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We're able to look at age of sterilization and also patterns related to gender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So there's a whole range of patterns that will help us to understand this pattern of history in California and also how it relates to national dynamics more broadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_273662\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 427px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/12/Alex-Stern-U.-of-Mich.jpg\" alt=\"University of Michigan professor Alex Stern has completed a database of thousands recommended for sterilization when California had eugenics laws on the book and she says those alive should be compensated.\" width=\"427\" height=\"320\" class=\"size-full wp-image-273662\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/12/Alex-Stern-U.-of-Mich.jpg 427w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/12/Alex-Stern-U.-of-Mich-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/12/Alex-Stern-U.-of-Mich-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/12/Alex-Stern-U.-of-Mich-375x281.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">University of Michigan professor Alex Stern has completed a database of thousands recommended for sterilization when California had eugenics laws on the book and she says those alive should be compensated. \u003ccite>(Michigan Photography)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On what Stern and her team found with regard to age and gender patterns\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, we found that people were sterilized at very young ages, that really often the focus was on minors, people as young as 7. The average age of sterilization was the low 20s, so many of these people were 15, 16, 17 and 18. We also found that, as I mentioned before, that the Spanish surname individuals were more likely to be sterilized at younger ages, indicating that there was interest on behalf of the state at targeting them at lower reproductive ages. In terms of gender, that pattern that I just mentioned, pertains to women as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the interesting things that we discovered is that initially, more men were sterilized. It started off as sterilization in general and across the country and in California, focused more on men in the teens and 20s and into the 30s. But by the 1930s, that pattern started to change. So by the '40s and '50s, more women were being sterilized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On what kinds of \"mental diseases\" were focused on \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's very important to take that terminology with many historic grains of salt. If we go back in time and look at what the terms meant, it often meant people who were not conforming to societal norms, people who were poor, people who lacked education, perhaps didn't speak sufficient English to make it through school, and so on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what it meant for those who were enacting the law were people who were determined to have poor IQs, people with certain psychiatric disorders. But generally, often the way it was used was much more as a catch-all category — so people who just didn't fit, kind of like the misfits of society, so to speak. That's the way they looked at them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking back on it, I would say that those who were institutionalized — because many more people where institutionalized than actually sterilized — was because maybe they had a psychiatric condition and they were sent to an institution as was the policy at the time in the mid-20th century. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for the most part, this program of eugenics ... the idea of sterilization was to eradicate certain genes from the population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On whether anyone among those who were sterilized are still alive\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I haven't found anyone who's still alive. I have been contacted by relatives ... people who contacted me whose aunts or uncles were sterilized at some of these institutions. In the recent paper that my team published, we determined through statistical analysis that it is likely that slightly over 800 people, about 500 women and 300 men, are alive today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those numbers don't map on to exact people, they don't correspond to a precise person. But what we've done, we've generated the most reliable estimates, and based on that estimate and also looking at the timing, we estimate that the majority of these people were sterilized between 1945 and 1949 and their average age is about 88, so fairly old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what we could do is we could go and look at the records. And that's where I'd like to work with the state of California, because we've essentially created a eugenics registry. We can look at the records and identify likely individuals and then reach out and contact them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I, however, would like to mention that two states that have enacted policies for monetary reparations for sterilization victims — North Carolina and Virginia — the states have to lead in kind of creating a committee and a registry. And because it was the state seeking to provide some type of redress and acknowledge this history, the state was able to actively set up a program and seek out and try to identify individuals. So they would come to the state and they would confirm through documentation that they had been sterilized and then receive recognition and monetary compensation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On if there are indications that California is interested in compensating victims of sterilization\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's indication that the state is interested in this history and is aware of possibility of sterilization abuse. Just three years ago, news broke that about 150 women in two California women's prisons \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2013/09/20/219366146/calif-seeks-answers-on-questionable-prison-sterilizations\">had been sterilized\u003c/a> without proper consent and proper procedure. That resulted in a state audit in the interest of the state legislators and eventually, a law that was unanimously passed, banning sterilizations except under extreme medical circumstances in California state prisons. So this issue is on the radar screen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's easy to forget about these patients who were in these remote institutions in the 1940s and '50s in California. However, I think it behooves the state to not forget this history, and all of us to not forget this history. So hopefully, having this fairly solid number that we've generated of an estimate of likely living survivors could help facilitate that process. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Asian Health Services, a community health center in Oakland’s buzzing Chinatown, sees about 6,000 dental patients a year. Hundreds of others are on a waiting list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We simply cannot meet the demand,” said Dr. Huong Le, the center’s dental director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now that voters have passed soda taxes in Oakland, Albany and San Francisco, Le and other Bay Area health providers are eyeing millions of dollars in revenue that could help more patients prevent obesity and dental decay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Bay Area is trying to lead the way in putting soda tax revenues to good use, and cities around the country are watching closely. Some are considering soda taxes of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Soda taxes are going to be spreading like wildfire,” said Harold Goldstein, executive director of the Davis-based nonprofit Public Health Advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Berkeley, also in Alameda County, passed the \u003ca href=\"http://californiahealthline.org/news/is-berkeleys-new-soda-tax-a-tipping-point-or-an-outlie/\" target=\"_blank\">nation’s first such tax \u003c/a>in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the tax, which takes effect Jan. 1, 2018, is expected to raise up to $15 million annually. Meanwhile in the smaller city of Albany, the tax took effect immediately and is projected to garner $223,000 each year. In Oakland, the penny-per-ounce tax on the distribution of sugar-sweetened beverages is projected to bring in up to $8 million each year, some of which will be used for health education and prevention programs in schools and the community. It takes effect in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We felt this was very important because of the dental needs we see within our patient population,” Le said. “We know there’s a strong link between tooth decay and sugary beverages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The link between sugary beverages and obesity, diabetes and tooth decay is well-established. People who drink