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It’s an imposing monument to justice in a city plagued by crime and poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the security checkpoint and up the elevator to the 12th floor, there is a one-of-a-kind courtroom in California that’s taking a different approach to handling child welfare cases involving babies and toddlers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside its door, books and toys fill a waiting room. In one corner, there’s a cozy gliding chair to nurse or rock a baby to sleep and a soft mat that invites kids to play on the floor. Colorful paintings hang on the wall, showcasing Compton’s unique features, like the black cowboys who ride horses through the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998822\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-117_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998822\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-117_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A woman dressed in black clothing stand in a room with a play set and toys behind her.\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-117_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-117_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-117_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-117_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-117_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-117_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Judge Ashley Price inside the general waiting room that she has revamped to be more welcoming to families visiting her courthouse in Compton on July 31, 2024. Zaydee Sanchez/KQED \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We realized that we really wanted to create a space where the children and their families could wait and feel a little bit more comfortable when they have to come to court,” said Ashley Price, a dependency court judge who oversees this courtroom, “It’s already stressful and overwhelming as it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, young children, especially babies under 1 year old, are removed from their homes and placed in the child welfare system \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/cdss-programs/child-welfare-early-childhood/data\">far more than older kids\u003c/a>. They also tend to have longer stays in foster care. It’s a traumatic experience that takes place during a pivotal period of attachment and development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Price is transforming the way she handles cases involving children under 3 years old by intentionally putting their mental health at the center of decision-making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bedrock of our court is recognizing how harmful separation can be and can we find a way around that with extra help and support,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998533\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-120-ZS-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998533\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-120-ZS-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"The outside of a tall building with a few palm trees in the front.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-120-ZS-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-120-ZS-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-120-ZS-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-120-ZS-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-120-ZS-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-120-ZS-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Los Angeles County Superior Court in Compton. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parents come to dependency court when child protective services investigate them for mistreatment or neglect. A judge holds hearings to decide whether the allegations are true and whether the child should be a dependent of the court, which gives it authority to make decisions about the child’s care and home placement. The judge and lawyers work out a temporary living arrangement, which may require placing the child with a relative or in foster care while the parents work on meeting certain safety and behavioral criteria – like completing substance abuse treatment or parenting classes – to keep their parental rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price modeled her courtroom after \u003ca href=\"https://www.zerotothree.org/our-work/itcp/the-safe-babies-court-team-approach/\">Safe Babies\u003c/a>, a national program by the child advocacy organization Zero To Three, which prioritizes building relationships with parents and providing them the social services they need so they can meet the court’s requirements and quickly reunify with their babies. While not every baby gets returned to their parents, the program aims to provide services that strengthen the parent-child relationship, even if the baby is ultimately placed with a relative or adoptive parent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998821\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-109_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998821\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-109_qed.jpg\" alt='A sign on a table that says \"Free hugs.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-109_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-109_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-109_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-109_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-109_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-109_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A table with a sign providing free hugs can be seen inside Judge Price’s courtroom in Compton. Zaydee Sanchez/KQED \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To do that, Price partnered with attorneys representing the parents, children and Los Angeles County’s Department of Children and Family Services. The same attorneys from each team appear before her court every day, so they’re familiar with every case and family they see. Before starting the program, they visited social service providers in the community so they could better refer families to those organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For example, if we’re going to send our families to a place to have anger management classes, our courtroom has been there, too,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared with other courtrooms in LA County’s vast dependency court system, this one has a lower caseload and is specially staffed with a community coordinator to connect families to the social services they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Falcioni, an attorney with Los Angeles Dependency Lawyers, said he typically handled 130 cases before being assigned to the Compton dependency court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Compton, with what we’re doing here, which is arguably radically different than the existing system, my caseload is right around 50,” he said. While every dependency court’s goal is to reunify families, he said the lower caseloads in Price’s courtroom give the judge, lawyers and social workers more time to weigh factors, like the parents’ circumstances or the baby’s mental health, that other courts may not have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re able to provide a lot more oversight, not like a police state type of oversight, but in a more restorative justice mindset of how do we come alongside this family that could be hurting, could be dealing with that level of dysfunction that’s placing their children at risk of harm, to breathe peace and sanity and restoration into this family,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-121-ZS-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998534\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-121-ZS-KQED.jpg\" alt='The outside of a building with a sign that reads \"Superior Court of California County of Los Angeles Compton Court.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-121-ZS-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-121-ZS-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-121-ZS-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-121-ZS-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-121-ZS-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-121-ZS-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles County Superior Court in Compton. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leslie Heimov, executive director of Children’s Law Center, said her organization is dedicating more financial resources to allow her staff to maintain a low caseload in Price’s courtroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said when she began defending children 30 years ago, there was no process for ensuring that when a baby is removed from home, the parent shares information to the foster caregiver about the baby’s favorite lullaby, eating or sleeping routine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because we’re in such an adversarial, high-stress and often law enforcement-involved situation, all the things that are good for babies and small children are out the window because there’s this focus on safety first, but safety to the exclusion of well-being,” Heimov said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she’s excited about Price’s courtroom style because it asks all parties to work toward a solution that promotes the baby’s mental health and well-being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998531\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-105-ZS-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998531\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-105-ZS-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A stuffed animal giraffe stands in the back seating area with a blue illustration on the wall of cars on the road.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-105-ZS-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-105-ZS-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-105-ZS-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-105-ZS-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-105-ZS-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-105-ZS-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stuffed giraffe stands near a seating area inside Judge Price’s dependency courtroom at the Los Angeles County Superior Courthouse in Compton. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In her courtroom, Price provides snacks and crayons to help families get through their hearings. In one corner, there’s a tall stuffed giraffe that she said has been a hit with the kids. She also makes a point of sitting at a desk facing parents instead of presiding from a bench above them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of times, I think that has contributed to this feeling that parents are constantly being judged and criticized,” she said. “And so I like to kind of take away that dynamic and come down and sit with them at their same level and look at them eye to eye and talk to them about what do you need? How can we help you? How can we support you?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moana Galala, 28, appeared before the judge last November after giving birth to her second daughter, Eliza. A social worker was worried Galala wasn’t fit to care for the baby because she had a history of addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001982\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-119-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001982\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-119-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holds a young child dressed in green on a inflatable apparatus.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-119-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-119-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-119-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-119-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-119-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-119-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galala plays with her four-year-old daughter, Nevaeh, in Carson on Aug. 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Four years earlier, she lost custody of her first daughter, Nevaeh, after the newborn tested positive for drugs. The circumstances were dire: In June 2020, Galala underwent an emergency C-section alone in the hospital because of pandemic restrictions. She was placed in a medically-induced coma after her blood pressure spiked, and she suffered cardiac arrest. When she was released from the hospital, she wasn’t allowed to see the girl she named “Heaven” in reverse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right after I gave birth to her, they took her from me,” Galala said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galala said that experience sent her spiraling downward. A dependency court in Monterey Park, east of downtown Los Angeles, gave Galala’s sister custody of Nevaeh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went through a bad depression. My postpartum was horrible,” she said. “You know, it made me drown myself in drugs even worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she was ordered to appear before Price, Galala begged the judge for a chance to prove herself as a mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After consulting with social workers and lawyers, Price allowed Galala to stay with Eliza – on the condition that they move in with a relative and that she undergoes rehab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001983\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-120-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001983\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-120-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two young children play in a white inflatable house.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-120-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-120-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-120-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-120-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-120-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-120-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nevaeh and Eliza play in the jumpy house with their one-year-old cousin Kassy at a family event in Carson. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“At first, I was only allowed to be with Eliza at my mom’s, but I was not allowed to go anywhere with Eliza until I had proof that I was able to stay in program for at least 30 days,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she did, she celebrated by taking her daughter to the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And even though the baby was still a baby, it was just the principle,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galala said the court team celebrated every milestone, like when her husband Eric got clean and took parenting classes. When the couple won back their parental rights eight months later, Galala thanked Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told her she gave me a chance to bond with my baby that let me know the importance of my part to her as a mom. And that’s what made the difference in my drive to do good, continue being sober,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-129-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001986\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-129-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holds a young child with other adults in the background.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-129-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-129-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-129-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-129-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-129-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-129-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galala holds her daughter Eliza as she and her sisters buy from a local clothing stand in Carson. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Galala said her entire family came to the last court hearing, and Price and the lawyers gave her a framed picture with the word “HOPE.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The word stands for the court’s name: Helping Our Parents Excel. The court team also signed their names and included their phone numbers on the back of the frame, Galala said, to let her know she can call whenever she needs them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She thanked them for treating her fairly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have this saying that I tell my sister all the time: ‘I’m never above you, never below you, always beside you.’ And I was telling them, ‘this is how I feel about you guys,’” Galala said. “‘You guys weren’t better than us, and we weren’t below you guys. We were just side by side trying to accomplish a goal together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, her recovery from addiction has led Galala to heal her relationship with her sister, which allowed her to be more involved in Nevaeh’s life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001985\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-128-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001985\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-128-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a white shirt holds the hand of a young child in a bounce house as another young child watches above them.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-128-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-128-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-128-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-128-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-128-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-128-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galala’s sister, Apo, plays with Nevaeh and her daughter, Kassy, in the bounce house at a family event in Carson. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_12001659,news_12001846,news_12000933\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court is compiling data to measure the impact of this work, but Price said so far she’s seeing a difference. The court team has reunified families more quickly, reflecting \u003ca href=\"https://www.zerotothree.org/resource/resource/safe-babies-approach-evidence-and-impact\">a similar outcome seen by Zero to Three\u003c/a> at more than 140 courtrooms in 30 states that are taking a similar approach\u003ca href=\"https://www.zerotothree.org/resource/resource/safe-babies-approach-evidence-and-impact\">.\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0190740923005236?via%3Dihub\">A study found \u003c/a>children whose cases went before a Safe Babies courtroom had a higher rate of reunifying with their parents than a comparison group and were more likely to exit foster care to a permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the attorneys are telling me is that the parents leave the courtroom, and even if they don’t get a favorable ruling, they understood what happened,” Price said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When parents feel like they’re being heard and are treated respectfully, they’re more willing to continue cooperating in their child’s best interest, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Editor’s Note\u003c/strong>:\u003cem> An earlier version of this article incorrectly named Ben Falcioni’s organization. He is an attorney with Los Angeles Dependency Lawyers, not Children’s Law Center.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Babies and toddlers are placed in the child welfare system far more than older kids. A unique courtroom in Compton is trying to change that pattern by supporting their parents so they can better care for their kids.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1726604988,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":45,"wordCount":2056},"headData":{"title":"She Almost Lost Custody of Her Baby; a Unique LA County Court Gave Her a Second Chance | KQED","description":"Babies and toddlers are placed in the child welfare system far more than older kids. A unique courtroom in Compton is trying to change that pattern by supporting their parents so they can better care for their kids.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"She Almost Lost Custody of Her Baby; a Unique LA County Court Gave Her a Second Chance","datePublished":"2024-09-17T04:00:56-07:00","dateModified":"2024-09-17T13:29:48-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/b1747f32-96d2-4fd7-9270-b1ee0105d319/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-12004917","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/12004917/she-almost-lost-custody-of-her-baby-a-unique-la-county-court-gave-her-a-second-chance","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">O\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ne of the tallest buildings in South Los Angeles is the Compton courthouse. It’s an imposing monument to justice in a city plagued by crime and poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the security checkpoint and up the elevator to the 12th floor, there is a one-of-a-kind courtroom in California that’s taking a different approach to handling child welfare cases involving babies and toddlers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside its door, books and toys fill a waiting room. In one corner, there’s a cozy gliding chair to nurse or rock a baby to sleep and a soft mat that invites kids to play on the floor. Colorful paintings hang on the wall, showcasing Compton’s unique features, like the black cowboys who ride horses through the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998822\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-117_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998822\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-117_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A woman dressed in black clothing stand in a room with a play set and toys behind her.