Autumn is in all its splendor and one of the most anticipated dates for children and adults is getting closer, where costumes, pumpkins and sweets will be the stars of a Halloween like no other in San Mateo County, meanwhile, these It is the local news from October 8 to 14 that you must know to be up to date.
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A report from San Francisco Department of Public Health shows that overdose deaths in San Francisco decreased in 2021 for the first time in three years.
The document published last week and titled "Substance Use Trends in San Francisco through 2021," showed that 625 people died from opioid, cocaine or methamphetamine overdoses in the city.
That number marked an 11 percent decrease from 2020 numbers. However, overdose deaths in 2021 were still 41 percent above what was reported in 2019. The health department said in a news release. that last year's figures continue to account for the substance abuse crisis that exists in the city.
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The Santa Clara County health care system could face a mass exodus of physicians due to poor working conditions and lack of respect from management.
More than 200 of the 288 physicians employed in the county do not plan to stay with Santa Clara Valley Medical Care - VMC - nearly 69 percent of whom plan to leave the system in the next three years, according to a survey conducted by Valley Physician Group. The group is a union representing more than 450 county-employed physicians.
Among those planning to leave, three out of five physicians cited that county administration did not respect them as the reason. More than 70 percent of physicians said they feel worse about their job compared to last year.
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The East Palo Alto City Council has placed Measure L on the November 8, 2022 ballot for voter consideration, which is intended to help fund general government uses and community priorities such as in terms of housing.
Measure L provides for programs that help pay rent for needy tenants; affordable and accessible housing programs; protect local tenants and landlords from displacement and homelessness.
Residential rents in the East Palo Alto area have increased substantially, transferring income from tenants to landlords, most of whom live outside East Palo Alto.
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The City of East Palo Alto approved the Water System Master Plan ?WSMP, for its acronym in English? 2022 and allocated nearly $8.4 million to design and build several key city water infrastructure projects over the next two years.
The WSMP aims to provide the city with a comprehensive drinking water infrastructure improvement plan for the next twenty years to maintain the reliability of the water system and support planned development in the city.
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Stanford Medicine in conjunction with Santa Clara Family Health Plan has made available workshops for community health workers focused on mental health to provide the tools needed to cope and help others.
The series will consist of 3 workshops in total and will focus on mental health with workshops dedicated to children and youth, adults and community health workers or promoters.
Interested parties can choose which workshops to attend, and should register to receive additional information, as well as a link to join via zoom to the workshops and an invitation to the calendar.
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Public health officials plan to go door-to-door in East Palo Alto neighborhoods next week to hear details about residents' climate challenges and how they are coping.
Survey teams are prepared to ask residents how they are threatened by extreme heat, sea level rise, wildfires, air quality and mosquitoes.
The survey results will be used to tell officials what resources East Palo Alto residents need and will also shape an emergency preparedness plan for the community.
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In the last two years, residents of San Mateo County have had to deal, like others across the country, with the loss, be it health, employment, economic or even loved ones, situations that they have worsened in communities such as Latinos, so mental health care has become a critical point to address in order to advance in daily life through the Power of Healing.
Around one in eight people in the world live with at least one mental disorder, among which depression and anxiety stand out, accounting for 25 percent of these cases. In the United States, approximately 40 percent of Hispanic adults say they are experiencing symptoms of depression, said Diana A. Otero, senior director of Special Projects for the Latino Community Foundation.
To put the topic on the table, the foundation held an informative session called "The Power Of Healing: Latinos & Mental Health", where, together with community leaders and non-profit organizations that support the Latino community in the Area of the BahÃa, sought to bring help in mental health to those who are going through a crisis due to the losses generated during the pandemic.
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Redwood City Police Department officers arrested a young suspect after he was taken into custody with a firearm that was allegedly fired on the night of August 2.
And it is that, it was during the night of that August 2 that around 8:43 p.m., the officers responded to a call to the 700 block of Cedar Street due to a report indicating that shots had been fired with a handgun. fire.
When officers arrived, a subject attempted to flee the scene, but was quickly caught up by officers. Following an investigation, on October 5, Redwood City detectives served an arrest warrant and a search warrant at the residence of 19-year-old Jesús Jahir Sosa Ortega, located in the 700 block of Cedar, where he was arrested on the charge negligent discharge of firearms, among others.
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