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Event Date: Monday, September 19, 2005

What: Reclaiming Futures Santa Cruz County's "Cara y Corazon: Family Strengthening," with Jerry Tello

Time: 9 a.m. Opening ceremony

10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Jerry Tello training with 250 attendees

Where: Henry J. Mello Center for the Performing Arts Watsonville High School, corner of Lincoln and East Lake

Details: Reclaiming Futures Santa Cruz County will host "Cara y Corazon (Face and Heart): Family Strengthening," with nationally acclaimed, cultural-based family strengthening expert Jerry Tello.

The day-long event already has more than 250 family members, substance abuse treatment professionals, probation and parole officers, and community members signed up to attend. They will learn how to strengthen families through a community mobilization approach that assists parents and other members of the extended family to raise and educate their children from a positive bicultural base.

Supported by: Latino Affairs Commission, Migrant Education Program, PVUSD Adult Education and Seniors Council.

Contact: Yolanda Perez-Logan, Project Director, (831) 454-3845, prb285@co.santa-cruz.ca.us

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