\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-117_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-117_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-117_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-117_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-117_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-117_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Judge Ashley Price inside the general waiting room that she has revamped to be more welcoming to families visiting her courthouse in Compton on July 31, 2024. Zaydee Sanchez/KQED \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We realized that we really wanted to create a space where the children and their families could wait and feel a little bit more comfortable when they have to come to court,” said Ashley Price, a dependency court judge who oversees this courtroom, “It’s already stressful and overwhelming as it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, young children, especially babies under 1 year old, are removed from their homes and placed in the child welfare system \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/cdss-programs/child-welfare-early-childhood/data\">far more than older kids\u003c/a>. They also tend to have longer stays in foster care. It’s a traumatic experience that takes place during a pivotal period of attachment and development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Price is transforming the way she handles cases involving children under 3 years old by intentionally putting their mental health at the center of decision-making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bedrock of our court is recognizing how harmful separation can be and can we find a way around that with extra help and support,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998533\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-120-ZS-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998533\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-120-ZS-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"The outside of a tall building with a few palm trees in the front.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-120-ZS-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-120-ZS-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-120-ZS-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-120-ZS-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-120-ZS-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-120-ZS-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Los Angeles County Superior Court in Compton. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parents come to dependency court when child protective services investigate them for mistreatment or neglect. A judge holds hearings to decide whether the allegations are true and whether the child should be a dependent of the court, which gives it authority to make decisions about the child’s care and home placement. The judge and lawyers work out a temporary living arrangement, which may require placing the child with a relative or in foster care while the parents work on meeting certain safety and behavioral criteria – like completing substance abuse treatment or parenting classes – to keep their parental rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price modeled her courtroom after \u003ca href=\"https://www.zerotothree.org/our-work/itcp/the-safe-babies-court-team-approach/\">Safe Babies\u003c/a>, a national program by the child advocacy organization Zero To Three, which prioritizes building relationships with parents and providing them the social services they need so they can meet the court’s requirements and quickly reunify with their babies. While not every baby gets returned to their parents, the program aims to provide services that strengthen the parent-child relationship, even if the baby is ultimately placed with a relative or adoptive parent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998821\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-109_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998821\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-109_qed.jpg\" alt='A sign on a table that says \"Free hugs.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-109_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-109_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-109_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-109_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-109_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-109_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A table with a sign providing free hugs can be seen inside Judge Price’s courtroom in Compton. Zaydee Sanchez/KQED \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To do that, Price partnered with attorneys representing the parents, children and Los Angeles County’s Department of Children and Family Services. The same attorneys from each team appear before her court every day, so they’re familiar with every case and family they see. Before starting the program, they visited social service providers in the community so they could better refer families to those organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For example, if we’re going to send our families to a place to have anger management classes, our courtroom has been there, too,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared with other courtrooms in LA County’s vast dependency court system, this one has a lower caseload and is specially staffed with a community coordinator to connect families to the social services they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Falcioni, an attorney with Los Angeles Dependency Lawyers, said he typically handled 130 cases before being assigned to the Compton dependency court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Compton, with what we’re doing here, which is arguably radically different than the existing system, my caseload is right around 50,” he said. While every dependency court’s goal is to reunify families, he said the lower caseloads in Price’s courtroom give the judge, lawyers and social workers more time to weigh factors, like the parents’ circumstances or the baby’s mental health, that other courts may not have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re able to provide a lot more oversight, not like a police state type of oversight, but in a more restorative justice mindset of how do we come alongside this family that could be hurting, could be dealing with that level of dysfunction that’s placing their children at risk of harm, to breathe peace and sanity and restoration into this family,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-121-ZS-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998534\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-121-ZS-KQED.jpg\" alt='The outside of a building with a sign that reads \"Superior Court of California County of Los Angeles Compton Court.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-121-ZS-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-121-ZS-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-121-ZS-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-121-ZS-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-121-ZS-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-121-ZS-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles County Superior Court in Compton. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leslie Heimov, executive director of Children’s Law Center, said her organization is dedicating more financial resources to allow her staff to maintain a low caseload in Price’s courtroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said when she began defending children 30 years ago, there was no process for ensuring that when a baby is removed from home, the parent shares information to the foster caregiver about the baby’s favorite lullaby, eating or sleeping routine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because we’re in such an adversarial, high-stress and often law enforcement-involved situation, all the things that are good for babies and small children are out the window because there’s this focus on safety first, but safety to the exclusion of well-being,” Heimov said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she’s excited about Price’s courtroom style because it asks all parties to work toward a solution that promotes the baby’s mental health and well-being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998531\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-105-ZS-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998531\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-105-ZS-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A stuffed animal giraffe stands in the back seating area with a blue illustration on the wall of cars on the road.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-105-ZS-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-105-ZS-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-105-ZS-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-105-ZS-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-105-ZS-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-105-ZS-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stuffed giraffe stands near a seating area inside Judge Price’s dependency courtroom at the Los Angeles County Superior Courthouse in Compton. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In her courtroom, Price provides snacks and crayons to help families get through their hearings. In one corner, there’s a tall stuffed giraffe that she said has been a hit with the kids. She also makes a point of sitting at a desk facing parents instead of presiding from a bench above them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of times, I think that has contributed to this feeling that parents are constantly being judged and criticized,” she said. “And so I like to kind of take away that dynamic and come down and sit with them at their same level and look at them eye to eye and talk to them about what do you need? How can we help you? How can we support you?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moana Galala, 28, appeared before the judge last November after giving birth to her second daughter, Eliza. A social worker was worried Galala wasn’t fit to care for the baby because she had a history of addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001982\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-119-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001982\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-119-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holds a young child dressed in green on a inflatable apparatus.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-119-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-119-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-119-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-119-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-119-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-119-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galala plays with her four-year-old daughter, Nevaeh, in Carson on Aug. 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Four years earlier, she lost custody of her first daughter, Nevaeh, after the newborn tested positive for drugs. The circumstances were dire: In June 2020, Galala underwent an emergency C-section alone in the hospital because of pandemic restrictions. She was placed in a medically-induced coma after her blood pressure spiked, and she suffered cardiac arrest. When she was released from the hospital, she wasn’t allowed to see the girl she named “Heaven” in reverse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right after I gave birth to her, they took her from me,” Galala said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galala said that experience sent her spiraling downward. A dependency court in Monterey Park, east of downtown Los Angeles, gave Galala’s sister custody of Nevaeh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went through a bad depression. My postpartum was horrible,” she said. “You know, it made me drown myself in drugs even worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she was ordered to appear before Price, Galala begged the judge for a chance to prove herself as a mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After consulting with social workers and lawyers, Price allowed Galala to stay with Eliza – on the condition that they move in with a relative and that she undergoes rehab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001983\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-120-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001983\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-120-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two young children play in a white inflatable house.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-120-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-120-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-120-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-120-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-120-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-120-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nevaeh and Eliza play in the jumpy house with their one-year-old cousin Kassy at a family event in Carson. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“At first, I was only allowed to be with Eliza at my mom’s, but I was not allowed to go anywhere with Eliza until I had proof that I was able to stay in program for at least 30 days,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she did, she celebrated by taking her daughter to the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And even though the baby was still a baby, it was just the principle,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galala said the court team celebrated every milestone, like when her husband Eric got clean and took parenting classes. When the couple won back their parental rights eight months later, Galala thanked Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told her she gave me a chance to bond with my baby that let me know the importance of my part to her as a mom. And that’s what made the difference in my drive to do good, continue being sober,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-129-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001986\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-129-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holds a young child with other adults in the background.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-129-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-129-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-129-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-129-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-129-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-129-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galala holds her daughter Eliza as she and her sisters buy from a local clothing stand in Carson. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Galala said her entire family came to the last court hearing, and Price and the lawyers gave her a framed picture with the word “HOPE.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The word stands for the court’s name: Helping Our Parents Excel. The court team also signed their names and included their phone numbers on the back of the frame, Galala said, to let her know she can call whenever she needs them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She thanked them for treating her fairly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have this saying that I tell my sister all the time: ‘I’m never above you, never below you, always beside you.’ And I was telling them, ‘this is how I feel about you guys,’” Galala said. “‘You guys weren’t better than us, and we weren’t below you guys. We were just side by side trying to accomplish a goal together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, her recovery from addiction has led Galala to heal her relationship with her sister, which allowed her to be more involved in Nevaeh’s life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001985\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-128-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001985\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-128-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a white shirt holds the hand of a young child in a bounce house as another young child watches above them.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-128-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-128-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-128-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-128-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-128-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-128-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galala’s sister, Apo, plays with Nevaeh and her daughter, Kassy, in the bounce house at a family event in Carson. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_12001659,news_12001846,news_12000933","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court is compiling data to measure the impact of this work, but Price said so far she’s seeing a difference. The court team has reunified families more quickly, reflecting \u003ca href=\"https://www.zerotothree.org/resource/resource/safe-babies-approach-evidence-and-impact\">a similar outcome seen by Zero to Three\u003c/a> at more than 140 courtrooms in 30 states that are taking a similar approach\u003ca href=\"https://www.zerotothree.org/resource/resource/safe-babies-approach-evidence-and-impact\">.\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0190740923005236?via%3Dihub\">A study found \u003c/a>children whose cases went before a Safe Babies courtroom had a higher rate of reunifying with their parents than a comparison group and were more likely to exit foster care to a permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the attorneys are telling me is that the parents leave the courtroom, and even if they don’t get a favorable ruling, they understood what happened,” Price said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When parents feel like they’re being heard and are treated respectfully, they’re more willing to continue cooperating in their child’s best interest, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Editor’s Note\u003c/strong>:\u003cem> An earlier version of this article incorrectly named Ben Falcioni’s organization. He is an attorney with Los Angeles Dependency Lawyers, not Children’s Law Center.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/12004917/she-almost-lost-custody-of-her-baby-a-unique-la-county-court-gave-her-a-second-chance","authors":["11829"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_2043","news_17825","news_32102","news_18143","news_27626","news_28373","news_18176"],"featImg":"news_12001988","label":"news_72"},"news_12003994":{"type":"posts","id":"news_12003994","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"12003994","score":null,"sort":[1726225232000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"at-a-san-francisco-shelter-for-unhoused-families-cooking-helps-heal-trauma","title":"At a San Francisco Shelter for Unhoused Families, Cooking Helps Heal Trauma","publishDate":1726225232,"format":"standard","headTitle":"At a San Francisco Shelter for Unhoused Families, Cooking Helps Heal Trauma | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/school/buena-vista-horace-mann-k-8-community-school\">Buena Vista Horace Mann\u003c/a> is a Spanish immersion school for students from kindergarten to 8th grade in San Francisco’s bustling Mission District. But by night, it transforms into something completely unique in the city: a homeless shelter for families with children enrolled in the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shelter provides a hot meal, a shower and a place to sleep in the gym or auditorium. It was formed six years ago by some of the parents of the school who, during a particularly rainy winter, asked if they could sleep in the hallway or an empty classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were staying in cars. They were staying in laundromats. They were riding the bus or BART back and forth every night just to pass the time in a place that felt relatively safe,” Principal Claudia DeLarios Moran said. “And here we had a building that wasn’t in use out of school time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school partnered with the city’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing to care for these families. The city pays for their housing, and the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.missionaction.org/our-work/housing-shelter/\">Mission Action runs the shelter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990405\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990405\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"Beds, blankets and personal belongings in a gym.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelter beds are set up in a gym at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The number of families experiencing homelessness or on the verge of homelessness has grown in San Francisco since then, and in recent months, the shelter has had to turn away families at the door when it fills up. Advocates and educators like Moran worry this is traumatizing for kids in desperate need of stability. Studies show housing insecurity early in life affects\u003ca href=\"https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/154/2/e2023064551/197596/Trajectories-of-Housing-Insecurity-From-Infancy-to?searchresult=1\"> children’s health down the line\u003c/a> and their\u003ca href=\"https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/product-files/Students_Experiencing_Homelessness_BRIEF.pdf\"> chances of finishing high school\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That level of insecurity in their home lives makes it really difficult for them to concentrate on whatever amazing instruction the teachers have in store for them once they get here every day,” Moran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As principal of a community school, Moran said her job is to make sure that students’ basic needs are met so they can learn better. That means partnering with local food, health care and housing organizations and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/59903/when-students-basic-needs-are-met-by-community-schools-learning-can-flourish\">turning the campus into a hub for easy access to services\u003c/a> its immigrant and low-income student population needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giving kids a safe place to sleep and a predictable routine can help lessen their anxiety. The shelter also focuses on the parents’ mental health by connecting them to social services and job training programs to help them get back on their feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To boost their morale, parents at the shelter are able to cook a meal together twice a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooking gives the parents agency and helps lift their self-esteem, said the shelter’s manager, Jacqui Portillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They feel relaxed, they feel connected, they’re accomplished, they did something,” Portillo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990404\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing headphones and holding audio equipment speaks with a woman wearing a blue vest and jeans in a gym.