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Relying on Community Values: How One School Leader Advocates for Vulnerable Families

Relying on Community Values: How One School Leader Advocates for Vulnerable Families 7 min read Carissa Purnell, director of the Family Resource Centers for Alisal Union School District in Salinas, Calif., provides essential services and critical information to vulnerable families.Nic Coury for Education Week Carissa Purnell Expertise: Success District: Year: Copy URL Growing up in a large Filipino immigrant family in Sacramento, Calif., Carissa Purnell didn’t feel like she really fit into the local community. But that changed in 2010 when she started teaching English at a library in Salinas, Calif., while she was in graduate school. “It just felt like home as soon as I got here,” Purnell said of Salinas, a city roughly two hours south of San Francisco where nearly 80 percent of the residents are Hispanic.

Supervisors approve nearly $5 million to put trusted health workers into neighborhoods suffering under Covid

Concerned that three months would not be enough time to train and effectively deploy 100 community health care workers in the neighborhoods with the highest number of Covid-19 cases, the Monterey County Board of Supervisors today unanimously approved a six-month outreach and education program at a cost of nearly $5 million to begin in January. This is the biggest thing that we have ever been charged with doing and if we don’t step forth in a strong resolute way, I don’t think we are going to succeed, Supervisor Mary Adams said in the lead-up to the 5-0 vote. I think we have to make our mark, she said. We’ll probably be known as the first county to ever fully jump in and invest our dollars at the core. It will be lasting.

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