Health4All Gets Support At Supervisors Meeting
On March 18th the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors held a discussion and workshop to help determine whether or not they will provide healthcare funding to undocumented people. Many gathered at...
View ArticleInvitation to the Civic Engagement and Voter Turnout
Your voice is important and the Public Policy Institute of California, PPIC, is finding ways to make sure you get heard. Every year the voter turnout in California is dropping. The PPIC is holding an...
View ArticleWorkshop Seeks To Inform Undocumented About Drivers Licenses
On April 15th a public meeting took place set out to inform undocumented residents about a new assembly bill that went into effect on January 1st of 2015. The meeting took place at the Saca Community...
View ArticleVIDEO: Sol Collective Provides Artistic Outlet for Youth
Sol Collective is a community center that aims to give the youth an open place to create art. Sol Collective gives the youth an area to express themselves. Check out the video below to learn what Sol...
View ArticleUC Davis Farmers Market offers Veggies for Oak Park
Every Thursday, the UC Davis Health Systems Campus off of Stockton Boulevard in South Sacramento holds a community farmers market in their parking lot. With new agriculture reforms in Sacramento,...
View ArticleVIDEO: Community Learns The Importance Of Composting
Recently, the Fremont Community Garden held their annual food-cycle celebration put together by GRAS. GRAS is a local group that rides their bikes to restaurants in Sacramento’s downtown area to pick...
View ArticleLocal Organizations Battle Racism on a New Front
Racism is an issue that America has been struggling with for over a century and has recently captured the attention of the people. Last month, members of the Sacramento Building Healthy Communities...
View ArticleHigh Teen Pregnancy Rates in California Foster Care
Teen pregnancy rates in California are at an all-time low but it is opposite for the youth in our state’s foster care system. Youth within the state’s foster care system pregnancy rates are at an...
View ArticleOnline scholarships elusive, lucrative
Looking back, many people consider their time in college to be some of the best years of their lives, despite the high financial burden. But nowadays, college students can use the Internet to find...
View ArticleA Glance into My Independence
The celebration of our nation’s independence is today, and this holiday has special meaning to many Americans because on this day about 200 years ago our journey as a country began. On the day’s...
View ArticleVIDEO: Boys and Men of Color Annual Youth Summit
The Boys and Men of Color organization held their annual youth summit in hopes for a better future for everyone. This day provided an opportunity for the youth to voice their opinions on different...
View ArticleFood Literacy Center To Hold Cooking Classes
Do not mess up another meal! The Food Literacy Center will be holding free cooking classes on Saturday July 25th and on Monday August 3rd to help you make the best meal possible. The Food Literacy...
View ArticleLocal Community Counseling Center Obtains Maple Elementary Schoolyard
La Familia Counseling Center and its partners, Fairy Tale Town and 916 Ink, have been granted access to the Maple Elementary School Yard. The old Maple Elementary School was closed in 2013 along with...
View ArticleWalking Home From School Brings Benefits and Risks
Recently, the Surgeon General released a nation wide call for action to get people in America to walk more and for cities to provide more walkable areas for citizens. This is a movement designed to...
View ArticleWhile Workers Fight For Better Wages, CEO’s Enjoy Their End Of Pay Gap
It really does pay to be the boss. This fact is becoming more and more explicit in the United States. Many citizens want to end this trend and have recently been fighting politically for closing the...
View ArticleVideo: Surgeon General Calls for Walkable Communities
The new and busy Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has recently released a nation wide call for action to get people to walk more and to provide walkable communities. Check out this video to see the...
View ArticleNational Bullying Prevention Month
This month people all across the nation have focused to prevent bullying. The negative effects that bullying have on people and students are being highlighted during this month. One of the leading...
View ArticleLocal Community Leaders Come Together to Celebrate the 1 Year Anniversary of...
In California, many released inmates have a tough time turning their life around because the felonies on their record limits their capabilities to advance. Recently, Sacramento community leaders came...
View ArticleParenting Style and Environment Linked to Childhood Obesity
The rate that children are becoming obese is growing worldwide. In an effort to combat the rise of obesity, a team of researchers from Montreal conducted a study to find out how parenting style and the...
View ArticleResearchers Discover Binge Drinking may be Harmful to Adolescent Brains
According to a new study from Duke University, researchers have found that binge drinking when you are a teenager can leave long term changes to your brain. The part of the brain that is mostly...
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