Families
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe County’s Child and Family Well-Being Department (CFWB) is celebrating its first anniversary in what will be a multiyear transition focused on providing prevention and support services through one dynamic department.
Health
Reading Time: 3 minutesCounty Vector Control crews plan to hand-spray a neighborhood in the Mt. Hope area this week to keep mosquitoes from potentially spreading the dengue virus after mosquitoes were found near a person who contracted dengue outside the U.S.
Elections
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe San Diego County Registrar of Voters office sent over 1.9 million postcards to the County’s registered voters.
Parks and Rec
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe new active recreation area opened today in the northeast corner of Waterfront Park.
Government
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe County’s Office of Equity and Racial Justice and the Nonprofit Institute at the University of San Diego have opened the second round of funding for the Equity Impact Grant program.
Health
Reading Time: < 1 minuteECMO, or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, is a medical procedure for critical care patients with life-threatening heart or lung failure. Last July, the County launched a new pilot program that uses ECMO in a new way. It is now saving the lives of people who suffer sudden cardiac arrest outside of the hospital and who would have otherwise died.
Families
Reading Time: 3 minutesA recent Youth Symposium and Expo hosted by County Probation brought together youth, parents, teachers, people who work with youth and community partners at the Southeastern Live Well Center in San Diego.
Health
Reading Time: 2 minutesPride festival goers can get Mpox vaccines, chill out in the senior cool zone and wave hello to County Library workers as they are honored as grand marshals during the annual Pride Parade this weekend.
Public Safety
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCounty leaders were joined by community partners to celebrate the completion of phase two of the new Youth Transition Campus in Kearny Mesa.
Health
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe County of San Diego and partner agencies broke ground on the region’s seventh Crisis Stabilization Unit Thursday. The “CSUs” are designed to give many people who are in the midst of a behavioral health crisis a calm and better place to become stable and recover than emergency rooms, hospitals or jails.