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacqui Portillo, community services director for Mission Action (right), speaks with KQED reporter Daisy Nguyen at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The parent has to be okay in order to support their kids,” she said. “And this little moment is helping them to really be more engaged with the kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent visit, several shelter residents volunteered to make red pozole – a spicy and hearty Mexican soup. Reporters Daisy Nguyen and Carlos Cabrera-Lomeli spoke with two moms at the shelter, who explained what cooking does for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Maria Figueroa\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Figueroa migrated from Tijuana, Mexico, in July 2023 with her 18-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son. She said it was too dangerous to raise her children in Mexico and is seeking political asylum in the U.S. When she arrived in San Francisco, she enrolled her kids in school and went back to school herself to train to be an in-home caregiver for sick and elderly people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figueroa said her kids often ask when they will get to taste her cooking again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I tell them, ‘God willing, when we have our own little place’ because, to be honest, we just can’t cook like that here [all the time] … only when an opportunity like this comes up,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990411\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a black hooded sweatshirt pours soup into a large pot in a kitchen.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelter resident Maria Figeroa helps make pozole in a teacher’s lounge at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She decided to make her signature dish – pozole – because it reminds her of home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we met, Figueroa had been staying at the shelter for nine months and said she saw the place as home and the shelter residents, her neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990408\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990408\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A hand touches chiles in a pan on a stovetop.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelter resident Maria Figeroa helps make pozole in the kitchen of a teacher’s lounge at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Regardless of how you see the situation, we’re all here for the same thing. We all need a home, we need a place to sleep, a place to eat while we figure out our situation and here, we all see each other and what we’re going through,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Analy Padilla\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Analy Padilla is from Honduras and has been living in this country for 21 years. She also came to this shelter nine months ago after her husband lost his job, and they couldn’t afford the rising cost of rent in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she, her husband and their two sons spent several nights sleeping in their car. They called everywhere for an open shelter space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And when they told me there was a spot for my family to stay here, I cried,” Padilla said. “I was so happy. I was finally going to have a home to be with my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-40-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990407\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-40-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a pink t-shirt cuts food on a cutting board in a kitchen.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-40-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-40-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-40-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-40-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-40-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelter resident Analy Padilla helps prepare pozole in a teacher’s lounge at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Padilla said it’s not easy sharing the bathroom, eating and sleeping spaces with strangers or packing up her stuff each morning. The experience hit her 15-year-old son Kevin hard, she said. At school, his grades dropped, he skipped classes, and he became withdrawn. [aside postID=\"news_11996078,news_12003407\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla said she urged him to see the bright side of their situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told him: ‘This is only temporary. We will soon get out of here. Then you will have your own space and your life will go back to normal. But give thanks to God that we have a mattress, a blanket and that you’re not outside in the cold. Many people have to spend their nights outside.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla said as the last school year progressed, he became more comfortable at the shelter and played with other kids there. She said he also joined a support group at his high school to talk through his experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990403\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A pink suitcase, shoes and a unicorn toy lie next to and on a blue bed.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child’s belongings sit next to a shelter bed set up in an auditorium at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He ended up liking it because, on the last day of the group, he told me, ‘Mom, the group is going to end, and we need to bring something to share.’ And I saw him so excited,” Padilla said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she also tries to make the best of the situation, and getting to cook together helps her feel like she’s part of a big family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that every two weeks, the cooks rotate duties: some decide what to make while others help with the prepping and cleaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We make a good team,” she said. “If someone doesn’t know how to do something, someone else will know how to do it. But we all add our own seasoning there in the kitchen.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Buena Vista Horace Mann, a Spanish immersion school in San Francisco’s Mission District, turns into a homeless shelter at night for families with children enrolled in the school district.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1726607377,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":1337},"headData":{"title":"At a San Francisco Shelter for Unhoused Families, Cooking Helps Heal Trauma | KQED","description":"Buena Vista Horace Mann, a Spanish immersion school in San Francisco’s Mission District, turns into a homeless shelter at night for families with children enrolled in the school district.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"At a San Francisco Shelter for Unhoused Families, Cooking Helps Heal Trauma","datePublished":"2024-09-13T04:00:32-07:00","dateModified":"2024-09-17T14:09:37-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"source":"The California Report Magazine","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/californiareportmagazine","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/ec6c3932-b3a3-4636-9e22-b1e8013f2601/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-12003994","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/12003994/at-a-san-francisco-shelter-for-unhoused-families-cooking-helps-heal-trauma","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/school/buena-vista-horace-mann-k-8-community-school\">Buena Vista Horace Mann\u003c/a> is a Spanish immersion school for students from kindergarten to 8th grade in San Francisco’s bustling Mission District. But by night, it transforms into something completely unique in the city: a homeless shelter for families with children enrolled in the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shelter provides a hot meal, a shower and a place to sleep in the gym or auditorium. It was formed six years ago by some of the parents of the school who, during a particularly rainy winter, asked if they could sleep in the hallway or an empty classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were staying in cars. They were staying in laundromats. They were riding the bus or BART back and forth every night just to pass the time in a place that felt relatively safe,” Principal Claudia DeLarios Moran said. “And here we had a building that wasn’t in use out of school time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school partnered with the city’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing to care for these families. The city pays for their housing, and the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.missionaction.org/our-work/housing-shelter/\">Mission Action runs the shelter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990405\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990405\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"Beds, blankets and personal belongings in a gym.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelter beds are set up in a gym at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The number of families experiencing homelessness or on the verge of homelessness has grown in San Francisco since then, and in recent months, the shelter has had to turn away families at the door when it fills up. Advocates and educators like Moran worry this is traumatizing for kids in desperate need of stability. Studies show housing insecurity early in life affects\u003ca href=\"https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/154/2/e2023064551/197596/Trajectories-of-Housing-Insecurity-From-Infancy-to?searchresult=1\"> children’s health down the line\u003c/a> and their\u003ca href=\"https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/product-files/Students_Experiencing_Homelessness_BRIEF.pdf\"> chances of finishing high school\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That level of insecurity in their home lives makes it really difficult for them to concentrate on whatever amazing instruction the teachers have in store for them once they get here every day,” Moran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As principal of a community school, Moran said her job is to make sure that students’ basic needs are met so they can learn better. That means partnering with local food, health care and housing organizations and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/59903/when-students-basic-needs-are-met-by-community-schools-learning-can-flourish\">turning the campus into a hub for easy access to services\u003c/a> its immigrant and low-income student population needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giving kids a safe place to sleep and a predictable routine can help lessen their anxiety. The shelter also focuses on the parents’ mental health by connecting them to social services and job training programs to help them get back on their feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To boost their morale, parents at the shelter are able to cook a meal together twice a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooking gives the parents agency and helps lift their self-esteem, said the shelter’s manager, Jacqui Portillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They feel relaxed, they feel connected, they’re accomplished, they did something,” Portillo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990404\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing headphones and holding audio equipment speaks with a woman wearing a blue vest and jeans in a gym.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacqui Portillo, community services director for Mission Action (right), speaks with KQED reporter Daisy Nguyen at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The parent has to be okay in order to support their kids,” she said. “And this little moment is helping them to really be more engaged with the kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent visit, several shelter residents volunteered to make red pozole – a spicy and hearty Mexican soup. Reporters Daisy Nguyen and Carlos Cabrera-Lomeli spoke with two moms at the shelter, who explained what cooking does for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Maria Figueroa\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Figueroa migrated from Tijuana, Mexico, in July 2023 with her 18-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son. She said it was too dangerous to raise her children in Mexico and is seeking political asylum in the U.S. When she arrived in San Francisco, she enrolled her kids in school and went back to school herself to train to be an in-home caregiver for sick and elderly people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figueroa said her kids often ask when they will get to taste her cooking again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I tell them, ‘God willing, when we have our own little place’ because, to be honest, we just can’t cook like that here [all the time] … only when an opportunity like this comes up,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990411\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a black hooded sweatshirt pours soup into a large pot in a kitchen.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelter resident Maria Figeroa helps make pozole in a teacher’s lounge at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She decided to make her signature dish – pozole – because it reminds her of home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we met, Figueroa had been staying at the shelter for nine months and said she saw the place as home and the shelter residents, her neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990408\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990408\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A hand touches chiles in a pan on a stovetop.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelter resident Maria Figeroa helps make pozole in the kitchen of a teacher’s lounge at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Regardless of how you see the situation, we’re all here for the same thing. We all need a home, we need a place to sleep, a place to eat while we figure out our situation and here, we all see each other and what we’re going through,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Analy Padilla\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Analy Padilla is from Honduras and has been living in this country for 21 years. She also came to this shelter nine months ago after her husband lost his job, and they couldn’t afford the rising cost of rent in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she, her husband and their two sons spent several nights sleeping in their car. They called everywhere for an open shelter space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And when they told me there was a spot for my family to stay here, I cried,” Padilla said. “I was so happy. I was finally going to have a home to be with my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-40-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990407\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-40-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a pink t-shirt cuts food on a cutting board in a kitchen.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-40-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-40-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-40-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-40-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-40-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelter resident Analy Padilla helps prepare pozole in a teacher’s lounge at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Padilla said it’s not easy sharing the bathroom, eating and sleeping spaces with strangers or packing up her stuff each morning. The experience hit her 15-year-old son Kevin hard, she said. At school, his grades dropped, he skipped classes, and he became withdrawn. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11996078,news_12003407","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla said she urged him to see the bright side of their situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told him: ‘This is only temporary. We will soon get out of here. Then you will have your own space and your life will go back to normal. But give thanks to God that we have a mattress, a blanket and that you’re not outside in the cold. Many people have to spend their nights outside.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla said as the last school year progressed, he became more comfortable at the shelter and played with other kids there. She said he also joined a support group at his high school to talk through his experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990403\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A pink suitcase, shoes and a unicorn toy lie next to and on a blue bed.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child’s belongings sit next to a shelter bed set up in an auditorium at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He ended up liking it because, on the last day of the group, he told me, ‘Mom, the group is going to end, and we need to bring something to share.’ And I saw him so excited,” Padilla said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she also tries to make the best of the situation, and getting to cook together helps her feel like she’s part of a big family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that every two weeks, the cooks rotate duties: some decide what to make while others help with the prepping and cleaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We make a good team,” she said. “If someone doesn’t know how to do something, someone else will know how to do it. But we all add our own seasoning there in the kitchen.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/12003994/at-a-san-francisco-shelter-for-unhoused-families-cooking-helps-heal-trauma","authors":["11829","11708"],"programs":["news_72","news_26731"],"categories":["news_18540","news_24114","news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_32102","news_27626","news_4020","news_1775","news_28373","news_38","news_2998","news_3457"],"featImg":"news_11990406","label":"source_news_12003994"},"news_12004431":{"type":"posts","id":"news_12004431","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"12004431","score":null,"sort":[1726138854000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-parents-struggle-with-high-child-care-costs-ahead-of-presidential-election","title":"California Parents Struggle With High Child Care Costs Ahead of Presidential Election","publishDate":1726138854,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California Parents Struggle With High Child Care Costs Ahead of Presidential Election | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The rising cost of having babies and caring for them has become a central issue in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/presidential-election\">presidential election\u003c/a>, and it’s hitting home with California parents as they contemplate their vote in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a new report from First 5 California, 48% of parents in the state find it difficult or very difficult to find \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/child-care\">child care\u003c/a> they can afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half of the respondents also said child care issues have a negative impact on their job or career, according to the survey of more than a thousand parents and business owners. About 70% said they pieced together childcare by altering their work hours or relying on family, friends or neighbors, leaving them feeling stressed or guilty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have that stress and that guilt, how productive are you when you do show up [to work]?” said Jackie Thu-Huong Wong, executive director of the child advocacy organization, which is launching \u003ca href=\"https://www.raisecastrong.com/\">a campaign to raise awareness about the child care crisis\u003c/a> and its impact on the state’s economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump offer starkly different ideas on lowering the financial burden of caring for young children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004353\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004353\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240911-CHILDCARE-REAX-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240911-CHILDCARE-REAX-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240911-CHILDCARE-REAX-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240911-CHILDCARE-REAX-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240911-CHILDCARE-REAX-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240911-CHILDCARE-REAX-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240911-CHILDCARE-REAX-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People walk around Lake Merritt in Oakland on Sept. 