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PCCs First Year Pathways program recognized among most effective in nation at increasing Latino student success in college
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Dyson shining on volleyball court for PHS By SHEL SEGAL
The project will also address how Medicaid, through its early periodic screening, diagnosis, and treatment benefit, can pay for SBIRT services. The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation supports this project.
For Ruby Dyson, it’s all about winning on the volleyball court. And that’s something she’s very good at. So good that the senior for the Pasadena High girls’ volleyball team and three-year varsity starter is hoping to take her game next year to either NCAA Division I or II. “I think just trying to get to college and trying to get a scholarship, just being able to do what I love to do beyond high college,” Dyson said in response to a question about her next step. Dyson said she plays volleyball year-round and that started at a very young age. “I started with my cousin Shelby, who graduated last year, and it just started with her, peppering and pumping the ball around. I was 9,” Dyson said. “And then I started my club season when I was 9. I’ve just been playing ever since.” She added she gets a real high from doing well. “At first, it was just kind of something extracurricular to do,” she said. “But whenever you get a kill or whenever you get a block, knowing that the team needs you it’s something that feels good. It’s just a good experience. I really love it.” Helping Dyson’s success on the court has been her height, and she stands at 6 feet, 4 inches tall. And while that is unusual for a girl, Dyson said she just uses it to her advantage. “People think I can’t hear them talking about me, but I do,” she said. “And I don’t care. That makes me want to capitalize on that. That drives me to show them,
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Elected officials and higher education leaders from across the country came together at the St. Regis Washington, D.C. hotel on Tuesday to honor Pasadena City College’s First Year Pathways program as a finalist among America’s
top programs that increase academic opportunities and increase achievement for Latino students. PCC’s First Year Pathways was selected from among 217 competitors from 26 states, the District of Columbia, and Puer-
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Pasadena charity Hillsides selected to participate in national initiative to reduce adolescent substance abuse The National Council for Behavioral Health has selected Hillsides as one of 29 community behavioral health organizations from across six states to participate in the Reducing Adolescent Substance Abuse Initiative. This two-and-a-half year
project is designed to help providers systematically implement a screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) protocol to address substance use among adolescents ages 15–22 who receive services for an emotional disturbance or a psychiatric disorder.