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South Coast Stories

Puente’s infants and toddlers get a special visit from the dentist. Los bebés y niños pequeños de Puente reciben una visita especial del dentista.

Seeing the dentist is a rite of passage that begins in early childhood – hopefully not too often, of course. But for some families in Pescadero, regular dental checkups for their children can run to hundreds of dollars, especially if a child has cavities. And the nearest dentist is a long bus ride away. That’s […]

Women’s health takes center stage at Puente. La salud de las mujeres ocupa un lugar central en Puente.

Tricia O’Hara has met a number of monolingual Spanish-speaking women with unanswered questions about their health – things a doctor would be able to answer, about pregnancy, menopause, cervical cancer and other conditions. “Questions like, ‘How bad is this? Am I going to be okay? Am I notgoing to be okay?’” says O’Hara, who is […]

Puente is 20: finding power in community. Puente cumple 20 años: encuentra poder en la comunidad.

Puente is 20: finding power in community The story of Puente is the story of two different organizations that bridged to each other to form a new Puente. Carol Young-Holt came to the South Coast in 1989, long before Puente. As an early childhood educator, she focused on young children and their families, an underserved […]

The food paradox: farm workers’ search for quality, affordable food in the land of plenty. La paradoja de la comida: la búsqueda de calidad, comida asequible en la tierra de los agricultores.

Ruben Ramirez and Abraham Bernardino know their vegetables. The men are farm workers who grow and harvest crops on a farm on the San Mateo County Coast – ten hours a day, six days a week. The longest hours are right about now, in the late summer. Because of where they live, they both spend […]