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Author: Adam Pardee Published: Feb 23, 2022 Updated Feb 23, 2022 People spoke outside the ALAS House in Downtown Half Moon Bay prior to a march that took people to Mac Dutra Park. Adam Pardee / Review Source: https://www.hmbreview.com/people-gather-at-the-alas-house/image_41600b84-94d3-11ec-a9d3-fb03d7783097.html

Locals demand affordable housing Author: Emma Spaeth Published: February 23, 2022 Coastsiders march down Main Street on Friday night in a show of support for more affordable housing here. Adam Pardee / Review Adam Pardee On Friday night, a procession of people marched down Main Street from the Ayudando Latinos a Soñar headquarters to Mac Dutra Plaza, holding signs calling for affordable housing. Chants of “Sí, se puede” — “Yes, we can” — could be heard from blocks away as the

Belinda Hernandez Arriaga moved with her family to Half Moon Bay 17 years ago and saw a need for more community support for the immigrant...

Author: Lennie Roberts Published: June 18, 2020 Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga has been responding to the needs of the Latinx community in the Half Moon Bay area since she founded Ayudando Latinos A Soñar, or ALAS, in 2011. A Licensed Clinical Social Worker who holds a PhD in Education, Belinda has focused her efforts on farmworker families, their children, and the youth of the Latinx community in Half Moon Bay. Under Belinda’s leadership, ALAS expanded from a cultural arts and co

Authors: Joaquin Palomino and Tatiana Sanchez Published: May 8, 2020 At San Francisco General Hospital, more than 80% of the first patients admitted for COVID-19 were Latino, nearly three times the rate the hospital usually sees. As people came into San Francisco General Hospital with chest pain, dry coughs and fevers — telltale signs of the new coronavirus — Dr. Vivek Jain noticed an unsettling pattern: The vast majority of people so sick that they needed to be hospitalized

Author: Britany Bowens Published: October 23, 2019 Updated January 20, 2023 Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga answers questions from students and faculty during an open discussion after her lecture. Hernandez-Arriaga was the Latinx Heritage Month Chautauqua speaker on Sept. 26 in the O’Donnell Auditorium. With almost 20 years working in the community and specializing in child trauma and Latino mental health, Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga, an assistant professor of marriage and family the