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During Tuesday’s \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542\">presidential debate\u003c/a>, Harris highlighted her proposal to give families with newborns a $6,000 child tax credit and gave a shout-out to “working women who can barely afford child care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the money would help families afford a crib, car seat, clothes and other essential items “to help you in that most critical stage of your child’s development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That kind of money could go a long way for Oakland resident Carolina Munoz, who became a first-time mom eight months ago. She said she’s putting off going back to work as a hairstylist because “it’s cheaper” for her to stay at home than to pay someone else to watch her daughter, Soleil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things add up, right? Daycare or even having somebody watch her a couple days a week that is extremely expensive,” Munoz said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11992142 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image-1020x684.png']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $6,000 tax credit would help offset the cost of diapers, food and age-appropriate toys and activities that support her child’s development, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munoz said Harris’ proposals to lower the cost of living and healthcare for families resonate with her as she grapples with the cost of raising a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Kamala really cares about what we all go through as a community, as a society, which is a safe environment for our children,” including the ability for parents to provide for their children so they have a secure future, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked last week how he would bring down the high cost of child care, Trump gave a rambling answer that \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-economy-harris-corporate-taxes-15ba5ecfdf5e907bd9b2c349b07222b8\">suggested that increasing tariffs on foreign imports\u003c/a> could raise enough money to help fix the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">His running mate, JD Vance, has mentioned \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-jd-vance-on-face-the-nation-aug-11-2024/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raising the child tax credit and giving grandparents or stay-at-home parents\u003c/a> a “credit” or a “check” for taking care of kids so that families have more options for childcare arrangements that work for them.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you open up kinship and other options for families, you will relieve some pressure on the daycare system in this country,” \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/JDVance/status/1831701121758589425\">he wrote on social media site X l\u003c/a>ast week. He also criticized “a totally broken” educational pathway that’s keeping people from getting jobs in child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Harris and Trump offer starkly different approaches to the high cost of care, an issue that impacts a high percentage of California parents.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1728427129,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":628},"headData":{"title":"California Parents Struggle With High Child Care Costs Ahead of Presidential Election | KQED","description":"Harris and Trump offer starkly different approaches to the high cost of care, an issue that impacts a high percentage of California parents.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Parents Struggle With High Child Care Costs Ahead of Presidential Election","datePublished":"2024-09-12T04:00:54-07:00","dateModified":"2024-10-08T15:38:49-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/ca2f3c97-2f73-45ab-94dd-b1e9012c8906/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-12004431","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/12004431/california-parents-struggle-with-high-child-care-costs-ahead-of-presidential-election","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The rising cost of having babies and caring for them has become a central issue in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/presidential-election\">presidential election\u003c/a>, and it’s hitting home with California parents as they contemplate their vote in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a new report from First 5 California, 48% of parents in the state find it difficult or very difficult to find \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/child-care\">child care\u003c/a> they can afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half of the respondents also said child care issues have a negative impact on their job or career, according to the survey of more than a thousand parents and business owners. About 70% said they pieced together childcare by altering their work hours or relying on family, friends or neighbors, leaving them feeling stressed or guilty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have that stress and that guilt, how productive are you when you do show up [to work]?” said Jackie Thu-Huong Wong, executive director of the child advocacy organization, which is launching \u003ca href=\"https://www.raisecastrong.com/\">a campaign to raise awareness about the child care crisis\u003c/a> and its impact on the state’s economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump offer starkly different ideas on lowering the financial burden of caring for young children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004353\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004353\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240911-CHILDCARE-REAX-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240911-CHILDCARE-REAX-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240911-CHILDCARE-REAX-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240911-CHILDCARE-REAX-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240911-CHILDCARE-REAX-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240911-CHILDCARE-REAX-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240911-CHILDCARE-REAX-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People walk around Lake Merritt in Oakland on Sept. 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During Tuesday’s \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542\">presidential debate\u003c/a>, Harris highlighted her proposal to give families with newborns a $6,000 child tax credit and gave a shout-out to “working women who can barely afford child care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the money would help families afford a crib, car seat, clothes and other essential items “to help you in that most critical stage of your child’s development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That kind of money could go a long way for Oakland resident Carolina Munoz, who became a first-time mom eight months ago. She said she’s putting off going back to work as a hairstylist because “it’s cheaper” for her to stay at home than to pay someone else to watch her daughter, Soleil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things add up, right? Daycare or even having somebody watch her a couple days a week that is extremely expensive,” Munoz said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11992142","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image-1020x684.png","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $6,000 tax credit would help offset the cost of diapers, food and age-appropriate toys and activities that support her child’s development, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munoz said Harris’ proposals to lower the cost of living and healthcare for families resonate with her as she grapples with the cost of raising a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Kamala really cares about what we all go through as a community, as a society, which is a safe environment for our children,” including the ability for parents to provide for their children so they have a secure future, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked last week how he would bring down the high cost of child care, Trump gave a rambling answer that \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-economy-harris-corporate-taxes-15ba5ecfdf5e907bd9b2c349b07222b8\">suggested that increasing tariffs on foreign imports\u003c/a> could raise enough money to help fix the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">His running mate, JD Vance, has mentioned \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-jd-vance-on-face-the-nation-aug-11-2024/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raising the child tax credit and giving grandparents or stay-at-home parents\u003c/a> a “credit” or a “check” for taking care of kids so that families have more options for childcare arrangements that work for them.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you open up kinship and other options for families, you will relieve some pressure on the daycare system in this country,” \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/JDVance/status/1831701121758589425\">he wrote on social media site X l\u003c/a>ast week. He also criticized “a totally broken” educational pathway that’s keeping people from getting jobs in child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/12004431/california-parents-struggle-with-high-child-care-costs-ahead-of-presidential-election","authors":["11829"],"categories":["news_18540","news_457","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_32102","news_27626","news_34377","news_18543","news_34054","news_17968"],"featImg":"news_12004425","label":"news"},"news_12000147":{"type":"posts","id":"news_12000147","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"12000147","score":null,"sort":[1723666116000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"bay-area-study-finds-early-childhood-trauma-therapy-can-prevent-serious-disease","title":"Bay Area Study Finds Early Childhood Trauma Therapy Can Prevent Serious Disease","publishDate":1723666116,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Study Finds Early Childhood Trauma Therapy Can Prevent Serious Disease | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A form of psychotherapy to address early childhood trauma has the potential to prevent serious disease later in life by slowing down the rapid aging of the body’s cells, according to \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09567976241260247\">a study published Wednesday\u003c/a> in the journal \u003cem>Psychological Science\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study, which focuses on a group of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bay-area\">Bay Area\u003c/a> youngsters who received child-parent psychotherapy, shows that the treatment not only has psychological benefits but is making a difference on a biological level, according to a team of researchers at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that stress is associated with all sorts of health and disease outcomes later in life, and we’ve learned that stress gets under the skin to affect our physiology as early as early childhood,” said Nicki Bush, a psychiatry and pediatrics professor at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study’s findings are “just one more bit of strong evidence that shows intervening on trauma early in life can have a really positive impact on children and their families,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child-parent psychotherapy, also known as CPP, helps young children overcome trauma related to abuse, violence or grief by helping parents respond to their children’s distress in appropriate ways. During sessions, therapists incorporate toys to help children process their traumatic experiences and help parents understand how their children’s behavior is linked to their own exposure to trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is to heal the relationship between adult and child and help prevent what psychiatrists call the intergenerational transmission of trauma during a sensitive period of the child’s development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The brain grows fastest in the first five years of life, and so it’s most malleable [then],” said Alicia Lieberman, who pioneered this form of therapy at UCSF three decades ago. “That’s why it’s so important to make sure that the neural connections that happen [during this time] are associated with protection, with safety, with trust, with growth, with pleasure, with exploration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000191\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000191\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/019_KQED_BerkeleyYMCAEricaDavis_11162022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/019_KQED_BerkeleyYMCAEricaDavis_11162022_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/019_KQED_BerkeleyYMCAEricaDavis_11162022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/019_KQED_BerkeleyYMCAEricaDavis_11162022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/019_KQED_BerkeleyYMCAEricaDavis_11162022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/019_KQED_BerkeleyYMCAEricaDavis_11162022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/019_KQED_BerkeleyYMCAEricaDavis_11162022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children play during recess in Berkeley on Nov. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Previous studies have shown that exposure to a greater number of adverse childhood experiences, including physical, emotional and sexual abuse, neglect and domestic violence, may \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9924940/\">accelerate aging in older adults\u003c/a> and that \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5566406/\">exposure to violence speeds up children’s epigenetic clock\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concept of an epigenetic clock was developed about a decade ago by Steve Horvath, a principal investigator at the Bay Area biotech company Altos Labs, to estimate a person’s biological age by looking at a chemical tag in their DNA called methyl groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because child-parent psychotherapy\u003ca href=\"https://childparentpsychotherapy.com/about/research/\"> has been shown\u003c/a> to lower traumatic stress symptoms and behavior problems in children, researchers wanted to see whether the treatment has any effect on the rate at which their bodies are aging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They swabbed the cheeks of a group of children between 2 and 6 years old who received up to 20 weekly child-parent psychotherapy sessions and compared the DNA samples from their saliva to those of another group of children who experienced trauma but didn’t receive the treatment. The study was conducted in San Francisco and Oakland between 2013 and 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the children had epigenetic clocks that ran on average at the same speed when the study began. But after two years, the kids who didn’t receive the therapy had a faster-ticking epigenetic clock than those who received therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers say the level of trauma was higher for the children who received the therapy than the kids in the comparison group, which makes the findings even more noteworthy. The majority of participants from both groups were mixed-race or Latin American and from low-income households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes sense that when children are exposed to stress [they’re] working really hard to cope with these environments, but that adaptation can come at a cost because their bodies are working harder,” said the study’s co-author, Allie Sullivan. “That’s when we can potentially see associations with future health problems like chronic disease.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID=news_11992142 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image-1020x684.png']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bush said she hopes evidence that the therapy can slow cellular aging takes away the stigma oftentimes associated with seeking mental and behavioral health support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study is one of several underway that shows the impact of toxic stress or traumatic stress on the developing body and the impact of “really good interventions” that can reverse or slow down the biological toll of these kinds of stress, said Dr. Rahil Briggs, a child psychologist and national director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthysteps.org/\">Healthy Steps\u003c/a>, a program that provides early childhood development support to low-income families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2759759#google_vignette\">cited a study\u003c/a> that found babies whose mothers experienced psychological distress had lower electrical activity in the brain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have long known that there’s no health without mental health,” Briggs, who was not involved in the UCSF research, said. “But now we see the link between stress and anxiety and something like severe maternal depression and the actual, physical well-being of the infant or toddler.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She hopes the findings make a convincing case for funding dyadic care as part of a child’s pediatric checkups. Dyadic care is based on the idea that a parent’s or caregiver’s well-being is important for a child’s healthy development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, California \u003ca href=\"https://mcweb.apps.prd.cammis.medi-cal.ca.gov/news/31905\">began covering dyadic services for Medi-Cal patients\u003c/a>. That means doctors can get reimbursed for screening the child and parent for mental and behavioral health problems and referring them to appropriate follow-up care. Children up to 20 years old and their parents qualify for the benefit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child-parent psychotherapy is also covered under the state’s $4.7 billion Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative. A diagnosis is required before treatment can begin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you can show that trauma affects biology in a manner we can’t control consciously and that therapy can reverse that biological harm, it gets people to think, ‘Gosh, I may not be concerned about mental health, but I’m compelled to invest in and support policies that would pay for this type of intervention because it’s going to prevent asthma, it’s going to prevent obesity or heart disease down the line,’” Bush said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Child-parent psychotherapy helps young children overcome trauma related to abuse, violence or grief by helping parents respond to their children’s distress in appropriate ways.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1726598080,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":1088},"headData":{"title":"Bay Area Study Finds Early Childhood Trauma Therapy Can Prevent Serious Disease | KQED","description":"Child-parent psychotherapy helps young children overcome trauma related to abuse, violence or grief by helping parents respond to their children’s distress in appropriate ways.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Bay Area Study Finds Early Childhood Trauma Therapy Can Prevent Serious Disease","datePublished":"2024-08-14T13:08:36-07:00","dateModified":"2024-09-17T11:34:40-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/41435a28-0f2a-409f-a2e3-b1d2010a5c1d/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-12000147","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/12000147/bay-area-study-finds-early-childhood-trauma-therapy-can-prevent-serious-disease","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A form of psychotherapy to address early childhood trauma has the potential to prevent serious disease later in life by slowing down the rapid aging of the body’s cells, according to \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09567976241260247\">a study published Wednesday\u003c/a> in the journal \u003cem>Psychological Science\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study, which focuses on a group of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bay-area\">Bay Area\u003c/a> youngsters who received child-parent psychotherapy, shows that the treatment not only has psychological benefits but is making a difference on a biological level, according to a team of researchers at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that stress is associated with all sorts of health and disease outcomes later in life, and we’ve learned that stress gets under the skin to affect our physiology as early as early childhood,” said Nicki Bush, a psychiatry and pediatrics professor at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study’s findings are “just one more bit of strong evidence that shows intervening on trauma early in life can have a really positive impact on children and their families,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child-parent psychotherapy, also known as CPP, helps young children overcome trauma related to abuse, violence or grief by helping parents respond to their children’s distress in appropriate ways. During sessions, therapists incorporate toys to help children process their traumatic experiences and help parents understand how their children’s behavior is linked to their own exposure to trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is to heal the relationship between adult and child and help prevent what psychiatrists call the intergenerational transmission of trauma during a sensitive period of the child’s development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The brain grows fastest in the first five years of life, and so it’s most malleable [then],” said Alicia Lieberman, who pioneered this form of therapy at UCSF three decades ago. “That’s why it’s so important to make sure that the neural connections that happen [during this time] are associated with protection, with safety, with trust, with growth, with pleasure, with exploration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000191\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000191\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/019_KQED_BerkeleyYMCAEricaDavis_11162022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/019_KQED_BerkeleyYMCAEricaDavis_11162022_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/019_KQED_BerkeleyYMCAEricaDavis_11162022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/019_KQED_BerkeleyYMCAEricaDavis_11162022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/019_KQED_BerkeleyYMCAEricaDavis_11162022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/019_KQED_BerkeleyYMCAEricaDavis_11162022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/019_KQED_BerkeleyYMCAEricaDavis_11162022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children play during recess in Berkeley on Nov. