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Prevention and Early Intervention (PEI) staff from the Dreamweaver Consortium (Indian Health Council, Southern Indian Health Council, Sycuan Medical/Dental Center and San Diego American Indian Health Center) united together to create a poster for the Active Living Research (ALR) poster reception, with the poster's slot sponsored by the Association of American Indian Physicians (AAIP). The poster included four quadrants with pictures, graphs and captions detailing the great research and work for Native children in San Diego County. The poster (pictured here) had perfect placement, right at the entrance to the reception. I would've taken a picture of the poster during the reception, but with the amount of traffic of onlookers and inquisitive researchers visiting the poster throughout the afternoon, it was nearly impossible! Thanks to PEI staff from the Dreamweaver Consortium--Martina, Art, Leon, Charity, and SDAIHC staff--for coming out to the reception and for unifying together to make such an awesome poster...it was a grand success!
The Youth Center was graced with the presence of Ana Ortiz, AmeriCorps from the American Red Cross, for a disaster preparedness training (special thanks to Kimberley for hooking us up with the Red Cross, you rock!). Youth members and staff learned about preparation for earthquakes, power outages, and other disasters that may occur here in the San Diego region. After taking a quiz on what we learned, the members were given disaster preparedness kits, which included first aid kits, information, and a bowl (which Coral is modeling here as a hat...fashionable, eh?). Thank you to Ana and the Red Cross for the information! Special note: if you're in the top bunk of a bunk bed during an earthquake, stay in bed and put a pillow over your head until the shaking is over. On the other hand, if you're on the bottom bunk, get off and find cover elsewhere, just in case the top bunk collapses. If you didn't know, now you know.
Dare I embarrass myself? And my boss? Sure...This footage was captured at Club 7's Valentine's Day party, "I <3 my <3," on the Rincon Indian Reservation. Little did we know that we were going to be participating in the dance-off. Oh, the agony...
We're going to start taking monthly field trips for Teen Day, and we began this month with a trip to Canyon Crest Academy to watch JP play basketball! Youth members made signs, wore CCA shirts given to us by JP's mom (THANKS!) and then enjoyed some frozen yogurt after the game. Many of our teens are so active in their high schools and their communities, and we hope to make our monthly field trips ways to highlight their achievements and involvement.
SDAIHYC was privy to the traditions of Chinese New Year last night, when we feasted on foods that are traditional around China and other parts of Asia during this season: noodles for long life, chicken for unity, tangerines for luck and spring rolls for wealth. Red apples dotted the chicken curry, mirroring the red paper around the Youth Center with Chinese writing calling for a happy new year, announcing the "Year of the Dragon," and others with the character "double happiness," like the one on the food table at right. After dinner, our winter intern Yue Helen Tang gave a presentation about traditional Chinese medicine.
We're going to start taking monthly field trips for Teen Day, and we began this month with a trip to Canyon Crest Academy to watch JP play basketball! Youth members made signs, wore CCA shirts given to us by JP's mom (THANKS!) and then enjoyed some frozen yogurt after the game. Many of our teens are so active in their high schools and their communities, and we hope to make our monthly field trips ways to highlight their achievements and involvement.
