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California’s water officials neglect their Bill to mandate own laws and waste water by jennifer schlueter child-abuse training for teachers signed into law
It is preferred that you attend all five sessions of the class. Please sign-up prior to the first class session on November 3rd. This program is offered in fulfillment for Ms. Kay’s doctoral dissertation. Participation in the study is voluntary. Jade Kay is a Nurse Prac-
Assemblyman Mike Gatto’s (D-Los Angeles) bill to strengthen training requirements and prevent child abuse in schools was signed into law by Governor Brown Monday. The legislation would require all school employees to be trained according to standards developed by the Department of Education in the proper identification and reporting of child abuse, so that abuse can be stopped in its tracks. Gatto’s AB 1432 addresses the lack of training on how to recognize and report child abuse in K-12 settings. The California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act requires certain professionals, known as mandated reporters, to report to law enforcement or protective services known or suspected instances of neglect, or physical, sexual, or emotional abuse. Despite these requirements, current law does not require school districts to train personnel on detecting and reporting child abuse, nor does it inform them of their responsibilities or that failure to report is a misdemeanor punishable by jail time. Gatto’s legislation addresses this problem by requiring school employees to complete reporting training. The Assemblyman has been working closely with child advocates and State Superintendent of Public Instruction
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California’s law makes water bills of state officials defining water rates and rules public record. Thus, The Center for Investigative Reporting examined their data and found the state’s representatives wasting up to eleven times as much water as the typical California
household. Fresno City Councilman Oliver Baines is responsible for this number, using 4,000 gallons a day. After finding out that he had defective sprinklers using 1.24 million gallons of water in 2012, Baines now cut his usage to 149 gallons per day in March of this
year. According to NBC, he apologized and admitted to not being “a model of water usage.” Next to Baines’ wasting due to leaking sprinklers, Mike Soubirous, member of the Please see page 4
Sleep class to be offered at the Cypress Senior Center A five-week Sleep Class will be offered at the Cypress Senior Center on Mondays, starting November 3 through December 1, 2014 from 10:30 – 11:30 am. The class will discuss sleep, its importance in health maintenance, and the use of Mantram repetition, a meditation–based technique used for management
of stress, anxiety, and pain. Mantram repetition is currently taught to combat veterans with poor sleep and other symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The class will cover stress reduction, relaxation, application of Mantram repetition, one pointed attention, and slowing down for overall health and wellbeing.