Posts Tagged as "community"

Long Beach Children’s Clinic

Aug. 1, 2013 / By
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The Long Beach Children’s Clinic mission is “… is guided by our mission ”to provide quality, integrated, innovative health care that will contribute to a healthy community, focusing on those in need and working with patients and the community as partners in their overall well-being.”..

Independent Film Premiere in Long Beach: The Game Don’t Change, Just The Players

Aug. 1, 2013 / By
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Long Beach Post’s Sander Wolff profiles a very special film premiering this weekend. 

Read more at Long Beach Post..

Celebrating Latin American Culture in Central LB

Jul. 19, 2013 / By
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[Ed. Note: Last Sunday, residents in Central Long Beach came together to hold “La Gran Tardeada” for the first time...

Housing Long Beach Outlines Priorities For Upcoming Housing Element Of City’s General Plan

Jun. 5, 2013 / By
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By Samantha Mehlinger – Staff Writer, Long Beach Business Journal

Housing Long Beach (HLB) is advocating priorities to be included in the city’s updated Housing Element draft, which is being reviewed by the city’s planning commission and released to the public June 20...

1 Minute And 45 Seconds That’ll Make You Think Twice About Poverty

Jun. 5, 2013 / By
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Let’s dialogue on this.

In their new book, Confronting Suburban Poverty in America, co-authors Elizabeth Kneebone and Alan Berube describe the recent rapid rise in suburban poverty and lay out a new metropolitan policy agenda that uses limited resources in more effective ways to create better connections between low-income residents and economic opportunity region-wide...

Long Beach Violence Prevention Plan Community Safety Meeting

May. 22, 2013 / By
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The City of Long Beach invites you to a Community Safety Meeting about the LBVPP.  We want to hear from you. ..

‘Why Are There So Many Filipino Nurses in the US?’

May. 19, 2013 / By
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Asian Week, News Report, Rodel Rodis

This was the question posed to me by a curious TV news reporter on May 7, just three days after a stretch limousine, carrying nine Filipino nurses to a bridal party across the San Mateo Bridge, suddenly burst into flames killing five of the occupants, including the bride...

Keeping Khmer Alive in Long Beach

May. 8, 2013 / By
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Video by Sarah Bennett

It’s 10AM on a Saturday morning and Bryant Sokphanarith Ben is about to begin his class...

We Rise by Ti Tavai and ‘aikona

May. 5, 2013 / By
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Why I wrote We Rise by, Ti Tavai

Working on the Dear Mr. Warren Buffett video and being in the theater watching the Waters Rising dance performance by Tuvalu, Tokelau and Kiribati residents helped and inspired me to create a song for the people in the community with high air pollution and climate change, how they are impacted by that everyday...

Health Happens With All Our Sons & Brothers

May. 5, 2013 / By
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A core part of The California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities 10-year initiative is a commitment to improve the health and well-being of boys and men of color.  ..