Central Valley Community Council (CVCC)

Hello! San Joaquin county residents!! Hope you all are staying cool this weekend! Here are places where you can go to stay cool if your place is too hot and do not have access to AC. ... Stockton: The SPOT Youth Respire Center Women’s center 729 N. California st. Stockton Daily 8:30am-5pm 209-929-6737 Gospel Center Rescue Mission 445 S. San Joaquin st. Stockton Daily 8am/8pm Stockton Shelter Drop-in ( Men only) 411 S. Harrison Entrance Stockton Daily: 7am-3:30pm Lodi : Salvation Army Hope Harbor Shelter 622 N. Sacramento St. Lodi 209-367-9560 Cooling center open until 4pm Air conditioned dining room , cold water and restrooms avail Tracy : Tracy transit station 50 E. Sixth St. Tracy Monday- Friday 8am-7pm Saturday- 10am-6pm West Valley Mall 3200 Naglee Road Tracy Monday- Saturday 10am-9pm Sunday 12p-7pm *** free bus rides on fixed routes are offered on days the temperature in a Tracy is forecasted to be 100 degree or higher. Ridertracer.com 209-831-4287

Hello! NorCal is partnering with Department of Rehabilitation ( DOR) Of Stockton and Modesto to provide workshops for Deaf and Hard of Hearing people who are interested in getting to know more about what DOR services that are available for them and how they can support! Want a job? Want a change of career? Want to go to school?... If your answer is yes! Come and join us to find out how!!! The next workshop is on June 7th at 10:00am!

Update!!! See flyer at the end of this video and in the comments.

Seeking for a job??! Want to go back to college??? Here’s how! Come and join us on April 8, 2021 at 2pm via Zoom!! In order to get Zoom ID# and passcode, please contact: Jessica Cruz at [email protected] VP# 209-451-9080... or contact DOR Counselor, Sandra Amundsen at [email protected] VP# 209-409-3314

On March 19,2021 at 6pm City of Stockton is hosting their first Drive-In movie The Crood: A New Age Rated PG will be playing. Caption provided! Where: UEI College parking lot ( behind Weberstown Mall) 4994 Claremont Ave Stockton, CA 95207 ... Time: 6:00PM Everyone must stay in their car. Please bring ur own drinks and food. There will be portable restrooms available. Must wear masks when u are out of the car.

Please share this on your page for teachers of Deaf children and for families of deaf children who are interested in attending to webinars! Flyers are in English and Spanish!

Free hand sanitizers and masks! Contact NorCal if you can’t make it.

***FREE!!!*** ***FREE!!!*** ***FREE!!!*** Come and pick up your free bag before it’s all gone! First come first serve! Come and visit us! We would love to see you all!

SHORT-TERM JOB COACH Looking for short-term job coach to work with deaf/hard of hearing consumers, need to be flexible with different swing hours. If interested, please send your resume to Michael Deming at [email protected]

Ability Job Fair for disabilities online on Thursday, July 23rd. Check out the link: https://abilityjobfair.org/

Governor Gavin Newsom provides an update on the state’s response to #COVID19.

#DRI #RID #NorCal #CalOES #CDI #DeafAgency Visual Description: A woman with short blond hair and a dark grey sweater with round glasses sitting outside with a ...wood fence and some foliage behind her. Full Transcript Below: Hello! My name is Jac! Yes, I'm outside right now, I feel like the weather is just perfect. So I've gone outside the house for a nice change of pace. I wanted to share with you all information about DRI. DRI stands for Disaster Response Interpreter. This is a program who's name keeps popping up, DRI, DRI, DRI... People that live in California are seeing it a lot on social media. I get warm feelings seeing the viability of this program now. It great that we are seeing more of this accessibility. This means we need to host more trainings and to see more Deaf involvement would be wonderful! Now, before we talk about the training, let's take a step back. How do Deaf people get involved? Let's explain what DRI is. What is required of DRI interpreters, what are the expectations? So that when the trainings occur we will see an increase in Deaf interpreters join the trainings and At the same time have an understating of California’s requirements and can attend press conferences happening out there and be even more accessible for Deaf people in the state of California. Now, DRI is what exactly? It stands for Disaster Response Interpreter. The program was set up to recruit the most qualified and experienced interpreters, both Deaf and hearing interpreters who are out in the field recruiting experienced interpreters screened who pass and stand ready when the state has a natural disaster or crisis to deploy these interpreters. The main concern from the Governor's office and the Dept. of Homeland Security, is that interpreters pass the security clearance and background check by CALOES in order to stand next to the Governor. When you see someone standing next to the Governor with a badge, you know they have security clearance in order to keep him safe. The DRI program achieves that. The goal of the training is to pass the background and security clearance check. If you pass then perfect, then you can be deployed. You can stand next to important people like the Governor or the Mayor and everyone knows it is safe. I can't speak for all other states they have different rules. Here, in California, we have very strict security, after 9/11 security became even more tight and strict. What it means the interpreter has to go the training and learn, what is CalOES, The California Office of Emergency Services, their system itself, has different departments their roles, the terminology to learn, what’s my role as an interpreter means, I need to know what to do and pass the training, pass the fingerprinting, pass the background check, then be approved for security clearance and get a badge with your face on it. With California Office of Emergency Services on it (CALOES). When the interpreter goes to press conference, goes to a shelter, those who work there will recognize the badge and see that the interpreter is cleared for security. Mostly for press conferences. The training shares information to help you be prepared. Right now we need need more DRI training, it's important to expand the program. Yes we have traveled all over the State of California in different cities to conduct trainings. I myself have been a Co-Trainer for DRI since 2008. It's been an honor for me to help develop the curriculum, I even got approval to teach in 2 or 3 states, it's wonderful. Now with COVID19 we are thinking of new ways to do things, maybe an online training, that is something we will look into as a possibility. Right now our focus is on Coronavirus, COVID19, developing an online training takes time but we are looking into it. Right now we have 23 Certified Deaf Interpreters(CDI) in California. 23. Out of those 23 CDI we have 10 that are DRI certified. 10. Right now all the press conferences are being held in Sacramento. In Sacramento we have one CDI/DRI. One. They have been working on a county level at CALOES briefings. We also need to look at the local level, city and county press conferences remain inaccessible, no interpreters or captioning. There are many gaps that still need to be addressed. Clearly we need more Deaf Interpreters to be trained and certified. Our most recent training was canceled due to COVID19. Understand that's not normal. When we have a new system in place we look forward to more people joining. Some of you have brought up RID guidelines you use them for DRI but RID and DRI are two different things worlds apart with their guidelines. DRI is when you get approved by CALOES, DHS and checked off all areas for security clearances. RID has different guidelines. Want to be clear about the differences. One doesn’t manage the other, no oversight responsibilities over the other. Separate organizations. DRI is an approved program under CALOES stands by itself. CALOES, NorCal, and other Deaf Agencies really support collaboration and want to recruit more CDI. Right now its critical that we work together and support each other. CALOES is also interested addressing these issues. So join us, collaborate, and support the interpreters working out there. Support when we can and provide feedback. Those DRI interpreters who are available out there please make yourselves available to jump in and support. I hope my explanation has been helpful to understand what is a CDI vs DRI, and what the state of California requires. We look forward to hosting a training that will be available to you. Come join us. Make things more accessible for all Deaf Californians. Stay healthy and safe, bye now!

In response to the recent pandemic, Children and Youth Services has launched a warm line for youth. A clinician will staff this newly established warm line 7 days a week from 11:30am to 8:00pm (holidays excluded).