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Mayor London Breed (left), with Pamela Gilmore, director of the residential and homeless division at Bayview Hunters Point Foundation, tours the Bayview SAFE Navigation Center on Thursday.Lea Suzuki / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Mayor London Breed (center) visits with homelessness officials Abigail Stewart-Kahn (right) and Pamela Gilmore.Lea Suzuki / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
In October 2018, Mayor London Breed announced an ambitious goal she said was key to addressing San Francisco’s swelling homeless population: open 1,000 shelter beds throughout the city by 2021.
, demonstrate that spiritual struggles in particular significantly modify the impact of unique proteins on risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) in U.S. South Asians, a community that has especially high rates of CVD.
This study is the first to analyze proteomics signatures in relationship to religion and spirituality in any population. It is also the first analysis of protein expression in relationship to CVD within a U.S. South Asian population.
The analysis was conducted by Harvard Medical School investigators based at Massachusetts General Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and colleagues from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF).
Author of the article: Postmedia Staff
Publishing date: Jan 18, 2021 • January 18, 2021 • 2 minute read •
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Ensuring resident safety is always a priority for the City of Belleville and during COVID-19 this commitment has intensified.
The additional safety precautions have added extensive expenses to the City’s operating costs, including support systems for the vulnerable populations within the community. The City was pleased to receive financial support from the CMA Foundation (CMAF) which was applied to the summer cooling centre’s operating expenses which enabled our community to better protect and assist those who need it most.
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One way to do that is develop what is known as a resilience action plan, or RAP.
A RAP is a way for communities (be they school-based, profession-based, or neighbourhood-based) to collectively assess their strengths and weaknesses ahead of coming disasters, identify priorities and build an implementation strategy.
Recent work with Tarnagulla a small town that sits in a bushfire and heatwave-prone part of rural Victoria offers an example. The community got together, applied for funding and co-produced with me (Mittul Vahanvati) a tailor-made RAP for their town.
Their example highlights how small scale, grass roots action trumps waiting around for large scale, top-down climate action to shape our future.