The director of Orange County’s Social Services Agency talks about the old notions and new faces of poverty and what his agency is doing in the wake of the Great Recession.
Tag: Orange County Social Services Agency
The Orange County Social Services Agency is the county department that stands between residents and food aid, Medi-Cal and cash assistance. We cover new hurdles for the neediest families, hunger that keeps growing and who is left out.
Posted inGovernment, Health & Wellness, Investigative, Top Stories
County, Workers Remain at Odds Over Safety of Office Building
County officials say tests show the air inside the Eckhoff building to be safe and cancelled evacuation plans.
Posted inGovernment, Health & Wellness, Investigative, Top Stories
Air Deemed Safe in County Building
County social workers at the building, located in an industrial section of Orange, allege that working in the building has made them sick.
Posted inCountywide, Housing & Homelessness, Top Stories, Transportation
Helping Those Who Have a Broken Bridge to Adulthood
Already destitute, homeless teens find themselves even more vulnerable after they turn 18. Some are being helped by nonprofits and a new state law.
Posted inGovernment, Top Stories
County Looking Into Previous Owners of Eckhoff Building
The Social Services building, under which potentially cancer-causing chemicals were found, was once owned by an oil drilling company.
Posted inCountywide, Government, Investigative, Top Stories
Tests Reveal Likely Carcinogen Under County Building
Finding comes after years of complaints by employees who said working in the Social Services Agency building has made them sick.
Posted inCountywide, Government, Investigative, Top Stories
Retiree Confronting Cancer Pleads for Testing of County Building
Luisa Fernandez Vasquez, who suffers from a rare bone cancer,
says officials are wrong to fight testing at a Social Services
Agency building in an industrial zone.
Posted inCountywide, Government, Investigative, Top Stories
Supervisors Approve Nguyen’s Changes to CalOptima Board
Health care industry representative added and Nguyen given a
two-year appointment to the $1.3-billion managed health care
program for the poor.
Posted inGovernment
Nguyen’s CalOptima Reorganization Set for Supervisors’ Vote
Plan pushed by Supervisor Janet Nguyen would give the county and
the health care industry more control over the county’s
$1.3-billion health program for the poor.
Posted inCountywide, Government, Investigative, Top Stories
County Workers in Court Over Building They Say Is Toxic
County officials emphatically deny the claims by workers about
the building in Orange.