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Previous studies have shown that exposure to a greater number of adverse childhood experiences, including physical, emotional and sexual abuse, neglect and domestic violence, may \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9924940/\">accelerate aging in older adults\u003c/a> and that \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5566406/\">exposure to violence speeds up children’s epigenetic clock\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concept of an epigenetic clock was developed about a decade ago by Steve Horvath, a principal investigator at the Bay Area biotech company Altos Labs, to estimate a person’s biological age by looking at a chemical tag in their DNA called methyl groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because child-parent psychotherapy\u003ca href=\"https://childparentpsychotherapy.com/about/research/\"> has been shown\u003c/a> to lower traumatic stress symptoms and behavior problems in children, researchers wanted to see whether the treatment has any effect on the rate at which their bodies are aging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They swabbed the cheeks of a group of children between 2 and 6 years old who received up to 20 weekly child-parent psychotherapy sessions and compared the DNA samples from their saliva to those of another group of children who experienced trauma but didn’t receive the treatment. The study was conducted in San Francisco and Oakland between 2013 and 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the children had epigenetic clocks that ran on average at the same speed when the study began. But after two years, the kids who didn’t receive the therapy had a faster-ticking epigenetic clock than those who received therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers say the level of trauma was higher for the children who received the therapy than the kids in the comparison group, which makes the findings even more noteworthy. The majority of participants from both groups were mixed-race or Latin American and from low-income households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes sense that when children are exposed to stress [they’re] working really hard to cope with these environments, but that adaptation can come at a cost because their bodies are working harder,” said the study’s co-author, Allie Sullivan. “That’s when we can potentially see associations with future health problems like chronic disease.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11992142","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image-1020x684.png","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bush said she hopes evidence that the therapy can slow cellular aging takes away the stigma oftentimes associated with seeking mental and behavioral health support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study is one of several underway that shows the impact of toxic stress or traumatic stress on the developing body and the impact of “really good interventions” that can reverse or slow down the biological toll of these kinds of stress, said Dr. Rahil Briggs, a child psychologist and national director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthysteps.org/\">Healthy Steps\u003c/a>, a program that provides early childhood development support to low-income families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2759759#google_vignette\">cited a study\u003c/a> that found babies whose mothers experienced psychological distress had lower electrical activity in the brain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have long known that there’s no health without mental health,” Briggs, who was not involved in the UCSF research, said. “But now we see the link between stress and anxiety and something like severe maternal depression and the actual, physical well-being of the infant or toddler.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She hopes the findings make a convincing case for funding dyadic care as part of a child’s pediatric checkups. Dyadic care is based on the idea that a parent’s or caregiver’s well-being is important for a child’s healthy development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, California \u003ca href=\"https://mcweb.apps.prd.cammis.medi-cal.ca.gov/news/31905\">began covering dyadic services for Medi-Cal patients\u003c/a>. That means doctors can get reimbursed for screening the child and parent for mental and behavioral health problems and referring them to appropriate follow-up care. Children up to 20 years old and their parents qualify for the benefit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child-parent psychotherapy is also covered under the state’s $4.7 billion Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative. A diagnosis is required before treatment can begin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you can show that trauma affects biology in a manner we can’t control consciously and that therapy can reverse that biological harm, it gets people to think, ‘Gosh, I may not be concerned about mental health, but I’m compelled to invest in and support policies that would pay for this type of intervention because it’s going to prevent asthma, it’s going to prevent obesity or heart disease down the line,’” Bush said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/12000147/bay-area-study-finds-early-childhood-trauma-therapy-can-prevent-serious-disease","authors":["11829"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_18538","news_32102","news_32928","news_20013","news_38","news_2138","news_922","news_676"],"featImg":"news_12000187","label":"news"},"news_11997115":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11997115","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11997115","score":null,"sort":[1721991631000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"uc-berkeley-report-finds-enrollment-in-californias-public-preschool-programs-hasnt-recovered-from-pandemic","title":"UC Berkeley Report Finds Enrollment in California's Public Preschool Programs Hasn't Recovered From Pandemic","publishDate":1721991631,"format":"standard","headTitle":"UC Berkeley Report Finds Enrollment in California’s Public Preschool Programs Hasn’t Recovered From Pandemic | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Since 2021, the federal and state governments have boosted spending on child care and early education by more than $5 billion to help California’s youngest kids recover from COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, many families have not responded with the same level of enthusiasm, according to \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XAP_2Jm3Uv4m0zbqy4Tk59b2yxM3k3Y9/view\">an analysis of state data (PDF)\u003c/a> published Wednesday by researchers at the UC Berkeley School of Education. While enrollment in transitional kindergarten \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr24/yr24rel30.asp\">has significantly grown\u003c/a> in the last three years as the state admits more 4-year-olds into the new grade, demand for other programs that serve this age group, such as Head Start and the California State Preschool Program, has been relatively flat, according to the new findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data show that overall enrollment in public preschool has not returned to pre-pandemic levels, according to Bruce Fuller, who led the analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just have made very little progress since 2019,” said Fuller, an education and public policy professor at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early childhood education in California has long been a patchwork of government-run preschools, private and nonprofit centers, and family child care sites that are run out of providers’ homes. The state typically pays for children from the lowest-income homes. An example is vouchers that give parents the option of putting their kids in a center or at home, under the care of a provider, family member or friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When lawmakers signed off on a $2.7 billion plan to make transitional kindergarten, or TK, available to all 4-year-olds by the 2025–26 school year, experts warned it would take away students and teachers from other early childhood education programs, including private preschools because it’s free and offers teachers better pay and benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state responded to that concern by expanding the California State Preschool Program and widening access to that program for 3- and 4-year-olds from lower-income households. The state focuses on this population because \u003ca href=\"https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/documents/opre/%232023-226%20Benefits%20from%20ECE%20Highlight%20508.pdf\">research shows (PDF)\u003c/a> that kids from lower-income households gain more academic and social skills and benefit more from two years of participating in a high-quality preschool program than kids from more affluent households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11997124\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.01%E2%80%AFAM-scaled-e1721844340937.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1339\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.01 AM-scaled-e1721844340937.jpg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.01 AM-scaled-e1721844340937-800x837.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.01 AM-scaled-e1721844340937-1020x1067.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.01 AM-scaled-e1721844340937-160x167.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fuller said these policies contradict each other and add more confusion to what he calls a “crazy quilt of programs that’s hard for parents to understand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fuller points to a 20% jump in vouchers between 2021 and 2023, indicating a growing preference for child care arrangements that offer parents more choice and flexibility but discourage them from signing up for preschool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child care advocates say the popularity of vouchers points to a greater need for child care that matches families’ individual needs, whether during irregular hours for those who work weekend or night shifts or in a setting that aligns with their cultural or linguistic preferences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just because you build (a preschool program), people will not come,” said Linda Asato, executive director of the nonprofit California Child Care Resource & Referral Network. “It may not make sense for families. When setting that goal of universal TK, it can’t be done in a vacuum because it may not be what everyone wants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a pandemic-era “hold harmless” policy, which guarantees a certain level of funding regardless of the number of children enrolled, may have had an unintended consequence for California State Preschool programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During COVID, those programs continued to get the same budget they had in 2019,” Fuller said. “Initially, that was sensible because you didn’t want to start laying off staff and closing down preschools, but it also doesn’t create an incentive to move towards [enrolling 3-year-olds] because why not have smaller classes, and maybe bump up your salary a little bit?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11997130\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.09%E2%80%AFAM-scaled-e1721844707499.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1591\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.09 AM-scaled-e1721844707499.jpg 1591w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.09 AM-scaled-e1721844707499-800x667.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.09 AM-scaled-e1721844707499-1020x850.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.09 AM-scaled-e1721844707499-160x133.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.09 AM-scaled-e1721844707499-1536x1280.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1591px) 100vw, 1591px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, $713 million in unspent California State Preschool Program funding was returned to the state coffers, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2024-25/pdf/Enacted/BudgetSummary/K-12Education.pdf\">summary of the 2024–25 state budget (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al Muratsuchi, who chairs the state Assembly’s education committee, acknowledges the expansion of TK is disrupting other programs and that more work needs to be done to inform parents about their options and ensure there are enough workers and facilities to provide a high-quality early childhood education for all kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in a transitional period,” said Muratsuchi, a Democrat from Torrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis also identified zip codes that are populated with young kids but don’t have few, if any, public preschool programs. They include parts of the Central Valley and Central Coast, plus fast-growing working-class suburbs like Antioch and Livermore in the Bay Area. Fuller said these communities lack the “civic infrastructure,” like community-based organizations or school districts, to bid for state funding for a preschool program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hopes the analysis will compel state officials to target funding on families that have almost no preschool options in their community and simplify the child care and early education system for parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muratsuchi thinks one possible solution is to further invest in community schools that provide a variety of social support services for students and their families on campus, and those services could include childcare and preschool programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to continue to build upon this community school model and take advantage of the existing public school infrastructure,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The new analysis state data into three public preschool programs comes despite a $5 billion boost in spending on early education in California.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1726598086,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":907},"headData":{"title":"UC Berkeley Report Finds Enrollment in California's Public Preschool Programs Hasn't Recovered From Pandemic | KQED","description":"The new analysis state data into three public preschool programs comes despite a $5 billion boost in spending on early education in California.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialDescription":"The new analysis state data into three public preschool programs comes despite a $5 billion boost in spending on early education in California.","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"UC Berkeley Report Finds Enrollment in California's Public Preschool Programs Hasn't Recovered From Pandemic","datePublished":"2024-07-26T04:00:31-07:00","dateModified":"2024-09-17T11:34:46-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/cfdfcf92-89cb-4ecf-b349-b1bc011dd09e/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-11997115","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11997115/uc-berkeley-report-finds-enrollment-in-californias-public-preschool-programs-hasnt-recovered-from-pandemic","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Since 2021, the federal and state governments have boosted spending on child care and early education by more than $5 billion to help California’s youngest kids recover from COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, many families have not responded with the same level of enthusiasm, according to \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XAP_2Jm3Uv4m0zbqy4Tk59b2yxM3k3Y9/view\">an analysis of state data (PDF)\u003c/a> published Wednesday by researchers at the UC Berkeley School of Education. While enrollment in transitional kindergarten \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr24/yr24rel30.asp\">has significantly grown\u003c/a> in the last three years as the state admits more 4-year-olds into the new grade, demand for other programs that serve this age group, such as Head Start and the California State Preschool Program, has been relatively flat, according to the new findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data show that overall enrollment in public preschool has not returned to pre-pandemic levels, according to Bruce Fuller, who led the analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just have made very little progress since 2019,” said Fuller, an education and public policy professor at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early childhood education in California has long been a patchwork of government-run preschools, private and nonprofit centers, and family child care sites that are run out of providers’ homes. The state typically pays for children from the lowest-income homes. An example is vouchers that give parents the option of putting their kids in a center or at home, under the care of a provider, family member or friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When lawmakers signed off on a $2.7 billion plan to make transitional kindergarten, or TK, available to all 4-year-olds by the 2025–26 school year, experts warned it would take away students and teachers from other early childhood education programs, including private preschools because it’s free and offers teachers better pay and benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state responded to that concern by expanding the California State Preschool Program and widening access to that program for 3- and 4-year-olds from lower-income households. The state focuses on this population because \u003ca href=\"https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/documents/opre/%232023-226%20Benefits%20from%20ECE%20Highlight%20508.pdf\">research shows (PDF)\u003c/a> that kids from lower-income households gain more academic and social skills and benefit more from two years of participating in a high-quality preschool program than kids from more affluent households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11997124\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.01%E2%80%AFAM-scaled-e1721844340937.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1339\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.01 AM-scaled-e1721844340937.jpg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.01 AM-scaled-e1721844340937-800x837.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.01 AM-scaled-e1721844340937-1020x1067.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.01 AM-scaled-e1721844340937-160x167.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fuller said these policies contradict each other and add more confusion to what he calls a “crazy quilt of programs that’s hard for parents to understand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fuller points to a 20% jump in vouchers between 2021 and 2023, indicating a growing preference for child care arrangements that offer parents more choice and flexibility but discourage them from signing up for preschool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child care advocates say the popularity of vouchers points to a greater need for child care that matches families’ individual needs, whether during irregular hours for those who work weekend or night shifts or in a setting that aligns with their cultural or linguistic preferences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just because you build (a preschool program), people will not come,” said Linda Asato, executive director of the nonprofit California Child Care Resource & Referral Network. “It may not make sense for families. When setting that goal of universal TK, it can’t be done in a vacuum because it may not be what everyone wants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a pandemic-era “hold harmless” policy, which guarantees a certain level of funding regardless of the number of children enrolled, may have had an unintended consequence for California State Preschool programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During COVID, those programs continued to get the same budget they had in 2019,” Fuller said. “Initially, that was sensible because you didn’t want to start laying off staff and closing down preschools, but it also doesn’t create an incentive to move towards [enrolling 3-year-olds] because why not have smaller classes, and maybe bump up your salary a little bit?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11997130\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.09%E2%80%AFAM-scaled-e1721844707499.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1591\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.09 AM-scaled-e1721844707499.jpg 1591w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.09 AM-scaled-e1721844707499-800x667.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.09 AM-scaled-e1721844707499-1020x850.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.09 AM-scaled-e1721844707499-160x133.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.09 AM-scaled-e1721844707499-1536x1280.