Roots in the News: “In Oakland, a Job Where Being a Former Inmate Gets You in the Door”
Roots’ social enterprise, Clean360, was featured on KQED 88.5 FM’s The California Report in a piece by Matt Beagle. Read and listen here.
Roots’ social enterprise, Clean360, was featured on KQED 88.5 FM’s The California Report in a piece by Matt Beagle. Read and listen here.
Originally Posted on March 31, 2013 by aquil naji Licensed community clinic Posted on: 31 Mar 2013 The Roots Health Center services individuals that most other clinics have forgotten about. Even in their own countries, the issue of healthcare for them was out of their reach. At Roots Health Center, they are treated the same…
After authorities discouraged crowds over the weekend, Oakland’s Lake Merritt returned to normal Monday morning, with a small number of people enjoying the pathways and sunny blue skies. (Maura Dolan / Los Angeles Times) By Maura DolanStaff Writer July 27, 2020 6:10 PM OAKLAND — As coronavirus cases topped 10,000 in Alameda County last week, Oakland officials…
Spaces are still available! Roots Los Angeles launches the Fatherhood Workshop, a curricula of Timelist Program. At the end of our twelve week workshop, participants will be better prepared to be responsible fathers, create goal-oriented individuals eager to be dutiful father’s, and develop role models for the male youth. Classes meet Thursday’s from 7 pm –…
Learn more about the cost to end homelessness in America, and get statistics about the problems unhoused populations face. According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, it would cost $20 billion to end homelessness in the United States. That is a big number, yes, but let’s put it into perspective: Americans spend…
by JAMAICA SOWELL posted 06.25.2021 Much attention has been focused on the barriers and challenges to accessing health care, highlighted by a pandemic that disproportionately harms Black, Latinx, Asian American Pacific Islander, and Indigenous communities. Barriers to technology or lack of broadband impeded access to MyTurn and other scheduling tools. Barriers to transportation made…