Oakland’s Fruitvale transit village puts health care close to the community with an onsite clinic.
Month: November 2012
Despite tax increases approved by voters last week, the latest state fiscal review from the Legislative Analyst says California will still face a $1.9 billion shortfall in the fiscal year that begins July 1 2013. But after that, the report says, revenues should climb faster than expenses, producing the first surplus in years at the end of the 2014-15 fiscal year, and annual surpluses could climb to $9 billion after that. But the LAO cautions that these numbers assume that the Legislature and governor don’t add new programs, and the analyst suggests that the state use the surplus to build a healthy reserve and begin paying down its public employee retirement obligations. See the full report here.
Over the past year, a $25 million program launched in Hayward to turn around a troubled neighborhood.
Standing in the dusty stables of the Los Angeles Equestrian Center on a sweltering day recently, a half dozen teenage girls had just finished their horseback ride and were admiring the mighty animals munching on hay in their metal stalls. This wasn’t a traditional equestrian outing. It was to celebrate the end of a self-esteem program, Just for Us.
The health of nearly 1 million California children hangs in the balance this month as the state prepares to shift responsibility for their care to the troubled, cash-strapped Medi-Cal program from a popular service that subsidizes private insurance coverage, known as Healthy Families. Daniel Weintraub’s weekly essay.
Two immigrant populations – older adult refugees from war-torn Afghanistan, and the Sikh parents of Silicon Valley-bound tech workers – have found a haven in one southern Alameda County city committed to fostering cultural harmony among its ethnic seniors. In diverse Fremont, the cornerstone of this harmonic convergence is the city’s innovative outreach effort CAPS – Community Ambassador Program for Seniors – which recruits leaders from local ethnic communities to guide members through the labyrinth of available healthcare and social services.
Oakland’s next big experiment in transit-oriented development may be overshadowed, literally and figuratively, by the city’s freeways.
Health care reform will bring big changes to community clinics that treat the poor and uninsured. For the first time, many of their patients will be eligible for insurance and reimbursements will eventually replace grant funding for clinics. Unfortunately, patients may not know understand what kind of assistance they can get or know how to navigate the new insurance exchange.
What happens when a shoddily built trailer park in Thermal, which housed mostly poor undocumented farmworkers, is hit by a flood.
While today’s youth culture moves at the speed of a Kardashian shopping spree, a growing movement heralds the talents of older adults with creative intergenerational programs blossoming throughout California.