one or two cans of sugary drinks per day have a 26 percent greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to one \u003ca href=\"https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/sugary-drinks-fact-sheet/\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> by the Harvard School of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A separate study found that for every 12-ounce soda consumed by a child each day, their odds of becoming obese increased by \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11229668\" target=\"_blank\">60 percent\u003c/a>. Soda also has been tied to dental erosion which can lead to cavities, according a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2676420/\" target=\"_blank\">2009 study\u003c/a>. The most frequent sources of erosive acids are soft drinks like cola, the study found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a report earlier this this year, an oversight commission criticized the state’s dental program for the poor, finding that California is seeing an “epidemic of tooth disease in which toddlers by the thousands have mouthfuls of cavities, children and adults are plagued with toothaches.” This is made worse when families struggle to get an appointment with a dentist, the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland and the rest of Alameda County, \u003ca href=\"http://www.acgov.org/board/bos_calendar/documents/DocsAgendaReg_7_14_14/HEALTH%20CARE%20SERVICES/Regular%20Calendar/Alameda_County_Report_Exec_Summ_Obesity_Rpt.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">one third\u003c/a> of children consume one or more sugary drinks a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s city council will establish a community advisory board to oversee the distribution of soda tax money, and local health advocates want to make sure they’re well-represented, Le said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://khn.org/news/soda-taxes-gaining-steam-or-getting-steamrolled/\" target=\"_blank\">Goldstein\u003c/a> said the fact that measures recently passed in all three Bay Area cities by a notable margin — in Oakland the tax was approved with 61 percent of the vote — shows that Californians grasp the harmful effects of sugary drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soda taxes, he said, are significant because they raise money to be used in the fight against obesity and other chronic conditions, and they reduce the consumption of sugary drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Berkeley’s low-income neighborhoods, the consumption of soda and other sweetened beverages decreased by 21 percent in the months after the 2014 tax began, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2016.303362\" target=\"_blank\">UC Berkeley study\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study also showed a 63 percent increase in the consumption of bottled or tap water. It is not clear whether these results are due to the higher retail prices of sugary drinks or to the increased awareness on the health effects associated with the beverages, the study notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldstein said similar outcomes can be expected in Oakland, San Francisco and Albany, as well as in Boulder, Colo., where voters also passed a similar tax in November. This drives up the total number of cities with soda taxes to six — Philadelphia passed a 1.5 cents-per-ounce tax in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Beverage Association, which has lobbied heavily against soda taxes nationwide, doesn’t see a movement. Spokeswoman Lauren Kane said that \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/us-beverages-sodatax-bloomberg-idUSKCN0Z3275\" target=\"_blank\">43 soda tax proposals have been rejected \u003c/a>since 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The association will continue to focus on reducing calories and sugar in beverages, Kane said. These taxes, Kane said, are only a Band-Aid solution to the larger national obesity problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they are a start, said Elizabeth Bautista, a health educator at La Clinica, a health center in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood, home to the city’ largest Latino population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bautista and 15 volunteer health educators known as promotoras engaged their community in the soda tax discussion by going door-to-door and making hundreds of calls to registered voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge now, Bautista said, is to continue to motivate people to choose alternatives to sugary drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The promotoras often share stories of what they see in the field: toddlers with soda in their bottles, and families walking out of dollar stores with grocery bags full of juices and sports drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a serious problem in our community, and there is so much misinformation floating around,” Bautista said. She often hears from families that fruit-flavored sodas are not as harmful as dark sodas. “That of course is not true; that’s a myth we have to eliminate,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria Reyes, one of the promotoras, said the clinic is starting additional nutrition and physical activity classes — a healthy cooking class, for example, is expected to be of great interest. These are the type of activities that could be expanded by funds from the soda tax, Reyes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reyes believes soda tax advocates in Oakland learned a lot from battles lost in other California cities, such as Richmond and El Monte, where voters rejected soda taxes in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We learned that we needed a coalition and that we needed to focus the discussion on diabetes and obesity prevention,” Reyes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The promotoras say they are now hearing from community groups in Contra Costa cities interested in following in their footsteps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a big win,” Reyes said. “Once we start seeing results, I think more cities will join us.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nThis story was produced by \u003ca href=\"http://khn.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Kaiser Health News\u003c/a>, which publishes \u003ca href=\"http://californiahealthline.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California Healthline\u003c/a>, an editorially independent service of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.chcf.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California Health Care Foundation\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Berkeley, also in Alameda County, passed the \u003ca href=\"http://californiahealthline.org/news/is-berkeleys-new-soda-tax-a-tipping-point-or-an-outlie/\" target=\"_blank\">nation’s first such tax \u003c/a>in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the tax, which takes effect Jan. 1, 2018, is expected to raise up to $15 million annually. Meanwhile in the smaller city of Albany, the tax took effect immediately and is projected to garner $223,000 each year. In Oakland, the penny-per-ounce tax on the distribution of sugar-sweetened beverages is projected to bring in up to $8 million each year, some of which will be used for health education and prevention programs in schools and the community. 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The most frequent sources of erosive acids are soft drinks like cola, the study found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a report earlier this this year, an oversight commission criticized the state’s dental program for the poor, finding that California is seeing an “epidemic of tooth disease in which toddlers by the thousands have mouthfuls of cavities, children and adults are plagued with toothaches.” This is made worse when families struggle to get an appointment with a dentist, the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland and the rest of Alameda County, \u003ca href=\"http://www.acgov.org/board/bos_calendar/documents/DocsAgendaReg_7_14_14/HEALTH%20CARE%20SERVICES/Regular%20Calendar/Alameda_County_Report_Exec_Summ_Obesity_Rpt.