background checked and registered with the state. So those hundred navigators covered the 64 counties that were our target region. We were able to assist in a wide range of languages. The top five ar
Certain level of Health Literacy to the consumers that have health insurance. Transportation is a significant issue in the rural area so we had to include a lot of mobile navigators. It could not be someone sitting in an office waiting for folks to come to them. We had to go where they were and be convenient in terms of hours and physical location so they could connect to the consumer assistance they needed. And we were dealing with trust issues among hard to reach populations and they are so wide in terms of their diversity we had to make sure we were working with the right stakeholders in each community who could speak the language and understood the culture issues when we communicate about Something Like this. In addition to the lack of coverage opportunities when i addressed in the previous slides among the lowest income population. We had lots of people coming in and there are always those that fell on the lowest income range that could not obtain coverage under the effort. A key
This is abc7 news. Good morning, everyone. Im carolyn tyler. Thanks for joining us on this sunday, september 28th. Lets start with a quick look at the weather with our meteorologist lisa argen. Hi there, carolyn. Good morning to you. Live doppler 7hd still showing activity in the northern and southern sierra. Thunderstorms around fresno and the wrap around cloud cover and moisture still allowing for showers. In fact, High Television snow there. It will influence our weather. You see the cloud cover here. A mixture of low clouds and high clouds. Low 60s san carlos, 61 morgan hill and the plans throughout the rest of the day, maybe coastal mist and drizzle. Santa cruz mountain an isolated shower. Overall partly cloudy and 60s and 70s today. We begin with developing news out of alameda where authorities have arrested two people in connection with eight suspicious fires that began around 1 00 this morning. This three alarm fired started just after 4 00 this morning in the 1600 block of par
Will call it partly cloudy. The upper 70s inland. Up are 60s to the low 70s in San Francisco underneath partly cloudy skies. More clouds along the coastline and we will look for low 70s in oakland. Still on track to warm up significantly for the october run. Ill have the details. Carolyn. Lisa, thank you. Breaking news from overnight. San Francisco Police say they were forced to use flash bang grenades to subdue a man they say threatened to kill himself following a dui stop. It happened on the believed between clement street and gary boulevard. Police pulled over a man they say was armed with a knife. The man cut himself and threatened suicide. Authorities used those flash bang grenades to subdue and detain him. The man has been hospitalized. Police have cleared 16 squatters from a San Francisco building. They werent just seeking temporary shelter but looking to live there for the longterm. It took a month for the buildings owner to realize they were there. Abc7 reporter Lisa Amin Gule