By Sammy Caiola, Capital Public Radio, August 27, 2019
A bulletin board at the La Familia Counseling Center in South Sacramento is crowded with flyers advertising everything from homework clubs to help with preparing taxes. The nonprofit center has offered free programs to the neighborhood’s large Latino population for decades. But in a year marked by immigration raids, mass shootings and family separations at the border, staff say it’s been a challenge to bring people together.
Executive director Rachel Rios recalls a recent event that drew lower-than-usual attendance. It was just a few days after the August 3 shooting in El Paso, Texas, that killed 22, many of the victims Latino.
“People were in fear, people called, ‘Are we still having summer lunch? Is it OK?’” she said.
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