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Commentary: Rare Consensus by DA and Public Defender Overshadowed by Local Politics

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 04, 2019
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Commentary: Rare Consensus by DA and Public Defender Overshadowed by Local Politics

Last month, the Davis City Council, pressured by neighbors on Pacifico, acknowledged that the Pacifico lo ...

Last month, the Davis City Council, pressured by neighbors on Pacifico, acknowledged that the Pacifico location was not the best position for the residential treatment center proposed by the county fo ...

June 04, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Anger and Frustration Come Out in Informational Meeting on Pacifico

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 11, 2019
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Anger and Frustration Come Out in Informational Meeting on Pacifico

A packed room on Thursday at Montgomery Elementary What was supposed to be an informational meeting on Th ...

A packed room on Thursday at Montgomery Elementary What was supposed to be an informational meeting on Thursday night at the overflowing library at Montgomery Elementary became a site of anger and fru ...

January 11, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Starving for Tax Cuts… Literally

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: April 22, 2018
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Guest Commentary: Starving for Tax Cuts… Literally

By Michael Bisch and Zane Hatfield A safety net can’t do its job if it is torn apart. If it is torn apar ...

By Michael Bisch and Zane Hatfield A safety net can’t do its job if it is torn apart. If it is torn apart, the people it is designed to protect are left in peril. Currently, the Federal Government is ...

April 22, 2018
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Davis High Student Almost Released to the Streets by Mental Health Hospital

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 08, 2018
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Davis High Student Almost Released to the Streets by Mental Health Hospital

On Friday as the world was about to enter the New Year’s Day three-day weekend, just after 5 pm the Vangu ...

On Friday as the world was about to enter the New Year’s Day three-day weekend, just after 5 pm the Vanguard received a frantic call from Kristin, the mother of an 18-year-old Davis High School studen ...

January 08, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Letter: On Changes in the Child Welfare System

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 01, 2017
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Letter: On Changes in the Child Welfare System

(**ANONYMOUS FOR FEAR OF RETALIATION. I was not sure how else to provide this submission but hope it can ...

(**ANONYMOUS FOR FEAR OF RETALIATION. I was not sure how else to provide this submission but hope it can somehow reach the community) I have long wished to comment on the situation in our community su ...

May 01, 2017
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Gina Daleiden Named First 5 Yolo Executive Director

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: January 14, 2016
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Gina Daleiden Named First 5 Yolo Executive Director

Four months ago, First 5 Yolo selected former School Board Member and Yolo County Deputy Supervisor Gina ...

Four months ago, First 5 Yolo selected former School Board Member and Yolo County Deputy Supervisor Gina Daleiden as its interim Executive Director. Now, after conducting a four-month, nationwide sea ...

January 14, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

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My View: The Plight of Supervisor Rexroad and Why We Must Protect Our Children

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 25, 2015
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My View: The Plight of Supervisor Rexroad and Why We Must Protect Our Children

Any parent who has followed the account of Yolo County Supervisor Matt Rexroad and his 18-month saga with ...

Any parent who has followed the account of Yolo County Supervisor Matt Rexroad and his 18-month saga with the toddler he lovingly refers to as the “Bonus Baby” had to have their hearts torn out by the ...

July 25, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Mental Health Board Urges Reconsideration of Usage for Former EMQ FamiliesFirst Site

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 09, 2015
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Mental Health Board Urges Reconsideration of Usage for Former EMQ FamiliesFirst Site

By Bob Schelen and Cass Sylvia There is an existing contract which will use Mental Health Services Act (M ...

By Bob Schelen and Cass Sylvia There is an existing contract which will use Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) housing funds for a housing project on the site of the old Yolo General Hospital. On May 2 ...

July 09, 2015
| by Vanguard Administrator

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County Withholds Information on Death of Justice Rees

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: March 13, 2015
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County Withholds Information on Death of Justice Rees

As there have been numerous media inquiries concerning general child welfare practices and related legal ...

As there have been numerous media inquiries concerning general child welfare practices and related legal standards, Yolo County has developed the attached Child Welfare Fact Sheet to address frequentl ...

March 13, 2015
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Saving Foster Care in Yolo County

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 22, 2014
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Saving Foster Care in Yolo County

In the early morning hours of December 7, 2009, my wife and I received the call that would change our liv ...

In the early morning hours of December 7, 2009, my wife and I received the call that would change our lives. A baby girl had been born in Woodland the day before and needed a good safe home. We respon ...