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">one third\u003c/a> of children consume one or more sugary drinks a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s city council will establish a community advisory board to oversee the distribution of soda tax money, and local health advocates want to make sure they’re well-represented, Le said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://khn.org/news/soda-taxes-gaining-steam-or-getting-steamrolled/\" target=\"_blank\">Goldstein\u003c/a> said the fact that measures recently passed in all three Bay Area cities by a notable margin — in Oakland the tax was approved with 61 percent of the vote — shows that Californians grasp the harmful effects of sugary drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soda taxes, he said, are significant because they raise money to be used in the fight against obesity and other chronic conditions, and they reduce the consumption of sugary drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Berkeley’s low-income neighborhoods, the consumption of soda and other sweetened beverages decreased by 21 percent in the months after the 2014 tax began, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2016.303362\" target=\"_blank\">UC Berkeley study\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study also showed a 63 percent increase in the consumption of bottled or tap water. It is not clear whether these results are due to the higher retail prices of sugary drinks or to the increased awareness on the health effects associated with the beverages, the study notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldstein said similar outcomes can be expected in Oakland, San Francisco and Albany, as well as in Boulder, Colo., where voters also passed a similar tax in November. This drives up the total number of cities with soda taxes to six — Philadelphia passed a 1.5 cents-per-ounce tax in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Beverage Association, which has lobbied heavily against soda taxes nationwide, doesn’t see a movement. Spokeswoman Lauren Kane said that \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/us-beverages-sodatax-bloomberg-idUSKCN0Z3275\" target=\"_blank\">43 soda tax proposals have been rejected \u003c/a>since 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The association will continue to focus on reducing calories and sugar in beverages, Kane said. These taxes, Kane said, are only a Band-Aid solution to the larger national obesity problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they are a start, said Elizabeth Bautista, a health educator at La Clinica, a health center in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood, home to the city’ largest Latino population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bautista and 15 volunteer health educators known as promotoras engaged their community in the soda tax discussion by going door-to-door and making hundreds of calls to registered voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge now, Bautista said, is to continue to motivate people to choose alternatives to sugary drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The promotoras often share stories of what they see in the field: toddlers with soda in their bottles, and families walking out of dollar stores with grocery bags full of juices and sports drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a serious problem in our community, and there is so much misinformation floating around,” Bautista said. She often hears from families that fruit-flavored sodas are not as harmful as dark sodas. “That of course is not true; that’s a myth we have to eliminate,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria Reyes, one of the promotoras, said the clinic is starting additional nutrition and physical activity classes — a healthy cooking class, for example, is expected to be of great interest. 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"content": "\u003cp>Brittany Jones is burrowed into her seat on a BART car, catching some sleep before the morning commuters arrive. As the car starts to fill with people, she finally pulls down her jacket, uncovering her face. The whoosh of the doors, the sweaty surge of denim and backpacks: This is her alarm clock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones is 24, a student at Laney College in Oakland, and homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To study and survive at the same time, she must answer the same questions over and over. Can she afford dinner tonight? Will she be able to sit next to the secret outlet in the BART car so she can charge her phone? Can she get a job that still allows her to go to class and keep her grades up? These are just some of the challenges Jones and other homeless college students face in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/297579027″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”400″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many undergraduates, homeless college students are young, ambitious and wracked by insecurities about their identities and futures. But their specific insecurity is chronic and exhausting: They live in cars, couch surf and sneak into campus buildings to spend the night. Unfortunately, these experiences are more common than many ever suspected.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘It’s hard, it’s really hard’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://cceal.org/food-housing-report/\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> released Dec. 5 reveals that one out of three community college students in California grapples with some form of housing insecurity, up to and including homelessness. Black men, Southeast Asians and multiethnic students are particularly affected, according to the report from the \u003ca href=\"http://cceal.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Community College Equity Assessment Lab\u003c/a> at San Diego State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t remember what home feels like,” said 24-year-old Ebony Ortega, an ethnic studies major at \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfsu.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco State University\u003c/a>. Ortega sleeps in her car, at friends’ apartments or at secret spots on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been quite some few years since I’ve felt like there’s some sort of comfort, security and just stability,” she added. “It’s hard, it’s really hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11211331\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11211331\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23167_161201_EbonyOrtega_bhs02-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Ebony Ortega, a college student at San Francisco State University experiencing housing insecurity, studies on her computer during her work breaks. Ortega currently works at a Starbucks in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23167_161201_EbonyOrtega_bhs02-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23167_161201_EbonyOrtega_bhs02-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23167_161201_EbonyOrtega_bhs02-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23167_161201_EbonyOrtega_bhs02-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23167_161201_EbonyOrtega_bhs02-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23167_161201_EbonyOrtega_bhs02-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23167_161201_EbonyOrtega_bhs02-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23167_161201_EbonyOrtega_bhs02-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23167_161201_EbonyOrtega_bhs02-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ebony Ortega, a college student at San Francisco State University experiencing housing insecurity, studies on her computer during her work breaks. Ortega currently works at a Starbucks in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nationally, more than 56,000 students identified as homeless on their 2013-2014 Federal Student Aid forms. But experts believe that’s an undercount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many students do not check that box on their financial aid either because they don’t know it’s there, or they don’t think of themselves as homeless,” said \u003ca href=\"https://web.csulb.edu/colleges/chhs/departments/social-work/staff-and-faculty/RashidaCrutchfield.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rashida Crutchfield\u003c/a>, an assistant professor in the School of Social Work at California State University, Long Beach. Students who couch surf, for example, might not realize they are technically homeless, or may resist the stigma of that label.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Invisible Population\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Another study found that one reason the population is hard to quantify is because these students are “invisible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither Brittany Jones nor Ebony Ortega fits the stereotypical image conjured up by the word “homeless.” Ortega cultivates a punk-rock look and works long shifts at a Starbucks in downtown San Francisco. She spends her paycheck on tuition instead of rent, because she can’t afford both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My parents did not just come here for me to hang out, and just have some regular working-class job,” Ortega said. Her parents immigrated from Mexico, and she grew up poor in Palmdale (Los Angeles County).