Meet Chevon Kothari: Sacramento County s new health services director Chelsea Shannon
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Kothari previously served as the chief deputy director of the California Department of Social Services for most of the COVID-19 pandemic. And before that, she worked for six years as the director of Mariposa County Health and Human Services Agency.
Kothari officially started with Sacramento County on May 9 and, on May 13, she sat down with ABC10 to share some of her thoughts on how she wants to help Sacramento County.
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Kothari said she believes her background, including 25 years of experience, and the current team in the department of health services will be able to create solutions and engage all communities within Sacramento County with a focus on health equity.
The Sierra Child & Family Services Adoption Agency (SCFS) has several offices in the Mother Lode and recently opened a location in Murphys. The agency is seeking homes that can provide a safe, stable, nurturing, and flexible environment to children in need. They operate a licensed foster family agency, adoption agency, and outpatient mental health clinics with the mission to provide mental health, foster, and adoptive services for children and families in Northern California.
The agency states some of the benefits of fostering or adopting include changing a child’s life and enriching yours, healing your community and keeping children local, expanding your family, and keeping sibling groups together. They share April Herrera’s experience, “I was literally blindsided when we started doing foster care. We live in our little bubbles. I had no idea how bad the drug problems are in our city, but what makes my job easy is we belong to an incredible organization, Sierra Child and Fami
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