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Brittney Millard: Helping Patients and Persevering Through Breast Cancer
Cancer can be many things. Some describe cancer as a journey, a struggle, or a fight. For Brittney Millard, a breast cancer diagnosis was a life-changing event that gave her the passion to help other cancer survivors. “It’s really what’s in your heart. You can [help] people you know in your daily life, just spreading ...
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Game Changer: San Antonio Police to Notify Schools if Kids Exposed to Trauma
Diana Centeno knows kids exposed to traumatic events don’t get the support they need at school. Doug Greene knows police…
ACES, Increasing Recognition
How a Children’s Museum Morphed into a Latino Community Hub
Steve Long knows the mission of the Children’s Museum of the East End is to spark imagination, play, and learning for al…
Education, Embracing All People
Superintendent’s State Crusade to Help Schools Help Students of Trauma
Bob Stewart knew that some students were frequently missing class or dropping out of the Gladstone School District in Gl…
ACES, Increasing Recognition
Raheem Baraka’s Support Group for Latino Grandparents Raising Grandkids
Family separations. Broken families. Little social support. In these tough times, abuela and abuelo often have to step u…
Access
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 All People, 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…
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…
ACES, Access
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, Health & Cohesion, 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…
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…
ACES, Health & Cohesion, Healthy Families & Schools, Increasing Recognition