\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/12/08/homelessu-a-college-students-life-without-shelter/\" target=\"_blank\">PHOTOS: A Day in the Life of a Homeless College Student\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/12/08/homelessu-a-college-students-life-without-shelter/\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/BrittanyJones800.jpg\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Follow a day in the life of homeless Laney College student Brittany Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/12/08/homelessu-a-college-students-life-without-shelter/\" target=\"_blank\">Homeless U: Homework Without A Home\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I get scared that if I stop, I won’t be able to get up and do what I do now,” she added. “I’m already this far. So it’s just like, I might as well keep going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones, for her part, takes pains with her thrift-store outfits, and sports a new hairstyle practically every week. She’s acutely conscious of her hygiene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t feel like just because I’m homeless that I have to look the part,” she said, while walking by a tent encampment under a freeway in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Jones grew up at great risk for homelessness: Her mother died when she was 5, and her father was fatally shot when she was just a newborn. She spent years in foster care, and since age 19 has essentially been homeless: bouncing between relatives, group homes and shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Trunk-Sized Safe Space\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A year ago, Jones had a bed in a transitional home for former foster youth. She explained she lost that spot when she broke the rules, letting a guest in when she wasn’t supposed to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, she sleeps where she can: couches and floors when they’re offered, buses and BART trains when they’re not. She always carries a change of clothes, laundry detergent and toiletries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, Jones stayed up all night on a San Francisco pier, and a week before that at a 24-hour Carl’s Jr. When that happens, she heads to a BART station by 4 a.m., to catch the day’s first train. Aside from a friend’s apartment, it’s the only place she feels safe actually falling asleep. A few hours later, she wakes and drags herself off, eager to avoid the stares of the rush-hour crowds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”qX6cO3dkrSWbMdIuXgcrvh51LvzEiRWM”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After graduating from high school in Antioch, Jones wasn’t convinced college was for her. Instead, she came to the conclusion gradually while working overnight jobs as a security guard or grocery stocker. Years went by, but she never advanced financially or professionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to go to college to better myself, honestly,” Jones said. “I want to be in a totally better situation. I know school is the key.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones calls \u003ca href=\"http://www.laney.edu/wp/\" target=\"_blank\">Laney College\u003c/a>, near Lake Merritt in Oakland, one of her “safe zones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This semester she is taking an English class and a life-skills class. As a low-income student, she receives a monthly food stipend for the campus cafeteria. But none of her classmates know she is homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones has another safe zone: a stuffy storage locker no bigger than a car trunk in industrial West Oakland. She’ll spend a few hours a day there doing homework, organizing her belongings or writing in her journal.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Moving Forward\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As more colleges and universities gain an understanding of the scope of housing and food insecurity among their students, they’re experimenting with solutions. Some campuses have established \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article41478480.html\" target=\"_blank\">food pantries\u003c/a>, and others provide short-term housing for students in crisis, or those who have nowhere to go for the holidays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, California enacted new laws to assist homeless college students. Community colleges, for example, must grant homeless students priority when registering for classes, allow them \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/09/21/governor-signs-bills-to-help-homeless-college-students-and-boost-4-year-graduation-rates/\" target=\"_blank\">access to campus showers\u003c/a> and designate a staff person to assist them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students are also organizing: UC Berkeley now has a Homeless Student Union, and in October two UCLA students opened the Bruin Shelter in Santa Monica for anyone enrolled at UCLA or other schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James de la Nueve, a civil engineering student at Santa Monica College, is one of the shelter’s first residents. He was kicked out of his house after a family fight, and said the shelter helps keep him focused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m trying to be on the academic track,” he said. “I’m not trying to continue being on the streets forever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rashida Crutchfield at CSU Long Beach likes the idea of a college shelter, but said it’s not enough. If she were a student, she said, “It’s important to maybe catch me before I’m homeless and make sure I’m getting the financial support that I need, or getting access to support services that I need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11211588\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11211588\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23255_IMG_2158-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Residents and volunteers study at the Bruin Shelter, a new shelter for homeless college students in Santa Monica.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23255_IMG_2158-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23255_IMG_2158-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23255_IMG_2158-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23255_IMG_2158-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23255_IMG_2158-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23255_IMG_2158-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23255_IMG_2158-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23255_IMG_2158-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23255_IMG_2158-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents and volunteers study at the Bruin Shelter, a new shelter for homeless college students in Santa Monica. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Internal Support\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For Brittany Jones, the daily search for shelter is an awkward social tiptoe. She sends texts to friends and relatives every evening, hoping one will ping her back and offer her a place to stay. She doesn’t want to ask outright.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t like to like wear out my welcome,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although her parents are dead, Jones has mental conversations with them every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like they’re the ones listening to me,” she explained. “I like to look in the mirror and talk to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without a home, Jones has constructed an internal shelter made up of memories, role models, and her hopes and dreams for a college degree, perhaps in business or social work. “I just try to be, like, my own support system. 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Ortega currently works at a Starbucks in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23167_161201_EbonyOrtega_bhs02-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23167_161201_EbonyOrtega_bhs02-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23167_161201_EbonyOrtega_bhs02-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23167_161201_EbonyOrtega_bhs02-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23167_161201_EbonyOrtega_bhs02-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23167_161201_EbonyOrtega_bhs02-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23167_161201_EbonyOrtega_bhs02-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23167_161201_EbonyOrtega_bhs02-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23167_161201_EbonyOrtega_bhs02-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ebony Ortega, a college student at San Francisco State University experiencing housing insecurity, studies on her computer during her work breaks. Ortega currently works at a Starbucks in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nationally, more than 56,000 students identified as homeless on their 2013-2014 Federal Student Aid forms. But experts believe that’s an undercount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many students do not check that box on their financial aid either because they don’t know it’s there, or they don’t think of themselves as homeless,” said \u003ca href=\"https://web.csulb.edu/colleges/chhs/departments/social-work/staff-and-faculty/RashidaCrutchfield.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rashida Crutchfield\u003c/a>, an assistant professor in the School of Social Work at California State University, Long Beach. Students who couch surf, for example, might not realize they are technically homeless, or may resist the stigma of that label.