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1591px) 100vw, 1591px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, $713 million in unspent California State Preschool Program funding was returned to the state coffers, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2024-25/pdf/Enacted/BudgetSummary/K-12Education.pdf\">summary of the 2024–25 state budget (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al Muratsuchi, who chairs the state Assembly’s education committee, acknowledges the expansion of TK is disrupting other programs and that more work needs to be done to inform parents about their options and ensure there are enough workers and facilities to provide a high-quality early childhood education for all kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in a transitional period,” said Muratsuchi, a Democrat from Torrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis also identified zip codes that are populated with young kids but don’t have few, if any, public preschool programs. They include parts of the Central Valley and Central Coast, plus fast-growing working-class suburbs like Antioch and Livermore in the Bay Area. Fuller said these communities lack the “civic infrastructure,” like community-based organizations or school districts, to bid for state funding for a preschool program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hopes the analysis will compel state officials to target funding on families that have almost no preschool options in their community and simplify the child care and early education system for parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muratsuchi thinks one possible solution is to further invest in community schools that provide a variety of social support services for students and their families on campus, and those services could include childcare and preschool programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to continue to build upon this community school model and take advantage of the existing public school infrastructure,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11997115/uc-berkeley-report-finds-enrollment-in-californias-public-preschool-programs-hasnt-recovered-from-pandemic","authors":["11829"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_30911","news_20754","news_32102"],"featImg":"news_11997144","label":"news"},"news_11992935":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11992935","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11992935","score":null,"sort":[1720103450000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"puppetry-is-far-more-than-childs-play-for-young-learners-in-oakland","title":"Puppetry Is Far More Than Child's Play for Young Learners in Oakland","publishDate":1720103450,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Puppetry Is Far More Than Child’s Play for Young Learners in Oakland | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Puppetry is more than just child’s play at Children’s Fairyland, Oakland’s iconic storybook theme park. Small children have been stimulated by the wonders of live performance at the \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://fairyland.org/events-and-performances/puppet-shows/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Storybook Puppet Theater\u003c/a> since 1956, but now they will also be exposed to arts education programming specially crafted for preschool learners. A new puppet education initiative, \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://fairyland.org/events-and-performances/puppet-shows/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Puppet Playdates\u003c/a>, takes hands-on learning to the next level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once upon a time comes alive for a new generation every Thursday after the 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. puppet shows, when children are cordially invited to a nearby meadow to make friends with marionettes after the curtain falls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent morning, Amber Rose Arthur, 5, wasted no time breathing life into the unicorn puppet, its sparkles glittering in the sun. Every so often, she gently nudged other children with the unicorn’s horn to bestow them with magic powers. In the interests of total disclosure: She gave this reporter some enchantment, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2033px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Amber-Rose-Arthurjpg-scaled-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11992939\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Amber-Rose-Arthurjpg-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl wearing a pink vest holds a puppet on her right hand.\" width=\"2033\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Amber-Rose-Arthurjpg-scaled-1.jpg 2033w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Amber-Rose-Arthurjpg-scaled-1-800x1007.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Amber-Rose-Arthurjpg-scaled-1-1020x1284.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Amber-Rose-Arthurjpg-scaled-1-160x201.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Amber-Rose-Arthurjpg-scaled-1-1220x1536.jpg 1220w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Amber-Rose-Arthurjpg-scaled-1-1626x2048.jpg 1626w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Amber-Rose-Arthurjpg-scaled-1-1920x2418.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2033px) 100vw, 2033px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amber Rose Arthur plays with a puppet. \u003ccite>(Andrew Reed/EdSource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They don’t get enough arts in school anymore, so events like this are great,” said her father, Gregory Arthur, watching as the little girl explored the craft of puppetry and social interactions in one fell swoop. “It stimulates the brain more than a lot of other things. It gets them to think and learn, and it makes them smile.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nestled on the shores of Lake Merritt, this bewitching arts education program invites children to learn the magic of puppetry while immersing themselves in classic fables, including James M. Barrie’s \u003cem>Peter Pan\u003c/em>, Frank L. Baum’s \u003cem>The Wizard of Oz\u003c/em> and Hans Christian Andersen’s \u003cem>The Snow Queen\u003c/em>. This program also lays the groundwork for a proposed puppet education program that will pay visits to early-learning classrooms in Oakland Unified School District (OUSD).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fairyland is designed to inspire a young child to have a great imagination,” said Joy Peacock, client and community relations director for the PNC Foundation, the philanthropic arm of PNC Bank, which is partnering on the puppet-based early-learning program. “It’s not all laid out there for you, like in TV. You have to rely on your own imagination. Puppetry is very interactive, it’s very tactile, it’s very creative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coming out of the pandemic, Fairyland held focus groups with local teachers to pinpoint what kinds of activities would be most beneficial for the preschool cohort, and the takeaway was that children today need more social-emotional learning as well as more exposure to the creative impulse. Enter puppets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that actually made me really sad is that the teachers were saying the children are losing their imagination,” said Maria Rodriguez, manager of the puppet theater. “They’re losing their ability to make-believe. For me, you know, I can’t imagine life without imagination, so I was just like, oh goodness. We need to help inspire the children to learn how to make-believe. We want to help them to light that spark.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/01ZRaXTZKcM?si=xVwohBbWND7N_X9T\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s basically Jacqui June Whitlock’s calling in life. A former transitional kindergarten teacher with a background in theater and an affinity for puppetry, this is her dream gig. She studied child development in college and the art of shadow puppetry in Bali. She has encountered more than one child who was too afraid to express themselves until she handed them a puppet. Suddenly, they found their voice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, this has been like a lifelong career. Incorporating social-emotional learning with puppetry, that’s my bread and butter,” said Whitlock, a puppet education specialist. “Something wonderful happens when you hand a child a puppet. Puppets are a great conduit for storytelling and learning without putting any pressure on the child.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whitlock is a master at teaching through play. Holding court with a cavalcade of puppets, from rabbits and dragons to cats, after a recent performance of “Peter Pan,” she relishes helping children spin yarns of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been dreaming of doing a program like this for years. It’s amazing that we finally have the funding to do it,” she said. “In America, we tend to think of puppets as simple toys for children, but really, there’s so much more to puppetry. Many other cultures think of them as more than that. They can be a very complex tool.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the play dates, she helps guide groups of pint-sized puppeteers as they learn and play. If a child has a puppet pretend to bite her, for example, she inquires whether the puppet is hungry, opening up a dialogue with the child. But she always wants the kiddo to lead the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They weave their own story,” said Whitlock, who crafts a lot of her own puppets by hand. “You’re not really telling them what the story is, they’re telling you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Empowering children to express themselves is particularly critical right now, experts say, because this generation missed out on so many formative experiences because of school closures and other pandemic disruptions. The arts can be an effortless way to boost special emotional learning, she says, through the kind of make-believe games that children are naturally drawn to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992940\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Childrens-Fairyland-scaled-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11992940\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Childrens-Fairyland-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"Children play with puppets outside.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Childrens-Fairyland-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Childrens-Fairyland-scaled-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Childrens-Fairyland-scaled-1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Childrens-Fairyland-scaled-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Childrens-Fairyland-scaled-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Childrens-Fairyland-scaled-1-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Childrens-Fairyland-scaled-1-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacqui June Whitlock, a puppet education specialist at Children’s Fairyland in Oakland, teaches through puppet play and imagination. \u003ccite>(Andrew Reed/EdSource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Teachers were saying that they were seeing a lack of imagination or a lack of pretend play happening in their classrooms, noticing that children weren’t interacting as much,” she said. “And puppets are an excellent tool for cultivating that pretend play, also just communicating with each other, it’s sort of like a conduit for your personality … It just makes it so easy for them to communicate with each other and break down that barrier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puppets can play a role in helping children communicate on a deeper level, experts say, by externalizing their emotions onto the inanimate object. The puppet becomes a proxy that helps kids process hard situations, grapple with fears and explore their feelings through metaphor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"mindshift_63891,news_11992142,news_11989955\" label=\"Related Stories\"]“One of my favorite things that I’ve observed is that puppet playtime creates a lot of interaction between the grownup and the kiddo,” said Whitlock. “It’s like time slows down for them. Also, I put in a bench recently, so now I’m also seeing a lot of elders, and I love the interactions between grandparents and their littles. It’s very nurturing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, puppetry can also fuel expressions of pure escapism, encouraging little children to create their own big adventures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Children and puppetry go hand in hand because kids have no trouble suspending their disbelief and endowing the simplest props with life,” said Carey Perloff, former artistic director of San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater and a longtime puppet proponent. “Puppets are a direct conduit to the imagination. Because they can be realistic or totally abstract, they invite audience members to project their own idea of character and circumstance onto a piece of fabric or some papier mache, and thus to transform it into something magical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992942\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Trevor-Aguilar1-scaled-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11992942\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Trevor-Aguilar1-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"A young boy wearing a blue shirt plays with a puppet next to a woman wearing a green dress who is putting string into a bag.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2287\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Trevor-Aguilar1-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Trevor-Aguilar1-scaled-1-800x715.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Trevor-Aguilar1-scaled-1-1020x911.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Trevor-Aguilar1-scaled-1-160x143.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Trevor-Aguilar1-scaled-1-1536x1372.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Trevor-Aguilar1-scaled-1-2048x1830.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Trevor-Aguilar1-scaled-1-1920x1715.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trevor Aguilar finds joy in using his imagination with a dragon puppet. \u003ccite>(Andrew Reed/EdSource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Trevor Aguilar, for one, celebrated his sixth birthday by weaving a tale of intrigue with his new fuzzy friends. He narrated an adventure in which the grandmother puppet saved the townspeople from the evil machinations of the fire-breathing dragon puppet. The last child at the puppet play date didn’t seem to want the fun to end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, some children become so enamored of the marionettes that they make a point of paying a visit to Whitlock and her buckets of puppets every time they visit the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve got my regulars, which is so great,” said Whitlock. “They know exactly what they want. ‘OK, I’m here. I’m getting the raccoon puppet today.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/puppetry-is-far-more-than-childs-play-for-young-learners-in-oakland/715230\">\u003cem>This story originally appeared in EdSource.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Coming out of the pandemic, many children are struggling with imaginative play and make-believe, experts say.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1726598094,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":1419},"headData":{"title":"Puppetry Is Far More Than Child's Play for Young Learners in Oakland | KQED","description":"Coming out of the pandemic, many children are struggling with imaginative play and make-believe, experts say.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Puppetry Is Far More Than Child's Play for Young Learners in Oakland","datePublished":"2024-07-04T07:30:50-07:00","dateModified":"2024-09-17T11:34:54-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"source":"EdSource","sourceUrl":"https://edsource.org","sticky":false,"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/author/kdsouza\">Karen D'Souza\u003c/a>, EdSource","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11992935/puppetry-is-far-more-than-childs-play-for-young-learners-in-oakland","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Puppetry is more than just child’s play at Children’s Fairyland, Oakland’s iconic storybook theme park. Small children have been stimulated by the wonders of live performance at the \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://fairyland.org/events-and-performances/puppet-shows/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Storybook Puppet Theater\u003c/a> since 1956, but now they will also be exposed to arts education programming specially crafted for preschool learners. A new puppet education initiative, \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://fairyland.org/events-and-performances/puppet-shows/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Puppet Playdates\u003c/a>, takes hands-on learning to the next level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once upon a time comes alive for a new generation every Thursday after the 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. puppet shows, when children are cordially invited to a nearby meadow to make friends with marionettes after the curtain falls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent morning, Amber Rose Arthur, 5, wasted no time breathing life into the unicorn puppet, its sparkles glittering in the sun. Every so often, she gently nudged other children with the unicorn’s horn to bestow them with magic powers. In the interests of total disclosure: She gave this reporter some enchantment, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2033px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Amber-Rose-Arthurjpg-scaled-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11992939\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Amber-Rose-Arthurjpg-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl wearing a pink vest holds a puppet on her right hand.\" width=\"2033\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Amber-Rose-Arthurjpg-scaled-1.jpg 2033w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Amber-Rose-Arthurjpg-scaled-1-800x1007.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Amber-Rose-Arthurjpg-scaled-1-1020x1284.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Amber-Rose-Arthurjpg-scaled-1-160x201.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Amber-Rose-Arthurjpg-scaled-1-1220x1536.jpg 1220w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Amber-Rose-Arthurjpg-scaled-1-1626x2048.jpg 1626w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Amber-Rose-Arthurjpg-scaled-1-1920x2418.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2033px) 100vw, 2033px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amber Rose Arthur plays with a puppet. \u003ccite>(Andrew Reed/EdSource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They don’t get enough arts in school anymore, so events like this are great,” said her father, Gregory Arthur, watching as the little girl explored the craft of puppetry and social interactions in one fell swoop. “It stimulates the brain more than a lot of other things. It gets them to think and learn, and it makes them smile.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nestled on the shores of Lake Merritt, this bewitching arts education program invites children to learn the magic of puppetry while immersing themselves in classic fables, including James M. Barrie’s \u003cem>Peter Pan\u003c/em>, Frank L. Baum’s \u003cem>The Wizard of Oz\u003c/em> and Hans Christian Andersen’s \u003cem>The Snow Queen\u003c/em>. This program also lays the groundwork for a proposed puppet education program that will pay visits to early-learning classrooms in Oakland Unified School District (OUSD).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fairyland is designed to inspire a young child to have a great imagination,” said Joy Peacock, client and community relations director for the PNC Foundation, the philanthropic arm of PNC Bank, which is partnering on the puppet-based early-learning program. “It’s not all laid out there for you, like in TV. You have to rely on your own imagination. Puppetry is very interactive, it’s very tactile, it’s very creative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coming out of the pandemic, Fairyland held focus groups with local teachers to pinpoint what kinds of activities would be most beneficial for the preschool cohort, and the takeaway was that children today need more social-emotional learning as well as more exposure to the creative impulse. Enter puppets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that actually made me really sad is that the teachers were saying the children are losing their imagination,” said Maria Rodriguez, manager of the puppet theater. “They’re losing their ability to make-believe. For me, you know, I can’t imagine life without imagination, so I was just like, oh goodness. We need to help inspire the children to learn how to make-believe. We want to help them to light that spark.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/01ZRaXTZKcM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/01ZRaXTZKcM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>That’s basically Jacqui June Whitlock’s calling in life. A former transitional kindergarten teacher with a background in theater and an affinity for puppetry, this is her dream gig. She studied child development in college and the art of shadow puppetry in Bali. She has encountered more than one child who was too afraid to express themselves until she handed them a puppet. Suddenly, they found their voice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, this has been like a lifelong career. Incorporating social-emotional learning with puppetry, that’s my bread and butter,” said Whitlock, a puppet education specialist. “Something wonderful happens when you hand a child a puppet. Puppets are a great conduit for storytelling and learning without putting any pressure on the child.