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Help every child in our community learn the reading skills to help them succeed in life! The Del Norte Unified School District, School Systems Implementation Team and Building Healthy Communities invite you to participate in a Literacy Symposium from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 7, at the Elk Valley Rancheria Community Center, 2332 Howland Hill Road, Crescent City. Dinner and childcare will be provided. Seats are limited, RSVP today at bit.ly/literacydelnorte or by calling 707-465-1238. 

Join business leaders, educators, childcare providers and parents working together to change the narrative for children growing up in Del Norte & Adjacent Tribal Lands!

Consider the statistics: According to recent data, 66% of children entering kindergarten in Del Norte don’t have the skills they need to succeed, and by third grade, 50% can not read at grade level.

What can we as a community do to reverse this trend and make literacy a priority? Join the movement for college and career readiness in Del Norte & Adjacent Tribal Lands:

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• 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 7

• Elk Valley Rancheria Community Center, 2332 Howland Hill Road, Crescent City, CA 95531

• RSVP online at http://bit.ly/literacydelnorte or call 707-465-1238.

Sponsored by the School Systems Implementation Team; Del Norte Unified School District; and Building Healthy Communities - Del Norte & Adjacent Tribal Lands.

Next week, twenty local residents will travel from Del Norte & Adjacent Tribal Lands to Los Angeles for the five-year celebration of Building Healthy Communities’ 10-year initiative to improve community health outcomes in 14 sites across California. The Building Healthy Communities statewide celebration is themed “Community. Power. Justice. A Healthy California for All.”

The California Endowment will honor and celebrate the work done by communities, such as Del Norte & Adjacent Tribal Lands, to improve the health of Californians with a “Progress to Date” keynote speech from Dr. Robert Ross, President and CEO of The California Endowment; and Dr. Anthony Iton, Senior Vice President of Healthy Communities.

There will also be opportunities to attend numerous sessions and panels on a variety of health and community organizing topics. Several Del Norte & Adjacent Tribal Lands representatives will present to the statewide audience:

• Rachel Marler, BHC Health Career Pathway Coordinator, will co-present with California School-Based Health Alliance and Health Corps, Inc. on “School-Based Wellness: Strategies for Success and Sustainability.”

• Michelle Carrillo, BHC Initiative Director for Del Norte & Adjacent Tribal Lands, will co-present on “Transforming Systems with Youth Power.”

• Alex Fallman and Manuel Saavedra will co-present with fellow BHC youth leaders from Sacramento on the impact of “Voter Engagement” in elections for school board members, district attorneys and other local races that are often decided by hundreds, not thousands of votes each election season.

Finally, a mini-documentary about the local organizing movement and cross-organizational collaborations and agreements that returned cultural burning to Yurok Tribal Lands near Weitchpec will debut at the celebration. 

Building Healthy Communities - Del Norte & Adjacent Tribal Lands plans to hold a local five-year celebration this autumn with reports from project teams including: education, early childhood literacy, food systems, youth and health career pathways.

Want to help change the narrative about what it means to grow up healthy in Del Norte & Adjacent Tribal Lands? For more information on how you can join the movement for a healthier community, visit the BHC website www.bhcconnect.org/health-happens-here/bhcdnatl, call 707-465-1238, follow BHC on Facebook at www.facebook.com/bhcdnatl, or stop by the Wild Rivers Community Foundation, 990 Front Street, Crescent City, CA, 95531.

Our Pathways to Health is a FREE, six-week program that offers individuals living with long-term health conditions tools for managing symptoms and guidance for partnering with their providers. Developed by Stanford University, these workshops are designed to help participants identify and achieve small health goals in an encouraging and private group setting.