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Invisible Population\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Another study found that one reason the population is hard to quantify is because these students are “invisible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither Brittany Jones nor Ebony Ortega fits the stereotypical image conjured up by the word “homeless.” Ortega cultivates a punk-rock look and works long shifts at a Starbucks in downtown San Francisco. She spends her paycheck on tuition instead of rent, because she can’t afford both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My parents did not just come here for me to hang out, and just have some regular working-class job,” Ortega said. Her parents immigrated from Mexico, and she grew up poor in Palmdale (Los Angeles County).\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/12/08/homelessu-a-college-students-life-without-shelter/\" target=\"_blank\">PHOTOS: A Day in the Life of a Homeless College Student\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/12/08/homelessu-a-college-students-life-without-shelter/\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/BrittanyJones800.jpg\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Follow a day in the life of homeless Laney College student Brittany Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/12/08/homelessu-a-college-students-life-without-shelter/\" target=\"_blank\">Homeless U: Homework Without A Home\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I get scared that if I stop, I won’t be able to get up and do what I do now,” she added. “I’m already this far. So it’s just like, I might as well keep going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones, for her part, takes pains with her thrift-store outfits, and sports a new hairstyle practically every week. She’s acutely conscious of her hygiene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t feel like just because I’m homeless that I have to look the part,” she said, while walking by a tent encampment under a freeway in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Jones grew up at great risk for homelessness: Her mother died when she was 5, and her father was fatally shot when she was just a newborn. She spent years in foster care, and since age 19 has essentially been homeless: bouncing between relatives, group homes and shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Trunk-Sized Safe Space\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A year ago, Jones had a bed in a transitional home for former foster youth. She explained she lost that spot when she broke the rules, letting a guest in when she wasn’t supposed to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, she sleeps where she can: couches and floors when they’re offered, buses and BART trains when they’re not. She always carries a change of clothes, laundry detergent and toiletries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, Jones stayed up all night on a San Francisco pier, and a week before that at a 24-hour Carl’s Jr. When that happens, she heads to a BART station by 4 a.m., to catch the day’s first train. Aside from a friend’s apartment, it’s the only place she feels safe actually falling asleep. A few hours later, she wakes and drags herself off, eager to avoid the stares of the rush-hour crowds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After graduating from high school in Antioch, Jones wasn’t convinced college was for her. Instead, she came to the conclusion gradually while working overnight jobs as a security guard or grocery stocker. Years went by, but she never advanced financially or professionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to go to college to better myself, honestly,” Jones said. “I want to be in a totally better situation. I know school is the key.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones calls \u003ca href=\"http://www.laney.edu/wp/\" target=\"_blank\">Laney College\u003c/a>, near Lake Merritt in Oakland, one of her “safe zones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This semester she is taking an English class and a life-skills class. As a low-income student, she receives a monthly food stipend for the campus cafeteria. But none of her classmates know she is homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones has another safe zone: a stuffy storage locker no bigger than a car trunk in industrial West Oakland. She’ll spend a few hours a day there doing homework, organizing her belongings or writing in her journal.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Moving Forward\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As more colleges and universities gain an understanding of the scope of housing and food insecurity among their students, they’re experimenting with solutions. Some campuses have established \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article41478480.html\" target=\"_blank\">food pantries\u003c/a>, and others provide short-term housing for students in crisis, or those who have nowhere to go for the holidays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, California enacted new laws to assist homeless college students. Community colleges, for example, must grant homeless students priority when registering for classes, allow them \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/09/21/governor-signs-bills-to-help-homeless-college-students-and-boost-4-year-graduation-rates/\" target=\"_blank\">access to campus showers\u003c/a> and designate a staff person to assist them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students are also organizing: UC Berkeley now has a Homeless Student Union, and in October two UCLA students opened the Bruin Shelter in Santa Monica for anyone enrolled at UCLA or other schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James de la Nueve, a civil engineering student at Santa Monica College, is one of the shelter’s first residents. He was kicked out of his house after a family fight, and said the shelter helps keep him focused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m trying to be on the academic track,” he said. “I’m not trying to continue being on the streets forever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rashida Crutchfield at CSU Long Beach likes the idea of a college shelter, but said it’s not enough. If she were a student, she said, “It’s important to maybe catch me before I’m homeless and make sure I’m getting the financial support that I need, or getting access to support services that I need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11211588\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11211588\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23255_IMG_2158-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Residents and volunteers study at the Bruin Shelter, a new shelter for homeless college students in Santa Monica.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23255_IMG_2158-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23255_IMG_2158-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23255_IMG_2158-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23255_IMG_2158-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23255_IMG_2158-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23255_IMG_2158-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23255_IMG_2158-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23255_IMG_2158-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23255_IMG_2158-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents and volunteers study at the Bruin Shelter, a new shelter for homeless college students in Santa Monica. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Internal Support\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For Brittany Jones, the daily search for shelter is an awkward social tiptoe. She sends texts to friends and relatives every evening, hoping one will ping her back and offer her a place to stay. She doesn’t want to ask outright.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t like to like wear out my welcome,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although her parents are dead, Jones has mental conversations with them every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like they’re the ones listening to me,” she explained. “I like to look in the mirror and talk to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without a home, Jones has constructed an internal shelter made up of memories, role models, and her hopes and dreams for a college degree, perhaps in business or social work. “I just try to be, like, my own support system. 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"content": "\u003cp>Loneliness can be a problem for older people, especially when they're in the hospital. Their children may have moved away. Spouses and friends may themselves be too frail to visit. So a California hospital is providing volunteer companions in the geriatric unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the volunteers at the UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica is 24-year-old Julia Torrano. She hopes to go to medical school. Meanwhile, her twice-weekly volunteer shifts give her a lot of practice working with patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them is Estelle Day. She's 79 years old, a slender woman with a wild mane of hair that is still mostly red. Torrano peppers her with questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Where were you originally from?