June 2018

If you work directly with people in Napa County and consider yourself a paraprofessional, you can apply to the year long RAISE: Resilience, ACEs Integration, Support & Education program offered by Resilient Napa with support from Napa County Mental Health. To apply, simply complete a short online application and have your manager/supervisor complete a participation agreement. If you are a manager/supervisor, please recommend the program to employees you think would benefit from learning...

It started as an answer to a youth-led campaign. Young people in arts programs in San Francisco Bay Area schools had produced spoken word videos about inequities in their communities that helped put them at risk for type 2 diabetes. Dr. Jean Junior The response by their peers was enormous, according to Dr. Jean Junior, who volunteered for the project as a pediatric resident at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF). “Young people would say ‘You’ve actually gotten me interested.

Photo by Terabass/ CC-SA-3.0 It was around 2010 that Dr. Angela Bymaster was seeing a disturbing pattern in the histories of her adult patients. She already knew that patients who saw her at the Valley Homeless Health Care Program in San Jose, CA, where she worked at the time, were homeless or recently homeless. What was most troubling to Bymaster was knowing that their current precarious existence could have been prevented. Dr. Angela Bymaster “Over and over and over again I was hearing the...