Veterans
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe County’s Office of Military and Veterans Affairs (OMVA) is one of many County departments gearing up for the region’s largest annual event for unhoused veterans, the Veteran’s Village of San Diego’s Stand Down. The event is scheduled August 9 to 11. It will include an array of resources, and County services, for unhoused veterans.
Animals
Reading Time: 2 minutesSweet doggies, kitties, rabbits, roosters, tortoises, pigs and guinea pigs are looking to steal a piece of your heart. As part of the nationwide Clear the Shelters campaign, all adoption fees for the County’s shelters are being waived.
Health
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe County’s Tuberculosis Control Program is working in close collaboration with Grossmont Union High School District to notify students, staff and volunteers potentially exposed to tuberculosis (TB) during the second semester of the 2023-24 school year at Mount Miguel High School.
Government
Reading Time: 2 minutesA new $750,000 grant will strengthen the County’s efforts to fight unscrupulous employers who cheat workers of their rightfully earned pay.
Health
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe County has two Live Well on Wheels buses (Live WoW) that visit local communities and provide residents with easy access to a wide range of County health and community services right in their own neighborhood.
Families
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt is back-to-school season, and County Child Support Services is giving away hundreds of backpacks filled with school supplies, while supplies last, to families who attend its Super Saturday event.
Elections
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Registrar of Voters needs poll workers for the November Presidential General Election, especially those who are bilingual in any of ten specific languages.
Health
Reading Time: 2 minutesCounty Behavioral Health Services has been awarded $12.4 million in state funding for bridge housing. The funds will be used to create 49 new recuperative care beds for people who are experiencing homelessness and have a behavioral health condition.
Public Safety
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSan Diego County Probation is celebrating National Pretrial, Probation and Parole Supervision Week and California Probation Supervision Week, both of which take place July 21-27.
Health
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCounty health officials are reminding parents and guardians to put vaccines on their child’s back-to-school list.