San Clemente Times, Feb 10, 2010 Hispanic and Latino students at Las Palmas Elementary School and San Clemente High School continue to break through cultural and community barriers one homework assignment at a time. With the unrelenting guidance and support of Orange County Human Relations, its BRIDGES Program, a host of retired teachers and other community volunteers, students are beginning
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The Orange County Register, February 5, 2010 Rancho Santa Margarita Intermediate’s BRIDGES Program celebrated and remembered civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with its annual “I Have a Dream” Wall on Friday. More than 250 students shared their dreams and purchased shirts that shared a core BRIDGES value – “Hate is easy but love takes courage.”…click here to read
Read more →The Orange County Register, February 3, 2010 The Huntington Beach father of three thought he was doing all the right things: He worked two jobs, saved his money, kept a roof over his family’s head and always made sure that, no matter what, family came first. His children most likely would have continued down the same path as their father,
Read more →The Orange County Register, January 19, 2010 Two San Clemente communities won a $30,000 grant to increase intergenerational programming. Orange County Human Relations will handle distribution of the money and match the funds with another $30,000. The group soon will begin meeting with community members in Los Mares and Central San Clemente to decide how to use the grant…click here
Read more →The Orange County Register, January 7, 2010 Five community agencies that provide services to non-English speaking Latinos, Vietnamese, Koreans, Pacific Islanders and Iranians are joining forces. They have formed a nonprofit group called MECCA (Multi-Ethnic Collaborative of Community Agencies) to share services and better position themselves for state and federal grants…click here to read more
Read more →US4Arabs.com, January 7, 2010 Muslim leaders, leading Orange County law enforcement agencies, and Orange County Human Relations convened early this morning, January 7, 2010 at the Orange County Sheriff Department in Santa Ana, California to discuss the incident of the desecrated Quran that was found outside the IECOC mosque on January 1st, 2010…click here to read more
Read more →The Orange County Register, January 4, 2010 The Council on American-Islamic Relations denounced two incidents of what it called “anti-Islam hate” after a Quran was found burned in a mosque parking lot and a Muslim component of a holiday display was defaced in Mission Viejo, both on New Year’s Day…click here to read more
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CBS/KCAL November 19, 2009 High school junior Ramiro Gonzalez sees it every day. “Discrimination against not only race, but sexual orientation and gender.” That’s just one of the topics students tackled at the Walk in My Shoes Youth Conference held at UC Irvine….click here to read more
Read more →The Orange County Register, October 29, 2009 Some people in San Clemente have been left out of the loop of available services because their needs are going unheard, according to leaders of a new group called San Clemente Collaborative, which held its first general meeting Wednesday night at the Boys & Girls Club….click here to read more
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The Los Angeles Examiner, October 9, 2009 “I was racially beaten,” Ryan Honeycutt said, as he recounted his horrific beating during Orange County’s 2nd annual conference on hate crime, organized by OC Human Relations, and held October 9 at Coastline Community College in Garden Grove…click here to read more
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