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whitlock is a master at teaching through play. Holding court with a cavalcade of puppets, from rabbits and dragons to cats, after a recent performance of “Peter Pan,” she relishes helping children spin yarns of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been dreaming of doing a program like this for years. It’s amazing that we finally have the funding to do it,” she said. “In America, we tend to think of puppets as simple toys for children, but really, there’s so much more to puppetry. Many other cultures think of them as more than that. They can be a very complex tool.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the play dates, she helps guide groups of pint-sized puppeteers as they learn and play. If a child has a puppet pretend to bite her, for example, she inquires whether the puppet is hungry, opening up a dialogue with the child. But she always wants the kiddo to lead the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They weave their own story,” said Whitlock, who crafts a lot of her own puppets by hand. “You’re not really telling them what the story is, they’re telling you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Empowering children to express themselves is particularly critical right now, experts say, because this generation missed out on so many formative experiences because of school closures and other pandemic disruptions. The arts can be an effortless way to boost special emotional learning, she says, through the kind of make-believe games that children are naturally drawn to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992940\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Childrens-Fairyland-scaled-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11992940\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Childrens-Fairyland-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"Children play with puppets outside.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Childrens-Fairyland-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Childrens-Fairyland-scaled-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Childrens-Fairyland-scaled-1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Childrens-Fairyland-scaled-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Childrens-Fairyland-scaled-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Childrens-Fairyland-scaled-1-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Childrens-Fairyland-scaled-1-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacqui June Whitlock, a puppet education specialist at Children’s Fairyland in Oakland, teaches through puppet play and imagination. \u003ccite>(Andrew Reed/EdSource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Teachers were saying that they were seeing a lack of imagination or a lack of pretend play happening in their classrooms, noticing that children weren’t interacting as much,” she said. “And puppets are an excellent tool for cultivating that pretend play, also just communicating with each other, it’s sort of like a conduit for your personality … It just makes it so easy for them to communicate with each other and break down that barrier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puppets can play a role in helping children communicate on a deeper level, experts say, by externalizing their emotions onto the inanimate object. The puppet becomes a proxy that helps kids process hard situations, grapple with fears and explore their feelings through metaphor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"mindshift_63891,news_11992142,news_11989955","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“One of my favorite things that I’ve observed is that puppet playtime creates a lot of interaction between the grownup and the kiddo,” said Whitlock. “It’s like time slows down for them. Also, I put in a bench recently, so now I’m also seeing a lot of elders, and I love the interactions between grandparents and their littles. It’s very nurturing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, puppetry can also fuel expressions of pure escapism, encouraging little children to create their own big adventures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Children and puppetry go hand in hand because kids have no trouble suspending their disbelief and endowing the simplest props with life,” said Carey Perloff, former artistic director of San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater and a longtime puppet proponent. “Puppets are a direct conduit to the imagination. Because they can be realistic or totally abstract, they invite audience members to project their own idea of character and circumstance onto a piece of fabric or some papier mache, and thus to transform it into something magical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992942\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Trevor-Aguilar1-scaled-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11992942\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Trevor-Aguilar1-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"A young boy wearing a blue shirt plays with a puppet next to a woman wearing a green dress who is putting string into a bag.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2287\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Trevor-Aguilar1-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Trevor-Aguilar1-scaled-1-800x715.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Trevor-Aguilar1-scaled-1-1020x911.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Trevor-Aguilar1-scaled-1-160x143.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Trevor-Aguilar1-scaled-1-1536x1372.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Trevor-Aguilar1-scaled-1-2048x1830.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Trevor-Aguilar1-scaled-1-1920x1715.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trevor Aguilar finds joy in using his imagination with a dragon puppet. \u003ccite>(Andrew Reed/EdSource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Trevor Aguilar, for one, celebrated his sixth birthday by weaving a tale of intrigue with his new fuzzy friends. He narrated an adventure in which the grandmother puppet saved the townspeople from the evil machinations of the fire-breathing dragon puppet. The last child at the puppet play date didn’t seem to want the fun to end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, some children become so enamored of the marionettes that they make a point of paying a visit to Whitlock and her buckets of puppets every time they visit the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve got my regulars, which is so great,” said Whitlock. “They know exactly what they want. ‘OK, I’m here. I’m getting the raccoon puppet today.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/puppetry-is-far-more-than-childs-play-for-young-learners-in-oakland/715230\">\u003cem>This story originally appeared in EdSource.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11992935/puppetry-is-far-more-than-childs-play-for-young-learners-in-oakland","authors":["byline_news_11992935"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_2043","news_32102","news_3778"],"affiliates":["news_33681"],"featImg":"news_11992941","label":"source_news_11992935"},"news_11992142":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11992142","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11992142","score":null,"sort":[1719486058000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-this-classroom-on-wheels-is-meeting-oaklands-unhoused-kids-where-they-are","title":"How This Classroom on Wheels Is Meeting Oakland's Unhoused Kids Where They Are","publishDate":1719486058,"format":"standard","headTitle":"How This Classroom on Wheels Is Meeting Oakland’s Unhoused Kids Where They Are | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>From a distance, the lime-green vehicle with wide awnings looks like a fancy food truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the tricked-out RV has all the necessities of a preschool classroom, including a short toilet and sink, carpeted play area and cabinets full of building blocks, musical instruments and art supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One recent morning, the mobile classroom was parked near a recreation center in Oakland’s Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside, staffers rolled out rugs and laid out books, toys and snacks before gathering a group of children for a singalong. A flat-screen TV hanging on one side of the RV showed “Sesame Street,” but the roughly two dozen toddlers were more interested in chasing bubbles and playing at the sand table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since its launch in November, this preschool on wheels has been going to homeless shelters and city parks in Oakland in an effort to keep more children enrolled in Head Start and Early Head Start programs, which serve children from lower-income families. The stop in Chinatown gives parents who signed up for Head Start’s home visiting program a chance to socialize and get information about their children’s development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, many children weren’t showing up consistently or on time, and a significant number inevitably dropped out, particularly those who didn’t have a stable place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This most recent school year, 78 out 423 Oakland families — or more than 18% — who qualified for Head Start, experienced homelessness, according to Everardo Mendoza, the program’s recruitment and enrollment coordinator. These families can’t afford rent on their own, he said, so they tend to “double up or triple up” in small apartments with other families or sleep in shelters or their cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a way to meet kids and families where they are, Mendoza said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988306\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-34_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988306\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-34_qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two mothers play with their young children on a green rug inside a classroom.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-34_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-34_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-34_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-34_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-34_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families play with their children inside Oakland’s Head Start mobile classroom on May 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t want families to be dropping because they don’t have control of their housing situation,” he said. “We wanted to follow them to wherever they go and continue to provide the services that they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mobile classrooms are increasingly being deployed in places short on accessible and affordable preschools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Colorado, a preschool on wheels rolls up to \u003ca href=\"https://unitedwaydenver.org/news_post/first-mobile-preschool-in-denver-launched/\">Denver neighborhoods with few child care options\u003c/a> and a bilingual preschool on wheels called \u003ca href=\"https://www.aspenpublicradio.org/education/2019-09-09/the-wheels-on-the-bus-el-busesito-preschool-takes-school-on-wheels\">El Busesito\u003c/a> serves Spanish-speaking families in the Roaring Fork Valley. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.lasvegasnevada.gov/Residents/Education/Strong-Start-Academies\">city of Las Vegas\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.xiente.org/programs/preschool-youth-services/mobile-preschool/\">a nonprofit in Philadelphia\u003c/a> also provide half-day early learning programs in their mobile classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s $530,000 investment in its mobile classroom is helping the city meet the growing demand for Head Start. There are more than 400 families on the waitlist for the program, according to the city’s Head Start program director, Diveena Cooppan, who said the program has wrestled with finding enough workers and facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"more on early childhood education\" tag=\"early-childhood-education\"]“A facility where we could have that space for all those classrooms, from infants to preschool, is ideal but rare and hard to find,” she said. “So this model is actually more cost-effective than [operating a center].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout Alameda County, almost 700 families are experiencing homelessness, according to \u003ca href=\"https://everyonehome.org/main/continuum-of-care/point-in-time-count-2024/\">a January point-in-time count survey\u003c/a> — down 17% from two years ago. But experts say that’s likely an undercount because families with young kids often get overlooked, as they are more likely to sleep in motels, their cars or on someone’s couch, as opposed to on the street or in a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why we call it hidden homelessness,” said Erin Patterson, director of education initiatives at SchoolHouse Connection, a nonprofit in Washington, D.C., focused on youth homelessness. “And so it really feels like we are ignoring this whole portion of the homeless population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SchoolHouse Connection \u003ca href=\"https://schoolhouseconnection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Infant-and-Toddler-Homelessness-Across-50-States-2021-2022.pdf\">estimates that in California\u003c/a>, only one in six infants and toddlers experiencing homelessness are enrolled in early childhood development programs like Head Start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a heartbreaking statistic, Patterson said, because these are the kids who need it most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For an infant or toddler to be experiencing homelessness and not knowing where they’re going to sleep during a time when they’re supposed to be potty trained and have routine and consistency, that’s difficult enough,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Programs like Head Start offer a range of support for unhoused families, from free diapers to access to educators who are trained in caring for children affected by trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988312\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-38_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988312\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-38_qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two parents play with a small child outside as a large green truck with the letters 'ready set go' printed on it appears in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-38_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-38_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-38_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-38_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-38_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents Jay and Jasmine play with their 18-month-old son, Jayden, outside Oakland’s Head Start mobile classroom at Lincoln Square Park in Oakland on May 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Everything the parent or the adult in the situation is experiencing in terms of trauma, the child is also experiencing,” Patterson said. “Babies experiencing homelessness carry trauma. They feel stress, but they can’t articulate it with words yet. And so that’s why it’s even more critical to get interventions and supports to them as early as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, who leaned on Head Start services for her son when she was a single mother experiencing homelessness, called the city’s new mobile classroom a “huge game changer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just because your family is going through some housing issues or housing insecurity doesn’t mean that the resources for your children should stop,” she said \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzpQnYLNe2V/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng%3D%3D\">at a news conference\u003c/a> announcing the program last November. “It actually means that you need it more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mobile Head Start classroom currently serves families who signed up for home visits but may not have a steady place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest of the mobile classroom’s spacious interior includes a kitchenette, a health-check station and a computer area — equipped with its own server— where parents can access the Internet to work on job or housing applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988309\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-40_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988309\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-40_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A small Asian boy sits on an outside map on the ground, playing with toys.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-40_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-40_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-40_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-40_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-40_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shi Li Zhong (right) with her two young sons outside the Head Start mobile classroom at Lincoln Square Park in Oakland on May 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We know that in a lot of different areas that we are in, there may not be access to technology, so we want to ensure that’s not a barrier to families,” said Shelley Taylor, who oversees Head Start facilities for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staffers also use the space to conduct developmental screenings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shi Li Zhong, who came to the mobile classroom event in Chinatown, said she didn’t know her older son had a speech delay until he was enrolled in Head Start when he was almost 2 years old. A caseworker referred her to a speech therapist, and she said her son is now starting to talk more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were a lot of things I didn’t know,” Zhong said about being a first-time parent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She came to this event with her second son, who is almost 1, to give him a chance to interact with other children and for her a chance to build community.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In Oakland, nearly 20% of young children enrolled in Head Start are experiencing homelessness — prompting the city to create a preschool on wheels to reach them where they are. 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A flat-screen TV hanging on one side of the RV showed “Sesame Street,” but the roughly two dozen toddlers were more interested in chasing bubbles and playing at the sand table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since its launch in November, this preschool on wheels has been going to homeless shelters and city parks in Oakland in an effort to keep more children enrolled in Head Start and Early Head Start programs, which serve children from lower-income families. The stop in Chinatown gives parents who signed up for Head Start’s home visiting program a chance to socialize and get information about their children’s development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, many children weren’t showing up consistently or on time, and a significant number inevitably dropped out, particularly those who didn’t have a stable place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This most recent school year, 78 out 423 Oakland families — or more than 18% — who qualified for Head Start, experienced homelessness, according to Everardo Mendoza, the program’s recruitment and enrollment coordinator. These families can’t afford rent on their own, he said, so they tend to “double up or triple up” in small apartments with other families or sleep in shelters or their cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a way to meet kids and families where they are, Mendoza said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988306\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-34_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988306\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-34_qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two mothers play with their young children on a green rug inside a classroom.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-34_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-34_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-34_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-34_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-34_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families play with their children inside Oakland’s Head Start mobile classroom on May 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t want families to be dropping because they don’t have control of their housing situation,” he said. “We wanted to follow them to wherever they go and continue to provide the services that they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mobile classrooms are increasingly being deployed in places short on accessible and affordable preschools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Colorado, a preschool on wheels rolls up to \u003ca href=\"https://unitedwaydenver.org/news_post/first-mobile-preschool-in-denver-launched/\">Denver neighborhoods with few child care options\u003c/a> and a bilingual preschool on wheels called \u003ca href=\"https://www.aspenpublicradio.org/education/2019-09-09/the-wheels-on-the-bus-el-busesito-preschool-takes-school-on-wheels\">El Busesito\u003c/a> serves Spanish-speaking families in the Roaring Fork Valley. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.lasvegasnevada.gov/Residents/Education/Strong-Start-Academies\">city of Las Vegas\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.xiente.org/programs/preschool-youth-services/mobile-preschool/\">a nonprofit in Philadelphia\u003c/a> also provide half-day early learning programs in their mobile classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s $530,000 investment in its mobile classroom is helping the city meet the growing demand for Head Start. There are more than 400 families on the waitlist for the program, according to the city’s Head Start program director, Diveena Cooppan, who said the program has wrestled with finding enough workers and facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"more on early childhood education ","tag":"early-childhood-education"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“A facility where we could have that space for all those classrooms, from infants to preschool, is ideal but rare and hard to find,” she said. “So this model is actually more cost-effective than [operating a center].