Throughout the month of July, Home Start, a local nonprofit dedicated to child abuse prevention and providing evidence-based family strengthening services is collecting donations for its Back-to-School Backpack Drive, benefiting children who use Home Start services. Home Start is collecting backpacks, pens, pencils, binders, reusable water bottles, and more to…
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The city of Santee is one of the recipients of nearly $17 million in state funds to help individuals experiencing homelessness along the San Diego riverbed. The funds will be used to help them find more permanent housing and connect them with needed services. “This grant is the result of…
By Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Xiaoming Zheng Navy Office of Comm unity Outreach SASEBO, Japan – Chief Petty Officer Brennan Hayes, a native of San Diego, California, serves the U.S. Navy in Japan. Hayes attended Granite Hills High School and graduated in 2004. Hayes joined the Navy 17 years…
The San Diego County Senior Transportation Program, a county-sponsored program to increase transportation access for older adults announced the expansion of its free ride service for low-income seniors in rural and urban communities across the county, including wheelchair- accessible transportation. This expansion of services is to ensure all older adults…
Twenty percent of Americans will get skin cancer in their lifetime. That’s one out of five Americans. Fifty percent of Caucasians by the age of 50 will develop skin cancer, said Sharp Community Medical Group dermatologist Dr. Mona Mofid, who added that for the most part it comes from a…