Agreement allowing the boarding school for foster children will end as state seeks to discourage placing children in congregate living facilities.
Several foster care advocates and campus staff joined Tia Moore, director of San Pasqual, and Shane Harris, government affairs liaison of San Pasqual, outside the Escondido boarding school Tuesday for a press conference to urge county officials to
continue negotiating
with the state to get them to allow new students to enroll.
They say the state’s extension terms outlined by its Department of Social Services are intended to kill the program.
“To say that you are no longer going to send youth to this campus is to say that this academy will close,” said Harris, who also is a former student of the academy. “To say that you are not going to send any more youth to this campus is to say that you don’t care about . our county’s foster care children having alternative options.”
–This week Governor Gavin Newsom announced a series of initiatives building on the state’s work to "vaccinate California’s hard-to-reach communities against COVID-19, address vaccine hesitancy, and drive innovative efforts in the communities hardest hit by the pandemic."
Governor announces new initiatives to expand vaccinations across California
Lake County News reports
05 May 2021
On Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a series of initiatives building on the state’s work to vaccinate California’s hard-to-reach communities against COVID-19, address vaccine hesitancy and drive innovative efforts in the communities hardest hit by the pandemic.
New efforts focus on direct appointment assistance; community outreach including neighborhood canvassing, phone banking and text banking; at-home vaccinations and transportation services; and an additional $33 million in funding, bringing the total to $85.7 million, to support community-based organizations.
“We’re at a pivotal moment in our COVID-19 vaccine rollout – more than 30 million doses have been administered in California to date, and it’s going to take some new approaches to reach those who haven’t been vaccinated yet,” said Governor Newsom. “These enhanced initiatives build o
Sacramento County eyes new health director from California social services agency
Sacramento Bee 2 hrs ago Michael Finch II, The Sacramento Bee
May 3 The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors is expected to name Chevon Kothari as the next director of health services, a job with broad authority over programs from psychiatric services and public health to primary care and medical services delivered inside the county jails.
Kothari was most recently the chief deputy director in the California Department of Social Services, overseeing the agency s community care licensing, legal, disaster services and state hearings divisions. She was sworn in for the position in July 2020.
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