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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - On Tuesday, assorted Fresno leaders met connected an "emergency summit" to code the imaginable impacts of national cuts successful assorted Fresno County organizations.
According to Fresno County Supervisor Luis Chavez, the caller national backing cuts person already terminated the Exceptional Parents Unlimited and the West Fresno Family Resource Center contracts.
Chavez says these organizations supply "services including aboriginal involution for children with developmental delays, parental education, mobile wellness services and culturally grounded enactment for families successful underserved areas" - the nonaccomplishment of backing means less resources for families already facing hard circumstances.
In total, Chavez states the cuts scope from $11 cardinal to $13 million. Tuesday's exigency acme aimed to "humanize" the issue. He says region leaders, including nonprofits, are moving to minimize the imaginable interaction the cuts could person connected residents.
"For close present until the extremity of the year, we volition beryllium capable to supply for agrarian communities, but present the municipality area, radical that are homeless, that request ongoing aesculapian attention, they won't person entree to these services due to the fact that of these cuts," helium said.
Chavez says much than 52% of Fresno County residents person immoderate work from the county, including aesculapian services, nationalist wellness oregon workforce improvement programs.
"When you are taking distant people's wellness coverage, erstwhile you are taking distant people's medication, to maine that is captious and indispensable services for our residents. It's a precise antithetic happening than to accidental we are paving a roadworthy oregon possibly postpone reconstructing the street, arsenic opposed to postponing redeeming somebody's life, that's a precise antithetic conversation," helium said. "There are priorities that should beryllium disconnected the table."
The supervisor adds that Centro Binacional para el Desarrollo Indígena Oaxaqueño, Cultiva La Salud, FCHIP Fresno HOPE Hub, Reading & Beyond, UCSF (Metropolitan Mobile Health), Nisei Farmers League (Insure America Project) and the Valley Center for the Blind are besides facing imaginable cuts and person received preliminary notices.
Chavez says, up of much imaginable cuts, leaders volition beryllium hosting much summits to prepare.
