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FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 2022
Newsom pledges $50M for opioid fight
With the city’s Interfaith Rotating Winter Shelter hit by the pandemic, the city in November leased housing units at the Davis Migrant Center to provide that shelter instead, but the effort proved to be short-lived.
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resolved so the center can be used as a winter shelter in future years. “It is a really nice facility that sits vacant during the coldweather months,” noted Assistant City Manager Kelly Stachowicz, “and we don’t have other locations in town, in the city limits, identified as shelters. “So it seems like a really good opportunity to make something work,” she said.
California would funnel $50 million into educating young people about the risks of opioids and fentanyl under Gov. Gavin Newsom’s latest budget proposal, which comes as colleges are trying to make students aware of the dangers of those drugs. Opioid overdoses nationwide have accelerated during the COVID19 pandemic. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than 100,000 Americans — and about 10,000 people in California — died of drug overdoses in the year ending in April 2021, a nationwide increase of 28.5% from the year before. And opioid overdose deaths have been steadily increasing for years among Californians age 34 and under, more than tripling from 1999 to 2019, according to Kaiser Family Foundation data. Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, has led to overdose deaths on campuses
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provide that shelter instead.
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Home to migrant farmworkers and their families from April to October every year, the center, which sits about 5 miles south of the city at the end of Mace Boulevard, is unused during winter months.
It seemed like a good solution: With the city’s Interfaith Rotating Winter Shelter unable to provide congregate shelter to the homeless during the pandemic, the city in November leased housing units at the Davis Migrant Center to
Yolo County Housing, which operates the site, and the state,
which owns the land, agreed to the plan, and HEART of Davis — formerly the IRWS — was on board to assist, including by driving clients to the migrant center every evening and back to town every morning. But less than three weeks after the city opened the shelter in late November, the program was shuttered due to a variety of issues, including staffing and public-safety concerns. However, city officials are hopeful those issues can be
New state guidance likely to lead Area colleges will split to fewer students in quarantine up to $16.1M in grant By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer Since school resumed after winter break in the midst of the Omicron surge, the Davis Joint Unified School District has seen COVID-19 cases skyrocket, leaving hundreds of students and staff in isolation after testing positive and even more students in quarantine following exposures. More than 600 student cases have been reported thus far in January and 104 staff cases. On Thursday, there were 121 students and 37 staff members in isolation after testing positive and 218 students
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and one staff member in quarantine following exposure. “We went from having 25 or 30 positive cases on any given day before the winter break to having 300-plus in a day,” said interim Superintendent Matt Best. In fact, he said, up to 20 percent of students, and a corresponding number of staff members, have been out at times. “So really challenging to stay open and serve students the best we can,” Best told a joint meeting of city and school district officials on Wednesday. “We’ve had folks subbing
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Now, new guidance from the California Department of Public Health will likely lead to fewer absences for both students and staff who will no longer need to quarantine following exposure. “Essentially what CDPH is allowing,” said Best, “is to really abandon contact tracing pretty much entirely for a couple of reasons.
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Special to The Enterprise Students from four area colleges and universities will be learning and earning as they serve community organizations through the new #CaliforniansForAll College Corps. The Sacramento Valley consortium, led by UC Davis, will receive up to $16.1 million over two years to recruit and train about 1,000 students and match them with internships at community organizations. The other members are Sacramento State, Sacramento City College and Woodland
Community College. The consortium is part of a program announced Tuesday as the largest state-level investment in a college service program in California history. Its four members are among 45 colleges and universities selected as inaugural partners for the program, slated to involve 6,500 students over two years. Through College Corps, students who serve 450 hours — or 15 hours a week — over an academic year will receive a $7,000 stipend and, on completion, a $3,000 education
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