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout Alameda County, almost 700 families are experiencing homelessness, according to \u003ca href=\"https://everyonehome.org/main/continuum-of-care/point-in-time-count-2024/\">a January point-in-time count survey\u003c/a> — down 17% from two years ago. But experts say that’s likely an undercount because families with young kids often get overlooked, as they are more likely to sleep in motels, their cars or on someone’s couch, as opposed to on the street or in a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why we call it hidden homelessness,” said Erin Patterson, director of education initiatives at SchoolHouse Connection, a nonprofit in Washington, D.C., focused on youth homelessness. “And so it really feels like we are ignoring this whole portion of the homeless population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SchoolHouse Connection \u003ca href=\"https://schoolhouseconnection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Infant-and-Toddler-Homelessness-Across-50-States-2021-2022.pdf\">estimates that in California\u003c/a>, only one in six infants and toddlers experiencing homelessness are enrolled in early childhood development programs like Head Start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a heartbreaking statistic, Patterson said, because these are the kids who need it most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For an infant or toddler to be experiencing homelessness and not knowing where they’re going to sleep during a time when they’re supposed to be potty trained and have routine and consistency, that’s difficult enough,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Programs like Head Start offer a range of support for unhoused families, from free diapers to access to educators who are trained in caring for children affected by trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988312\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-38_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988312\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-38_qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two parents play with a small child outside as a large green truck with the letters 'ready set go' printed on it appears in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-38_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-38_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-38_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-38_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-38_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents Jay and Jasmine play with their 18-month-old son, Jayden, outside Oakland’s Head Start mobile classroom at Lincoln Square Park in Oakland on May 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Everything the parent or the adult in the situation is experiencing in terms of trauma, the child is also experiencing,” Patterson said. “Babies experiencing homelessness carry trauma. They feel stress, but they can’t articulate it with words yet. And so that’s why it’s even more critical to get interventions and supports to them as early as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, who leaned on Head Start services for her son when she was a single mother experiencing homelessness, called the city’s new mobile classroom a “huge game changer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just because your family is going through some housing issues or housing insecurity doesn’t mean that the resources for your children should stop,” she said \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzpQnYLNe2V/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng%3D%3D\">at a news conference\u003c/a> announcing the program last November. “It actually means that you need it more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mobile Head Start classroom currently serves families who signed up for home visits but may not have a steady place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest of the mobile classroom’s spacious interior includes a kitchenette, a health-check station and a computer area — equipped with its own server— where parents can access the Internet to work on job or housing applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988309\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-40_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988309\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-40_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A small Asian boy sits on an outside map on the ground, playing with toys.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-40_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-40_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-40_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-40_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240524_MobileHeadStart-40_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shi Li Zhong (right) with her two young sons outside the Head Start mobile classroom at Lincoln Square Park in Oakland on May 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We know that in a lot of different areas that we are in, there may not be access to technology, so we want to ensure that’s not a barrier to families,” said Shelley Taylor, who oversees Head Start facilities for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staffers also use the space to conduct developmental screenings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shi Li Zhong, who came to the mobile classroom event in Chinatown, said she didn’t know her older son had a speech delay until he was enrolled in Head Start when he was almost 2 years old. A caseworker referred her to a speech therapist, and she said her son is now starting to talk more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were a lot of things I didn’t know,” Zhong said about being a first-time parent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She came to this event with her second son, who is almost 1, to give him a chance to interact with other children and for her a chance to build community.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11992142/how-this-classroom-on-wheels-is-meeting-oaklands-unhoused-kids-where-they-are","authors":["11829"],"categories":["news_18540","news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_32102","news_20013","news_27626","news_33388","news_1775","news_34054"],"featImg":"news_11992199","label":"news"},"news_11990691":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11990691","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11990691","score":null,"sort":[1718809244000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-school-district-finds-a-way-to-bring-absent-kids-back-to-class","title":"California School District Finds a Way to Bring Absent Kids Back to Class","publishDate":1718809244,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California School District Finds a Way to Bring Absent Kids Back to Class | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The number of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/exploring-the-spike-in-chronic-absenteeism-among-k-12-students/\">California kids missing too many school days\u003c/a> tripled — from 12% to 30% — during the pandemic, and school districts have been searching for ways to bring them back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The staff at Alvord Unified School District, which serves roughly 16,000 students in Riverside County, turned to technology to help engage with families after staff got overwhelmed tracking attendance and mailing truancy letters to those with three or more unexcused absences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were spending a large amount of time just doing clerical work that didn’t allow them to actually do what needed to be done,” said Ian Fish, who oversees attendance as the district’s assistant director of student services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, at the beginning of the 2022–23 school year, the district hired an outside firm called SchoolStatus to track attendance data and communicate with parents via texts, emails and postcards in multiple languages. Fish said it has freed up his staff to make phone calls or home visits to better understand the reasons behind the absences and offer help such as counseling or connecting families to social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rather than say ‘what’s going on? You’re going to get a citation,’ why not call and say ‘hey, we miss having [your child] in school. How can we get him here? What can we do to support him?’ I think that’s why we’ve seen some progress over the last two years in terms of our attendance,” Fish said, adding that the district’s chronic absenteeism rate improved by 10 percentage points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School districts across California are investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in efforts to detect chronically absent students, \u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/leadership/why-chronic-absenteeism-is-a-budget-problem-too/2024/05\">or to hire firms to do that work for them\u003c/a>, because the amount of state funding they receive depends on enrollment and attendance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvord Unified pays School Status $240,0000 annually for its service, using \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/he/hn/elostrategies.asp\">state funding for post-pandemic learning recovery.\u003c/a> The company said \u003ca href=\"https://www.schoolstatus.com/wp-content/uploads/SchoolStatus_National-K-12-Attendance-Data-Insights.pdf\">in a report released Tuesday\u003c/a> that school districts that use its attendance management strategies saw a 22% reduction in chronic absenteeism between the 2021–22 to 2022–23 school years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We like to say we’re creating a culture of achievement, starting with creating a culture of showing up,” said Grace Spencer, an attendance expert at SchoolStatus. “It starts with notifying parents in a timely, consistent manner, with positive messaging in their family’s home language.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The messages may start with a notification about how many days their child missed school, how much learning time they missed compared to their classmates, and how students who are chronically absent are likely to struggle academically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the absences continue, the system will step up its warnings but it tries to focus on encouraging and celebrating attendance, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Postcards that say ‘we love it when you’re in school. We miss you when you’re not here.’ It’s that personal touch [saying] we want you in school, and school is important,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sending text messages and postcards with language that “stresses common purpose and is more warm than judgmental” might be an effective, low-cost solution to chronic absenteeism, said Stanford University education professor Thomas Dee.[aside label=\"More Education Stories\" tag=\"early-childhood-education\"]However, he said the SchoolStatus report might be overstating the impact of its service since it doesn’t compare the change in chronic absenteeism rate for districts that weren’t using its services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Messaging is an incredibly promising, important, and underutilized strategy for reducing chronic absenteeism, but I can’t say that this analysis credibly establishes the impact of this service,” Dee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he’d like to see the state make this kind of messaging system available to all districts to help them connect with students and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a lot to ask any one district to kind of create the system themselves or contract for themselves, so I think that’s one of the key ways in which California and other states are failing to address the enduring problem we have with our academic recovery from the pandemic,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Education didn’t respond immediately to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"To combat chronic absenteeism, one school district in Southern California is turning to technology to positively engage with students and their families.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1726598103,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":740},"headData":{"title":"California School District Finds a Way to Bring Absent Kids Back to Class | KQED","description":"To combat chronic absenteeism, one school district in Southern California is turning to technology to positively engage with students and their families.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California School District Finds a Way to Bring Absent Kids Back to Class","datePublished":"2024-06-19T08:00:44-07:00","dateModified":"2024-09-17T11:35:03-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-11990691","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11990691/california-school-district-finds-a-way-to-bring-absent-kids-back-to-class","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The number of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/exploring-the-spike-in-chronic-absenteeism-among-k-12-students/\">California kids missing too many school days\u003c/a> tripled — from 12% to 30% — during the pandemic, and school districts have been searching for ways to bring them back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The staff at Alvord Unified School District, which serves roughly 16,000 students in Riverside County, turned to technology to help engage with families after staff got overwhelmed tracking attendance and mailing truancy letters to those with three or more unexcused absences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were spending a large amount of time just doing clerical work that didn’t allow them to actually do what needed to be done,” said Ian Fish, who oversees attendance as the district’s assistant director of student services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, at the beginning of the 2022–23 school year, the district hired an outside firm called SchoolStatus to track attendance data and communicate with parents via texts, emails and postcards in multiple languages. Fish said it has freed up his staff to make phone calls or home visits to better understand the reasons behind the absences and offer help such as counseling or connecting families to social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rather than say ‘what’s going on? You’re going to get a citation,’ why not call and say ‘hey, we miss having [your child] in school. How can we get him here? 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Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders are negotiating the state’s final budget by July 1 after failing to agree on several sticking points, including \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-legislature-budget-gov-gavin-newsom-d0ecb7821c2fb5a02ab46cb1bad6bd8c\">how much social spending the state will cut\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To plug a multibillion-dollar deficit, Newsom proposed in May to halt a multi-year plan to add 200,000 subsidized child care spaces by 2028 and cut 40% in funding for a program that prioritizes emergency child care for foster children and another 45% for another program that provides home visits to CalWORKS-eligible moms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say that would set back five years of work building a program that has been shown to improve the health and well-being of parents and children born into poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a time when there needs to be more investment in the future, taking these kinds of programs away is really just shooting ourselves in the foot,” said Charna Widby, deputy director of Riverside County’s First Five commission, who has been helping to expand the program there.[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CalWORKS home visiting program matches recipients with a nurse, social worker or trained professional for regular visits around the birth and first two years of a child’s life. Advocates say these voluntary home visits can be a lifeline to families during a vulnerable and sometimes isolating life stage. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/calworks-home-visiting-program/evaluation\">An independent evaluation\u003c/a> of the program found that when the participants were referred to housing or mental health services, the majority accessed them. What’s more, participating children received developmental screening at a higher rate than children on Medi-Cal.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"early-childhood-education\"]Widby said it had taken a few years to train the workforce and build the system to provide home visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But it’s started to pick up steam in building capacity, especially in the last two years, so to destabilize that now kind of eliminates a large investment that the state and counties have been making,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the cuts proposed by Newsom go through, Widby said Riverside County can only serve about 200 families — out of more than 20,000 who could be eligible. Legislative leaders want to preserve spending levels for the program in the \u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/system/files/2024-05/summary-of-joint-legislative-budget-plan.pdf\">preliminary budget they passed Thursday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In far Northern California, 13 out of 35 currently enrolled families in Humboldt County could lose access to the home visiting program, said Kathryn O’Malley, supervising public health nurse at the county’s Department of Health & Human Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rural communities have less infrastructure to serve families, and most importantly, those families with the greatest social and economic needs,” she said. “We have less access to transportation, low-income housing, subsidized child care and specialty medical care. Providing home visiting services helps close some of the gaps and assists with accessing services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Advocates say the budget cuts would set back a program that has been shown to improve the health and well-being of parents and children born into poverty.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1726598112,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":10,"wordCount":480},"headData":{"title":"Home Visits for Lower-Income Moms Among California Programs Facing Budget Cuts | KQED","description":"Advocates say the budget cuts would set back a program that has been shown to improve the health and well-being of parents and children born into poverty.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Home Visits for Lower-Income Moms Among California Programs Facing Budget Cuts","datePublished":"2024-06-15T05:00:56-07:00","dateModified":"2024-09-17T11:35:12-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-11990543","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11990543/california-program-providing-home-visits-to-low-income-moms-faces-budget-cuts","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders are negotiating the state’s final budget by July 1 after failing to agree on several sticking points, including \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-legislature-budget-gov-gavin-newsom-d0ecb7821c2fb5a02ab46cb1bad6bd8c\">how much social spending the state will cut\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To plug a multibillion-dollar deficit, Newsom proposed in May to halt a multi-year plan to add 200,000 subsidized child care spaces by 2028 and cut 40% in funding for a program that prioritizes emergency child care for foster children and another 45% for another program that provides home visits to CalWORKS-eligible moms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say that would set back five years of work building a program that has been shown to improve the health and well-being of parents and children born into poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a time when there needs to be more investment in the future, taking these kinds of programs away is really just shooting ourselves in the foot,” said Charna Widby, deputy director of Riverside County’s First Five commission, who has been helping to expand the program there.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CalWORKS home visiting program matches recipients with a nurse, social worker or trained professional for regular visits around the birth and first two years of a child’s life. Advocates say these voluntary home visits can be a lifeline to families during a vulnerable and sometimes isolating life stage. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/calworks-home-visiting-program/evaluation\">An independent evaluation\u003c/a> of the program found that when the participants were referred to housing or mental health services, the majority accessed them. What’s more, participating children received developmental screening at a higher rate than children on Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","tag":"early-childhood-education"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Widby said it had taken a few years to train the workforce and build the system to provide home visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But it’s started to pick up steam in building capacity, especially in the last two years, so to destabilize that now kind of eliminates a large investment that the state and counties have been making,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the cuts proposed by Newsom go through, Widby said Riverside County can only serve about 200 families — out of more than 20,000 who could be eligible. 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