It will be a long time before this country reckons with the legacy of the Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant families, for months at a time, in detention centers and tent cities at the U.S.-Mexico border – a policy that continues, despite the President claiming otherwise. Yet in cities and small towns across America, […]

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 […]

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 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 […]