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East Bay Health, Housing & Public Services Immigrant Rights Labor & Workers

Oakland's Street Level Health Project offices broken into and vandalized

by M.

Tue, Jul 21, 2009 10:54PM

On Sunday, July 19, Oakland's Street Level Health Project offices were broken into and vandalized. The perpetrators destroyed equipment, and stole two computers. The break-in took place while the security cameras were down due to repairs taking place in the building. This has forced SLHP to close down for a week and turn away people seeking health services.

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“The people who did this only prevented community members from getting help,” said Kim Barstow, Street Level’s clinic manager, who had to turn away 20 patients including a young man experiencing pain related to a recent car accident. The man was originally treated at Highland Hospital but came to Street Level for follow-up care. The offices will remain closed to the community until the police investigation is finalized.
Oakland's Street Level Health Project is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the health and well-being of underserved urban immigrant communities in the Bay Area. It is an entry point to the health care system for those most often overlooked and neglected, namely the uninsured, underinsured, and recently arrived.

For more information: http://www.streetlevelhealth.org/

§Oakland's Street Level Heath Project offices

by M.

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§the computer on the left was hit with a hammer

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§office 2

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§Laura Perez

by M.

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Laura Perez is the Director of the Street Level Health Project and a founding member of the Oakland Workers Center Consortium. Ms. Perez immigrated to the US at the age of 18. Working as a housecleaner and childcare worker in these early years gave her firsthand experience of the challenges and discrimination faced by low-wage and immigrant workers. In 1999, Laura moved
to California and began working into the health field. She began working for the UCSF Community Occupational Health Project in 2003 as a Clinic and Outreach Coordinator, and organized a highly successful outreach program to janitors and
nail salon workers.
In 2005, she assumed the Directorship of the Street Level Health Project and has been a driving force inexpanding the program’s free clinic and in developing a range of case management, mental health, nutritional, social and advocacy programs for under-served urban immigrants. She is one of the founders her tireless work for the community, she was the recipient of the Community Justice Award presented by Centro Legal de la Raza and the Barbara Lee Special Congressional Recognition for Community Justice. In
September 2007, Laura was selected as one of the top 10 Community Health Leaders across the country by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Laura's story was recently highlighted in the San Francisco Chronicle.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/16/CMTKUDCKD.DTL

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