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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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Ex-Football-Coach Creates Trauma-Sensitive Schools to Reduce Absenteeism in San Antonio
John Hernandez coached football in three disadvantaged school districts in Texas. When a player missed practice, Hernand…
Healthy Families & Schools, Trauma & ACESHow to Turn a Latino Food Desert into a Healthy Food Oasis
Healthy food activists Erick Kornacki and Joseph Teipel have a phrase to call the 81% Latino neighborhood of Westwood in…
Healthcare Access, Healthy Food, Healthy Neighborhoods & CommunitiesTexas Border City Turns Bus Stop into Fun Play Place
Sit and wait. That’s what most people do at bus stops. Robert de León Robert de León, a business management analyst with…
Healthy Neighborhoods & Communities, Transportation & MobilityTeacher Plants a SEED to Help Latinos Learn English, Engage in Schools
Growing up in Texas, Cameron Allen knew he wanted to be a teacher. How could Allen be the best teacher possible in Texas…
Education, Healthy Families & SchoolsMom’s Homecoming Mums Raise Awareness for Youth Mental Health
Everything is bigger in Texas. Especially “mums”—those big, flashy, expensive corsages of colorful streamers, bells, and…
Education, Mental HealthArtist’s Fake Ads Save Historic Streetcars in Border City
The streetcar is back along the Texas-Mexico border, thanks to a Latino man’s brilliant “fake” ad campaign. Peter Svarzb…
Healthy Families & Schools, Healthy Neighborhoods & Communities, Transportation & MobilityRocio Muñoz Embeds School Health Navigators for Latino Parents
Latinos face many barriers to health care, including language differences; complex and confusing documents and processes…
Healthcare Access, Healthy Families & Schools, Healthy FoodHealth Worker Alma Galvez Helps Families ‘Rethink’ Their Sugary Drink
Alma Galvez was sick of seeing a growing number of overweight Latino child patients at her clinic in Minneapolis, Minn….
Healthy Food, Healthy Neighborhoods & Communities, WaterFree Training Helps Early Childcare Providers Grow Healthy Kids
Dr. Kathy Fletcher knows the first three years of a child’s life are critical for preparing kids to grow and mature into…
Education, Healthy Families & SchoolsHealth Workers Start Mega Baby Showers for Moms in Need
Kori Eberle calls early and steady prenatal care the “best gift a baby can receive” for healthy early childhood developm…
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