Nicholas Hatten is the Founder and Executive Director of the San Joaquin Pride Center (SJCP). A proven leader and agent for change, Hatten has challenged the San Joaquin County and Central Valley to evaluate how it can best serve its LGBT+ community. He forged a collaboration with the Los Angeles Pride Center and other LGBT+ agencies that resulted in a million-dollar Covered California Outreach & Education grant, the first time the Central Valley area was included in LGBT+ specific healthcare work.

As an organizer, Nicholas was instrumental in empowering local LGBT+ youth to advocate for anti-bullying resources and a focus on better school climates for LGBT+ youth on campus. This resulted in the Stockton Unified School District is the very first district in the state of California to include "LGBT" specific language in their LCFF/LCAP budget in 2016. As the recipient of one of three California Reducing Disparities Pilot Project grants, Hatten is now collaborating with California's Public Health Department on a model for increasing acceptance of LGBT+ youth in schools and within the community that will reduce the rate of incidents that lead to mental health illness among our youth.

The mission of the San Joaquin Pride Center is to serve the diverse LGBTQQIA community in San Joaquin County and the surrounding areas by creating a safe and welcoming space, by providing resources that enrich body, mind, and spirit, and by educating the public in tolerance and respect for all people within the LGBTQQIA community. https://www.sjpridecenter.org/

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• Where Art Meets Impact: How creativity drives systemic change. Season 1 and Season 2
• From Bankruptcy to Reinvention: The story of Stockton’s resilience.
• COVID-19’s Impact Series: Navigating the pandemic's effect on our community.
• Making the Invisible Visible: Discover the untold stories of finding home.

Rebekah Fenton a pediatrics resident at Seattle Children’s Hospital and longtime friend of Michael Tubbs, shares her insights into both her support of the creation of the Phoenix Scholars as well as Michael Tubbs’ drive to support access to a college education for low-income first-generation minority high school seniors. Listen to Teenagers: Gun Violence is a Public Health Problem: https://medium.com/@rdlucien/listen-to-teenagers-gun-violence-is-a-public-health-problem-2eb279b56c31

The Phoenix Scholars is the model that Michael Tubbs utilized to create the Stockton Scholars which is a guaranteed college scholarship for any Stockton Unified School District graduate. The Stockton Scholars is a program of the Reinvent Stockton Foundation which Michael Tubbs created and is managed by Michael Tubb’s friend, associate, and Stockton Unified School District Trustee Lange Luntao. Please listen to both Episode 5 [Link to Episode 5 landing page] to find out more about Mayor Tubbs’ and Trustee Luntao’s efforts to address the Stockton Unified School District problems. Find out more about Phoenix Scholars: http://www.phoenixscholars.org/our-program.html

If you enjoyed this episode, dive deeper into our 4-part legacy of impact:

• Where Art Meets Impact: How creativity drives systemic change. Season 1 and Season 2
• From Bankruptcy to Reinvention: The story of Stockton’s resilience.
• COVID-19’s Impact Series: Navigating the pandemic's effect on our community.
• Making the Invisible Visible: Discover the untold stories of finding home.

This is the unedited interview with Nicholas Hatten the founder and Executive Director of the San Joaquin County Pride Center

If you enjoyed this episode, dive deeper into our 4-part legacy of impact:

• Where Art Meets Impact: How creativity drives systemic change. Season 1 and Season 2
• From Bankruptcy to Reinvention: The story of Stockton’s resilience.
• COVID-19’s Impact Series: Navigating the pandemic's effect on our community.
• Making the Invisible Visible: Discover the untold stories of finding home.

When we first broadcast this show in 2017 the latest point in time homeless tally was 7,499 people and was fewer than the prior count in 2015 at 7,539 persons. The City of San Francisco estimates that 15% of the homeless population is families and that around 1,700 residents are chronically homeless which is being homeless for one year or more with a disabling condition.

The expectation in 2017 was that the homeless population would continue to trend downward especially with the City of San Franciso spending $300 million dollars annually in homeless he services. But, sadly since this broadcast in 2017 the latest point in time homeless count in early 2019 identified that the homeless population in San Francisco has risen by 17%. The new higher numbers are associated with national guidelines set by HUD as well as the number of people living in cars, RVs and other vehicles has risen by 45% since 2017.

In this episode, we feature the voice of:

Thank you for listening to this update of our Two-Part show Homeless in San Francisco. Please rate us on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts and share this story with your friends. Follow me @georgekoster and please email [email protected] with questions, comments and show ideas.

If you enjoyed this episode, dive deeper into our 4-part legacy of impact:

• Where Art Meets Impact: How creativity drives systemic change. Season 1 and Season 2
• From Bankruptcy to Reinvention: The story of Stockton’s resilience.
• COVID-19’s Impact Series: Navigating the pandemic's effect on our community.
• Making the Invisible Visible: Discover the untold stories of finding home.

Our voices of the community are:

Edward Reiskin the Director of Transportation of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency also know as SFMTA

San Francisco Board of Supervisor Scott Wiener who also sits on the SFMTA board and

Melvin Clark a long time Muni Operator, Driver, Trainer

Please rate us on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts and share this story with your friends. Follow me @georgekoster and please email [email protected] with questions, comments and show ideas

If you enjoyed this episode, dive deeper into our 4-part legacy of impact:

• Where Art Meets Impact: How creativity drives systemic change. Season 1 and Season 2
• From Bankruptcy to Reinvention: The story of Stockton’s resilience.
• COVID-19’s Impact Series: Navigating the pandemic's effect on our community.
• Making the Invisible Visible: Discover the untold stories of finding home.

The Unpacking Gentrification: Leveraging the Shift in Communities Show will feature a panel discussion I lead with these voices of the community:

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If you enjoyed this episode, dive deeper into our 4-part legacy of impact:

• Where Art Meets Impact: How creativity drives systemic change. Season 1 and Season 2
• From Bankruptcy to Reinvention: The story of Stockton’s resilience.
• COVID-19’s Impact Series: Navigating the pandemic's effect on our community.
• Making the Invisible Visible: Discover the untold stories of finding home.

Our panel discussion focuses on how the lack of affordability is driving the cost of living up in the San Francisco Bay Area and in turn, is continuing to expand economic disparity. Today's Voices of the Community are:

Please rate us on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts and share this story with your friends. Follow me @georgekoster and please email [email protected] with questions, comments and show ideas

If you enjoyed this episode, dive deeper into our 4-part legacy of impact:

• Where Art Meets Impact: How creativity drives systemic change. Season 1 and Season 2
• From Bankruptcy to Reinvention: The story of Stockton’s resilience.
• COVID-19’s Impact Series: Navigating the pandemic's effect on our community.
• Making the Invisible Visible: Discover the untold stories of finding home.