A bulletin board at the La Familia Counseling Center in South Sacramento is crowded with flyers advertising everything from homework clubs to help with preparing taxes. The nonprofit center has offered free programs to the neighborhood’s large Latino population for decades. But in a year marked by immigration raids, mass shootings and family separations at the border, staff say it’s been a challenge to bring people together.
Executive director Rachel Rios recalls a recent event that drew lower-than-usual attendance. It was just a few days after the August 3 shooting in El Paso, Texas, that killed 22, many of the victims Latino.
The programs are part of a collaboration called “Salud Con Dignidad,” or “health with dignity,” and partners include the center, the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California, the International Rescue Committee and the Sacramento Native American Health Center. Dignity Health awarded a grant to the effort this spring.
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