Posts Tagged ‘kids’
Guardian Gym provides a safe space for youth in Oakland
Guardian Gym is a free, non-profit sports facility for boys and girls ages 10 to 24. Its founders opened the gym in Oakland after they realized the profound effect that having a safe recreational space and healthy goals had brought to their own lives. They want to bring those same opportunities to young men and women and help them learn that you can be successful on and off the mat by showing up every day.
Read MorePending legislation aims to limit restaurants from serving sugary drinks to kids
Senate Bill 1192 would require restaurants to serve unflavored milk or water as the default in kids’ meals.
Read MoreChildren’s Hospital doctor talks Oakland violence, trauma consequences
Allison Briscoe-Smith, the director of the Center for the Vulnerable Child at Children’s Hospital in Oakland, sees consequences in Oakland’s violence that extend far beyond the victims to become a public health issue for the entire community.
Read MoreOakland Halloween Events 2012
Halloween in Oakland: there is something fun for all ages.
Read MoreAt North Oakland’s Civicorps, “working green” is part of school
story and audioslides by LINNEA EDMEIER Sept. 21 — Reading, writing, arithmetic and recycling? For students of Civicorps Elementary School, in North Oakland, Saturday’s Coastal Cleanup Day wasn’t just another day at the beach. It was another day of fulfilling Civicorps’s mission of “participating in the life of the community.” At Saturday’s event, Resek, a…
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