\" asks Torrano. Day replies that she grew up on Long Island in New York. Torrano also wants to know how Day met her husband, where she learned to play the harp, where her travels have taken her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Day is happy to answer everything. She says she likes people and describes herself as \"windbaggy.\" That's especially true if she's talking about playing music. She is a lifelong musician and retired music teacher. She plays harp and guitar, but her favorite instrument is the pipe organ. \"To be able to rock a building under your hands and your feet is exciting,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was Day's fifth day as a patient in the geriatric unit. She says multiple chronic conditions brought her here, but she didn't want to name them. Visible were a bulky back brace she wears for her osteoporosis, an IV drip and a heart monitor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When that heart monitor suddenly began beeping, Torrano was out of the room like a shot. She returned seconds later with a nurse who solved the problem with the push of a button.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/500222611/502841593\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torrano and the other volunteer companions aren't just candy stripers, bringing snacks and magazines. She knew what to do when the heart monitor started beeping because, like all of the volunteers in this program, she's been trained. As \u003ca href=\"http://www.geronet.ucla.edu/research/researchers/476\">Dr. David Reuben\u003c/a>, chief of geriatrics at the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA explains: \"Just because you're willing to do something doesn't mean you know how to do it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers learn about medical confidentiality, what to do in an emergency, and how to interact with patients, including patients with dementia. Reuben says they go through a \"vigorous training process and vetting process before we allow them to be with patients.\" There are nearly three dozen volunteers so far. The program started just a few months ago, and the hospital plans to expand it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loneliness is a legitimate medical issue. There are a number of studies linking loneliness and social isolation in old people to poorer health and earlier death, including one published earlier this month in \u003ca href=\"http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2575729\">JAMA Psychiatry\u003c/a> associating loneliness, social isolation and brain changes typical in Alzheimer's. Reuben cautions that those studies weren't done in a hospital setting. Nevertheless, he says, \"you might suspect that being more engaged, more energized ... might promote a speedier recovery.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So now the hospital is designing studies to find out if the volunteer companionship improves medical outcomes, or at least improves the patient's experience in the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torrano says she'll sometimes spend her entire four-hour shift with a single patient. Like Estelle Day, many are happy to share their life stories. She remembers one man in particular who had been a political prisoner in Iran. He'd run an underground newspaper. \"He was in jail so much,\" she recalls, yet he told her he also misses Iran. \"Even though it was very traumatic, he still wishes he was there,\" Torrano says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estelle Day says she's not especially lonely, but she has been alone much of the time since she was admitted to the geriatric unit. So it helps to have a companion who will not only listen to her life story, but can also troubleshoot the little problems that can make life in a hospital such a challenge. \"Somebody who is sensitive and tuned-in and is very helpful,\" explains Day, the way Torrano was when Day's heart monitor started acting up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And companionship can take many forms. On the day of Torrano's visit, one of Day's most pressing issues was fixing her hair. It had been shoved up in a rubber band since she was admitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So with Day's encouragement, Torrano picks up a comb and gently begins detangling. 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"content": "\u003cp>Darius Irvin grew up in violent neighborhoods in Oakland and San Francisco. While Irvin was never in a gang, he was around them a lot. One winter when he was back home in Oakland from his freshman year of college up in Chico, he knocked on the door of his barbershop. He wanted a local haircut to show off when he returned to school. Before he could get inside, though, he heard gunshots and felt a piercing pain in his buttock. He'd been shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He survived, but the recovery took almost two years. Then he was shot again, this time at a party in Oakland. A stray bullet hit him in the back right shoulder, where it remains today. After more recovery, he planned to move to San Francisco for a fresh start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/293730059\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While job searching, he stopped at a convenience store in the city. There again, the gunshots found him. \"I pretty much remember the freezer glasses busting, chip bags popping over the shots ringing out,\" Irvin says. He fell to the ground, sitting in his own blood, thinking \"Is this true? This can’t be happening right now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time he was shot with nine bullets, again by someone he did not know. He was rushed to \u003ca href=\"http://zuckerbergsanfranciscogeneral.org/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco General Hospital\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was there something unexpected happened. \"All I know is I woke up and there was Popeyes,\" Irvin recalls, referring to one of his favorite fast food restaurants. \"I had some Popeyes chicken on my bed, and I love Popeyes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because \u003ca href=\"http://violenceprevention.surgery.ucsf.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">the Wraparound Project\u003c/a> had stepped in to help. It's a program based at San Francisco General Hospital. Wraparound's goal is to reduce re-injury for young people who have been violently hurt, through either a shooting or stabbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11178940\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11178940\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21904_IMG_6081-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Texada (left) of The Wraparound Project stands with James Caldwell (center) and Joseph Kaulave (right) from the Street Violence Intervention Program. After a violent crime, their teams work together to prevent future injury for individuals and communities.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21904_IMG_6081-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21904_IMG_6081-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21904_IMG_6081-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21904_IMG_6081-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21904_IMG_6081-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21904_IMG_6081-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21904_IMG_6081-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21904_IMG_6081-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21904_IMG_6081-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Texada (left) of The Wraparound Project stands with James Caldwell (center) and Joseph Kaulave (right) from the Street Violence Intervention Program. After a violent crime, their teams work together to prevent future injury for individuals and communities. \u003ccite>(Laura Klivans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Repeat injury for survivors of violent crime is remarkably high. \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=0y4DBQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA231#v=onepage&q&f=false\" target=\"_blank\">Studies\u003c/a> show 44 percent of people who have been shot or stabbed get violently injured again within five years, and that one out of five of those people die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC San Francisco professor and doctor Rochelle Dicker saw this in her own practice. During her internship years ago at the SFGH Trauma Center, she stitched up a 16-year-old who'd been violently injured, only to see him return some weeks later with even worse injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Dicker started to look at violent injuries as a public health issue. \"Unless you go upstream a little bit to figure out ways to prevent future injury,\" she says, \"you’re really not putting a lasting effect on the idea of improving population health and improving individuals.