LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – Survivors and victims impacted from 1 October get to express all the feelings they continue to feel by customizing lanterns and reflecting five years later.The Vegas Strong Resiliency Center held a virtual lantern ceremony where people impacted by the 1 October shooting could pre-register for a free kit to create a lantern.Fuente de Vida Mental Health Services, a bilingual organization, hosted an in-person lantern ceremony at United Way.Fuente de Vida and Make the Road to Nevada were two organizations that immediately helped victims families and survivors that were undocumented, immigrant and only spoke Spanish.Leo Murrieta…
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Now a new reading guide celebrating picture books and illustrations available in every branch library in Cork aims to break down barriers to children’s reading.Picture This features over 230 recommended reads for children and young people aged 0–18, each one reviewed by experts in children’s literature. The guide makes books of all kinds accessible to children across Cork, including those who may have reading difficulties or whose first language may not be English or Irish.Each review is accompanied by a ‘Read also’ recommendation, bringing the total of books included to over 450.Picture This focuses on books with strong visual narratives,…
Oklahoma Children’s Hospital OU Health to provide enhanced rooms and equipment to Pediatric Behavioral Health patients OKLAHOMA CITY — Pediatric behavioral health patients who arrive in emergency rooms are often placed in spaces with limited privacy, space and safety mechanisms as parents are unsure of where to take their children in a behavioral health crisis. Three emergency department rooms at Oklahoma Children’s Hospital OU Health have been renovated to create an environment that is not only safer for these patients and providers, but also conducive to healing. Pediatric behavioral health patients often wait for long periods for placement in appropriate…
Hispanic employees at CHI Health say they hope to bring more Hispanic people into the health care industry, while also making current employees feel welcome. That’s why they started ‘HOLA,’ CHI’s Hispanic Outreach and Leadership Affinity group.Kandy Truong is the clinic administrator for the CHI Health clinic at 42nd and L in South Omaha.”I would say 80% of our staff our bilingual in Spanish, so they have an affinity in regards to the Hispanic Heritage,” Truong said.She has Vietnamese heritage, but she’s determined to advocate for the many Hispanic employees and patients at her clinic. So, she joined HOLA.”(I have)…
Sacramento –Senate President pro Tempore Toni G. Atkins (D-San Diego) and Senator Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield) announced that Senate Bill 1183, their bipartisan legislation in partnership with The Dollywood Foundation to establish the Imagination Library of California Statewide Program, has been signed by Governor Newsom. The Imagination Library of California statewide program will work with local partners in each county to mail free, age-appropriate books directly to California’s early readers every month, from birth until age five. SB 1183, which establishes the statewide program under the direction of the State Librarian, is the first time Senators Atkins and Grove have coauthored…
Houston Astros Mascot, Orbit, and the Shooting Stars Cheerleaders visited patients at Texas Children’s Hospital Cancer and Hematology Center as part of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. (Texas Children’s Hospital)HOUSTON – Orbit, the Houston Astros mascot, and the Shooting Stars Cheerleaders visited patients at Texas Children’s Hospital Cancer and Hematology Center at the end of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. During his visit, Orbit delivered two Nintendo Switch gaming systems, sponsored by the Starlight Children’s Foundation and donated by the Major League Baseball and Astros.According to a release, the gaming systems are custom-made and portable. Patients can take the games to their…
Logo Women Palante Workshops will be in Spanish, held over eight Saturday afternoons from October to December in Montgomery County, Maryland featuring leading Latinas. The workshops will teach low-income Latina women how to balance their lives and handle their money better”— Yurani SandovalROCKVILLE, MARYLAND, USA, September 30, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — Women Palante is proud to announce the launch on Saturday, October 8, 2022, of their second-ever Wellness & Personal Finances workshop. In this workshop, Women Palante seeks to close the gap between holistic wellbeing and personal finances literacy for Latina women.This year’s focus will be on two main themes: i)…
Children’s author Robert Munsch has sold more than 82m copies of his books and entertained generations of readers with his tender and sharp sense of humour.His stories have been translated into 45 languages, including 20 Indigenous languages and dialects. He still receives about 10,000 fan letters a year, and has two public schools named after him.On Saturday, a Canadian actor hopes to honour the writer’s towering legacy in a feat of endurance: reading all 75 books in a single day.“The plan is to just go straight through, from book to book to book,” said M John Kennedy, who estimates his…
The Friends of the Library sale in support of the library is taking place on Oct. 28 and 29, having been rescheduled from September; Lisa Bird-Wilson will visit the book club in person to talk about Finding Ruby; the latest book launch from Saskatoon author David Carpenter, and more. The Friends of the Library sale in support of the library is taking place on Oct. 28 and 29, having been rescheduled from September; Lisa Bird-Wilson will visit the book club in person to talk about Finding Ruby; the latest book launch from Saskatoon author David Carpenter, and more. Adult programming The Moose…
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