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Rosa Herrera: Get the Vaccine for Your Family!
Rosa Herrera knows how difficult the battle with COVID-19 can be. Two of her daughters were really sick with COVID-19 in October 2020 and were hospitalized during their infections. Herrera herself got sick, too, but had a mild case. “It was really scary. I couldn’t see them and since both of them were hospitalized at ...
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Minerva Perez Busts Fear, Builds Mental Health Support for Latino Immigrants
Fear. Of being deported. Losing homes. Losing children. Minvera Perez knows Latino immigrants live in constant fear in E…
Embracing Immigrants, Mental Health
Raheem Baraka Makes Latino Family Health a Civil Rights Issue in Boston
Raheem J. Baraka grew up seeing health inequity all around him in Boston (19% Latino). He saw people in one low-income n…
Healthcare Access
Doctor’s Mental Health & Resiliency Training for Immigrant Kids─in School!
Dr. Heyman Oo treated a lot of traumatized child immigrants while a pediatric resident at Zuckerberg San Francisco Gener…
Healthcare Access, Trauma & ACES
Residents Prevent Private Road from Cutting off a Trail
As an avid cyclist, Brian Pearson loved riding the new $8 million hike-and-bike trail in his town of Fall River, Mass. (…
Green & Active Spaces, Healthy & Cohesive Cultures, Healthy Neighborhoods & Communities, Increasing Civic Engagement, Transportation & Mobility
One Man’s Drive to Get Buses Moving in San Antonio
A few years ago, San Antonio City Council member Rey Saldaña tried his own transportation experiment. He ditched his car…
Healthcare Access, Healthy Families & Schools, Healthy Neighborhoods & Communities, Transportation & Mobility
No More Us vs. Them: Trauma Training is Rebuilding Police-Community Trust
Police came to four-year-old Fatimah Muhammad’s house in Newark, N.J. (34% Latino), after an altercation between her par…
Healthy & Cohesive Cultures, Healthy Families & Schools, Overcoming Harmful Biases, Trauma & ACES
Houston Doctor Starts Unique Clinic to Help Young Adults with Diabetes
Latino youth are facing a rising diabetes crisis. Many lack support needed to manage their disease. That’s why Dr. Sirip…
Healthcare Access, Healthy Families & Schools
Minerva Perez’s Free Ride Program Helps Latinos Overcome ‘Transportation Bullies’
Minerva Perez hates bullies. In elementary school, Perez did not like when bullies picked on her friends. She became the…
Healthcare Access, Healthy Families & Schools
Nurses Visit Homes to Help First-Time Moms Create Healthy Kids, Families
Sylvia Lopez knows low-income mothers need lots of support in South Texas and San Antonio. Lopez knows the research that…
Maternal & Child Health
How One National Park is Attracting Latino Visitors
Cam Juarez knows the bad stats. Latinos are just 2% of visitors to Saguaro National Park, despite being 40% of the popul…
Green & Active Spaces, Healthy Neighborhoods & Communities