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With that, Dicker created the Wrapround Project in 2006. The program literally provides \"wraparound\" services like mentorship, job training and even getting clients their favorite foods. The program serves 10- to 30-year olds who end up at SFGH. And there's no cutoff date for support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the program's founding 10 years ago, the return visit rate for violent injuries at the hospital has fallen from 16 to 4.5 percent. Programs based on Dicker's work have started in Indianapolis and Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This type of intervention work is expanding nationwide. Wraparound is part of the \u003ca href=\"http://nnhvip.org/\" target=\"_blank\">National Network of Hospital-based Violence Intervention Programs (NNHVIP)\u003c/a>, a growing group of programs across the United States that not only focus on re-injury prevention, but also on reducing retaliation for crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11178943\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11178943 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/21912_transform-2-800x561.jpg\" alt=\"A mural, painted by the father of a former client, marks the entrance to The Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/21912_transform-2-800x561.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/21912_transform-2-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/21912_transform-2-1020x715.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/21912_transform-2-1920x1346.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/21912_transform-2-1180x827.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/21912_transform-2-960x673.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/21912_transform-2-240x168.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/21912_transform-2-375x263.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/21912_transform-2-520x365.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mural, painted by the father of a former client, marks the entrance to the Wraparound Project at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. \u003ccite>(Laura Klivans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wraparound's case managers come from the same communities as the clients, which gets at the program's goal of providing culturally competent services, and staff like case manager Mike Texada intervene right as patients wake up and realize they’re alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We call it the teachable moment,\" he says. \"That’s when you have time to offer services, you got time to have a conversation, you got time to have dialogue with that individual who’s injured.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Texada met Darius Irvin, the case manager immediately saw Irvin light up when they talked about college. Irvin had lost hope about ever attending a four-year university after all his health setbacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I visited Darius at bedside and I told him about college he was like, 'Man, quit trying to gas me up,' \" Texada says about Irvin's incredulity. \"And I was like, 'Dude, I’m serious.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was. Texada connected Irvin to a program that helped him get into \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfsu.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco State University\u003c/a>, a college Irvin had dreamed of attending since high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now at 26, Irvin's a sophomore at SFSU. He studies juvenile justice and sociology, and he’s on the honor roll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s crazy,\" he says walking through the green, bustling campus. \"It’s kind of too good to be true.\" He points out his favorite spots on campus. \"Everything I’ve been wanting and looking for is coming to me on behalf of the university.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking at Irvin, you’d never know what he’s been through, or that he questioned if he'd ever be able to walk regularly again. But now he walks seamlessly, smoothly. When asked about it, he laughs and says, \"Chin up with a positive stride. It's called a 'thankful walk.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music in the audio version of this story is \u003ca href=\"http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Black_Ant/Free_Beats_Sel_3\" target=\"_blank\">\"Father Lee\" by Black Ant from \"Free Beats Sel. 3,\"\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Broke_For_Free/Layers/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Only Knows,\" \"The Collector,\" and \"Note Drop\" by Broke For Free from \"Layers.\"\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Darius Irvin grew up in violent neighborhoods in Oakland and San Francisco. While Irvin was never in a gang, he was around them a lot. One winter when he was back home in Oakland from his freshman year of college up in Chico, he knocked on the door of his barbershop. He wanted a local haircut to show off when he returned to school. Before he could get inside, though, he heard gunshots and felt a piercing pain in his buttock. He'd been shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He survived, but the recovery took almost two years. Then he was shot again, this time at a party in Oakland. A stray bullet hit him in the back right shoulder, where it remains today. After more recovery, he planned to move to San Francisco for a fresh start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/293730059&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/293730059'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While job searching, he stopped at a convenience store in the city. There again, the gunshots found him. \"I pretty much remember the freezer glasses busting, chip bags popping over the shots ringing out,\" Irvin says. He fell to the ground, sitting in his own blood, thinking \"Is this true? This can’t be happening right now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time he was shot with nine bullets, again by someone he did not know. He was rushed to \u003ca href=\"http://zuckerbergsanfranciscogeneral.org/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco General Hospital\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was there something unexpected happened. \"All I know is I woke up and there was Popeyes,\" Irvin recalls, referring to one of his favorite fast food restaurants. \"I had some Popeyes chicken on my bed, and I love Popeyes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because \u003ca href=\"http://violenceprevention.surgery.ucsf.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">the Wraparound Project\u003c/a> had stepped in to help. It's a program based at San Francisco General Hospital. Wraparound's goal is to reduce re-injury for young people who have been violently hurt, through either a shooting or stabbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11178940\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11178940\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21904_IMG_6081-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Texada (left) of The Wraparound Project stands with James Caldwell (center) and Joseph Kaulave (right) from the Street Violence Intervention Program. After a violent crime, their teams work together to prevent future injury for individuals and communities.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21904_IMG_6081-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21904_IMG_6081-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21904_IMG_6081-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21904_IMG_6081-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21904_IMG_6081-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21904_IMG_6081-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21904_IMG_6081-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21904_IMG_6081-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21904_IMG_6081-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Texada (left) of The Wraparound Project stands with James Caldwell (center) and Joseph Kaulave (right) from the Street Violence Intervention Program. After a violent crime, their teams work together to prevent future injury for individuals and communities. \u003ccite>(Laura Klivans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Repeat injury for survivors of violent crime is remarkably high. \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=0y4DBQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA231#v=onepage&q&f=false\" target=\"_blank\">Studies\u003c/a> show 44 percent of people who have been shot or stabbed get violently injured again within five years, and that one out of five of those people die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC San Francisco professor and doctor Rochelle Dicker saw this in her own practice. During her internship years ago at the SFGH Trauma Center, she stitched up a 16-year-old who'd been violently injured, only to see him return some weeks later with even worse injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Dicker started to look at violent injuries as a public health issue. \"Unless you go upstream a little bit to figure out ways to prevent future injury,\" she says, \"you’re really not putting a lasting effect on the idea of improving population health and improving individuals.