BPSOS-Louisville Mobilizes Women for Health Screening

Louisville, KY – BPSOS-Louisville’s partnership with the Americana Family Health Center is helping to ensure better care for women!

Working together, staff members recruited seven Louisville-area women and provided them with free health screenings at the center on April 15.

“BPSOS-Louisville is happy to have such a loyal and generous partner in the Americana Family Health Center,” said BPSOS-Louisville branch manager Brooke Ha. “We look forward to deepening those ties, and to working more with other key partners, like the Kentucky Cancer Program.”

For more information about the services and programs of BPSOS-Louisville, contact Ha at 502.368.1491 or brooke.ha@bpsos.org.

BPSOS - Orange County Shares EPA Excellence Award

Westminster, CA – The Fish Contamination Education Collaborative (FCEC), with which BPSOS-Orange County partners, has received the Citizens Excellence in Community Involvement Award from the Environmental Protection Agency!

The award recognizes community groups and individuals who have made a significant contribution to a Superfund clean-up. This year, the FCEC was nominated by the EPA’s regional office in San Francisco for demonstrating the collaborative group’s leadership skills, creativity and results oriented approach in educating the public about the contamination off the Palos Verdes Shelf (PVS) and its effect on human and environmental health.

“We are excited about receiving this prestigious award,” said Sharon Lin, EPA project manager for FCEC who oversees all the stakeholder involvement. “It’s proof that our collaborative approach is working successfully.” To learn more about BPSOS-Orange County, whether about the FCEC project or in general, contact branch manager Tiffany Nguyen at tiffany.nguyen@bpsos.org or 714.897.2214.

BPSOS-Charlotte Hosts ARC Workshop Charlotte, NC – BPSOS-Charlotte has been lucky enough to benefit from the wisdom of Pastor Trung Nguyen, who last month presented refugee couples with an excellent set of conflict-resolution skills. Nearly 20 people took part in the conflict-resolution workshop, which took place under the auspices of the Assistance for Refugee Couples (ARC) program.

The event at the BPSOS-Charlotte office included lunch and insights into how to avoid deadlocked communication and other relationship traps.

For more information about the ARC program or the other offerings at BPSOS-Charlotte, contact branch manager Linh Quach at 704.596.2169 or linh.quach@bpsos.org.