December 22, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Foster Funding Snafu May Have Led To Removal of Saylor From First 5

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 17, 2014
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Foster Funding Snafu May Have Led To Removal of Saylor From First 5

The Yolo County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 on Tuesday to remove Supervisor Don Saylor as the board re ...

The Yolo County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 on Tuesday to remove Supervisor Don Saylor as the board representative on First 5 Yolo Commission. While the move followed some discussion about a rotati ...

December 17, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Foster Care and Beyond

Posted by Tia Will
|Date: November 03, 2014
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Foster Care and Beyond

by Tia Will In response to the recent Vanguard article “If We’re Going to Focus on Healthy Children, Let’ ...

by Tia Will In response to the recent Vanguard article “If We’re Going to Focus on Healthy Children, Let’s Get to the Core Issues” a poster wrote: “Children are almost always very attached to their pa ...

November 03, 2014
| by Tia Will

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EBOLA – Safety and the Hazards of Fear

Posted by Tia Will
|Date: October 26, 2014
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EBOLA – Safety and the Hazards of Fear

by Tia Will This is a three-part article. I have been asked to write an article on Ebola I have included ...

by Tia Will This is a three-part article. I have been asked to write an article on Ebola I have included some factual information about the disease, a description of our local precautions for the mana ...

October 26, 2014
| by Tia Will

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Senator Wolk Applauds New Law on Crisis Nurseries, Push for Action on Oil by Rail

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: September 30, 2014
| (1) Comment

Senator Wolk Applauds New Law on Crisis Nurseries, Push for Action on Oil by Rail

Wolk applauds new law supporting crisis nurseries in Yolo, throughout state Governor signs bill to remov ...

Wolk applauds new law supporting crisis nurseries in Yolo, throughout state Governor signs bill to remove unnecessary restrictions driving up nurseries’ operation costs State Senator Lois Wolk (D-Dav ...

September 30, 2014
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Mental Health Services Turn a Corner in Yolo County

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 23, 2014
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Mental Health Services Turn a Corner in Yolo County

by Robert Canning This week on NPR, two San Antonio mental health police officers were featured in a stor ...

by Robert Canning This week on NPR, two San Antonio mental health police officers were featured in a story about diverting mental health patients away from the criminal justice system, which has becom ...

August 23, 2014
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Our Medical System – What I Believe is Possible

Posted by Tia Will
|Date: July 27, 2014
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Our Medical System – What I Believe is Possible

by Tia Will With the proposal and subsequent approval of the ACA, concerns have been expressed about the ...

by Tia Will With the proposal and subsequent approval of the ACA, concerns have been expressed about the destruction of our free market system of medical care. I would like to address this from the po ...

July 27, 2014
| by Tia Will

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Obamacare – A View from the Front Line

Posted by Tia Will
|Date: July 19, 2014
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Obamacare – A View from the Front Line

by Tia Will As an advocate of single party payer health care administered through an integrated health ca ...

by Tia Will As an advocate of single party payer health care administered through an integrated health care model such as Kaiser, I was not happy with the ACA. I wanted more. But that has not stopped ...

July 19, 2014
| by Tia Will

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Crisis Nursery Pilot Program Advances in State Senate

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 28, 2014
| (1) Comment

Crisis Nursery Pilot Program Advances in State Senate

AB 578, authored by State Senator Lois Wolk (D-Davis) and Assemblymember Roger Dickinson (D-Sacramento) p ...

AB 578, authored by State Senator Lois Wolk (D-Davis) and Assemblymember Roger Dickinson (D-Sacramento) passed the Senate Committee on Human Services on Tuesday with a bi-partisan, 4-0 vote. The bill ...

June 28, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Need for better Access to Mental Health Crisis Services in Yolo County

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 01, 2014
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Sunday Commentary: Need for better Access to Mental Health Crisis Services in Yolo County

I have told this story before here, but it bears repeating. In 2011, shortly after our then seven-year-ol ...

I have told this story before here, but it bears repeating. In 2011, shortly after our then seven-year-old nephew came to live with us, he experienced some serious mental health problems. Not knowing ...

June 01, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Crisis Nursery announces $200,000 in emergency grant funding

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 29, 2014
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Crisis Nursery announces $200,000 in emergency grant funding

(from press release) The Friends of the Yolo Crisis Nursery have amassed $200,000 in emergency grant fund ...

(from press release) The Friends of the Yolo Crisis Nursery have amassed $200,000 in emergency grant funding to keep the nursery open beyond its threatened June 30 closure, said Heidy Kellison, presid ...

May 29, 2014
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