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With that, Dicker created the Wrapround Project in 2006. The program literally provides \"wraparound\" services like mentorship, job training and even getting clients their favorite foods. The program serves 10- to 30-year olds who end up at SFGH. And there's no cutoff date for support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the program's founding 10 years ago, the return visit rate for violent injuries at the hospital has fallen from 16 to 4.5 percent. Programs based on Dicker's work have started in Indianapolis and Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This type of intervention work is expanding nationwide. Wraparound is part of the \u003ca href=\"http://nnhvip.org/\" target=\"_blank\">National Network of Hospital-based Violence Intervention Programs (NNHVIP)\u003c/a>, a growing group of programs across the United States that not only focus on re-injury prevention, but also on reducing retaliation for crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11178943\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11178943 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/21912_transform-2-800x561.jpg\" alt=\"A mural, painted by the father of a former client, marks the entrance to The Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/21912_transform-2-800x561.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/21912_transform-2-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/21912_transform-2-1020x715.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/21912_transform-2-1920x1346.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/21912_transform-2-1180x827.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/21912_transform-2-960x673.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/21912_transform-2-240x168.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/21912_transform-2-375x263.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/21912_transform-2-520x365.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mural, painted by the father of a former client, marks the entrance to the Wraparound Project at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. \u003ccite>(Laura Klivans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wraparound's case managers come from the same communities as the clients, which gets at the program's goal of providing culturally competent services, and staff like case manager Mike Texada intervene right as patients wake up and realize they’re alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We call it the teachable moment,\" he says. \"That’s when you have time to offer services, you got time to have a conversation, you got time to have dialogue with that individual who’s injured.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Texada met Darius Irvin, the case manager immediately saw Irvin light up when they talked about college. Irvin had lost hope about ever attending a four-year university after all his health setbacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I visited Darius at bedside and I told him about college he was like, 'Man, quit trying to gas me up,' \" Texada says about Irvin's incredulity. \"And I was like, 'Dude, I’m serious.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was. Texada connected Irvin to a program that helped him get into \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfsu.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco State University\u003c/a>, a college Irvin had dreamed of attending since high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now at 26, Irvin's a sophomore at SFSU. 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"content": "\u003cp>One out of five California adults with children living in their homes were beaten, kicked or physically abused when they were children, and one in ten were sexually abused, according to \u003ca href=\"http://tinyurl.com/z6drt5p\" target=\"_blank\">data \u003c/a>released recently by a children’s health foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts believe that’s an undercount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s probably a low estimate,” said Cassandra Joubert, director of the Central California Children’s Institute at California State University, Fresno. “I think these kinds of events within families are hush-hush, swept under the rug, not really talked about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Focusing on the abuse that parents have experienced is essential to interrupting the cycle of trauma, Joubert said. Adults who were abused or neglected as children often end up emulating their own parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost this mirroring effect,” Joubert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data were recently released by kidsdata.org, a program of the Palo Alto-based Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, to coincide with a recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.aces-ca.org/conference-info/\" target=\"_blank\">conference on adverse childhood experiences\u003c/a> in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other notable findings: 36 percent of adults with children living in their homes experienced verbal abuse as children; 19 percent witnessed domestic violence. In some counties, including San Bernardino, Contra Costa and Riverside, a fifth of adults who have children in their homes reported experiencing at least four different adverse childhood experiences growing up. Those experiences can include physical, sexual and verbal abuse, having parents divorce, and living with someone who suffers from mental illness or abuses drugs or alcohol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The findings come from data collected in a survey by the Public Health Institute. Marta Induni, research program director at the institute’s Survey Research Group, oversaw the survey of nearly 28,000 California residents. She said she has been particularly touched by the many people who have thanked her for asking them about painful and often stigmatized childhood experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that speaks to the importance of just putting this into the common vernacular: ‘Let’s talk about this,’” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bill to expand school-based mental health services for young children came to a halt in the state Senate Appropriations Committee this summer, because it did not include a way to fund the additional services. A spokesman for Assemblymember Rob Bonta (D-Oakland) said Bonta may propose that the state budget include additional funding for expanded services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wendy Davis, a 40-year-old resident of Clovis who works with Joubert as a training coordinator at the Children’s Institute, knows firsthand the effect childhood trauma can have on parenting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the age of five, Davis came to the United States from El Salvador with three of her siblings and her single mother. The family was “very, very poor,” Davis said. Her mother was almost always working, and was constantly stressed and frustrated, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was barely around,” Davis said. “The little that she was, wasn’t pleasant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis said she was abused emotionally and physically growing up, and she witnessed domestic violence against others in her home. She was sexually molested by people who floated in and out of the house, Davis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 18, Davis gave birth to her first son, Alex. She now has four sons, ranging in age from 6 to 21. After her youngest, Tye, was born, Davis spent a month in the hospital with serious health problems. Once she returned home, she experienced severe postpartum depression and didn’t want to hold Tye, or be near him. She blamed him for the illness she’d suffered after he was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Tye was four months old, Davis sought help. She started taking medication and going to therapy. There, she was able to recognize how profoundly her troubled childhood had impacted her. She finally began to bond with Tye. Today, she said, she and her youngest are “inseparable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has helped tremendously,” she said. “I wish I would have done it a lot sooner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Cloutier, executive director of the Center for Youth Wellness, said the data reinforce how crucial it is for pediatricians to screen children — and even their caregivers — for exposure to past traumatic experiences. 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