Salud Para La Gente in collaboration with Digital Nest has produced a community awareness video about COVID-19 in Spanish. The video explains what has been disseminated by public health with relevant examples of how to apply the information to daily life in familiar settings. It also shares how to reach needed resources like food, health...

Stay informed. Salud Para La Gente is here for you during the COVID-19 emergency. Watch a community awareness video available in Mixteco. The video explains what has been disseminated by public health with relevant examples of how to apply the information to daily life in familiar settings. It also shares how to reach needed resources...

COVID-19 has hit communities hard across the world. Our California Central Coast community, with beautiful ocean views and rich agriculture land, is no exception. Many of us have sheltered in place and social distanced at home. However, farmworkers and other essential workers continue to work. Especially now, as local farmworkers prepare for the busy agricultural...

Salud Para La Gente (Salud) supports Santa Cruz County enacting an emergency ordinance to protect renters:  Santa Cruz Sentinel: SANTA CRUZ — by Jessica A. York   Amidst a pandemic and statewide shelter-in-place order affecting renters’ livelihoods, local jurisdictions are moving to offer protection from eviction for residential and commercial tenants.    Gov. Gavin Newsom empowered...

Salud is proud to partner with food justice group Food What?! to address food scarcity in our community.  —  Good Times: SANTA CRUZ — by Lauren Hepler    How federal rule changes could hurt struggling locals. In the flatlands of south Santa Cruz County, winter’s short days and blustery cold have already taken their toll...

Santa Cruz Sentinel: SALINAS — Salud Para La Gente and Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas received federal grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Rep. Jimmy Panetta announced Tuesday. Salud Para La Gente in Watsonville received a federal grant of $1.82 million…

Santa Cruz Sentinel: SANTA CRUZ — by Tara Fatemi Walker   Statewide program EWC (Every Woman Counts) provides free breast and cervical cancer screening and diagnostic services to California’s underserved populations. EWC’s purpose is to save lives… [Learn from two Salud Para La Gente (Salud) staff members about the importance of cancer screening and the...

Register-Pajaronian: WATSONVILLE — SEEDS creates savings account for newborns. Beginning this month, babies born in Watsonville will have a small head start toward college. That’s thanks to Santa Cruz Community Ventures, which has launched Savings and Engagement for Education and Development Success, otherwise known as SEEDS. The program will launch with newborn babies from Salud...

“Moving Healthcare Upstream” — the Salud Para La Gente (Salud) entry in the Beyond These Walls Video Contest 2019 — received over 60,000 votes to win first place. As the Grand Prize Winner, Salud will receive a $5,000 marketing package from Uptown Studios.