Mar 21, 2024

Sacramento State’s Disability Cultural Center: Inspiring Change for the Future

In line with Disability Pride Month, Sacramento State University has embarked on a groundbreaking journey by unveiling an innovative Disability Cultural Center in July 2023. This life-altering project aims to give students with disabilities access to a safe, welcoming, and...

Mar 16, 2024

Robotics in Libraries: A Fresh Approach to Teaching Children with Autism

Technology nowadays is so omnipresent that it’s hard to imagine life without it. It streamlines our routines and helps us in ways we never imagined. One of the most heartwarming examples of this can be found in the Santa...

Mar 10, 2024

Addressing The Long-Standing Inequalities Faced by Black Special Needs Students in Sacramento Schools

For parents, their child’s education is paramount. The stories of parents relocating homes and uprooting their lives to ensure a better education for their children are heartbreaking. And when these stories become a common narrative for a particular community,...

Mar 03, 2024

Understanding Autism Through a Child’s Eyes: The Inspiring Journey of Alex Grievous

In the bustling corridors of David Lubin Elementary School in East Sacramento, an eleven-year-old boy named Alex Grievous faced the kind of challenges that many kids with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) confront – feeling different and misunderstood. But unlike...

Feb 22, 2024

The Power and Promise of the Early Start Denver Model for Autism

With increasing numbers of children being diagnosed with autism, there is an urgent need for effective and scalable interventions. Enter the Early Start Denver Model (ESDM), an innovative approach to autism intervention that is making waves in the world...

Nov 29, 2023

Autism Resources in Sacramento

WherecanaparentofaneurodiversechildinSacramentofindhelp?Do you know what resources are at your fingertips? Perhaps the most important question you can ask yourself is how to make the journey more accessible and rewarding for your loved ones. While raising children with autism can present...

Sep 26, 2023

Drowning prevention resources

The Drowning Prevention Foundation partners with the Consumer Product Safety Commission as a Pool Safely Campaign Safety Leader. Watch this video and learn how to keep children safe around pools. Follow the links below for more water safety information. Originally posted...

Apr 02, 2023

Nevada buses hundreds of mentally ill patients to cities around country

Over the past five years, Nevada’s primary state psychiatric hospital has put hundreds of mentally ill patients on Greyhound buses and sent them to cities and towns across America. Since July 2008, Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas has...

Sep 14, 2022

Monkeypox

Since mid-May, cases of monkeypox have been reported from several countries that are non-endemic for this rare disease, including the United States. Several cases have been reported in California, including in Sacramento County. Sacramento County Public Health continues to...

May 15, 2022

National Autism Indicators Report: The Intersection of Autism, Health, Poverty and Racial Inequity

In the year (2020) about 5 percent of four-year-old kids in California received an Autism diagnosis, which is concerning compared to the CDC’s average of 2.2 percent for the same age group nationwide. Research has been actively exploring the...