Southern California Tribal Chairmen’s Association TANF Newsletter Tribal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families July 2018 – Volume 21 Issue 7 UCSD Honors Eight Native American Graduates By Karin Giron, Education Coordinator, SCTCA TANF Escondido On June 14, 2018, the Intertribal with the “wrong crowd.” Resource Center (ITRC) at the University When he lost all hope and was of California San Diego (UCSD) hosted contemplating suicide as his last option, its annual Native Graduates Honoring Benally was approached by a stranger Ceremony. who sparked a conversation. Benally The Native community, campus said the stranger didn’t talk down to him community, friends and family gathered because he was homeless, but instead at the Sheraton in La Jolla to recognize made him feel like he mattered. This eight graduates. As is customary, the new-found friendship guided him to the ceremony began with a welcome and path he is on now. Benally encouraged blessing from Kumeyaay community the graduates and attendees to pursue member Stanley Rodriguez of the Iipay whatever their passion is in life and Nation of Santa Ysabel. provided his own road map for SUCCESS: After dinner, Abram Benally, Navajo, delivered the keynote address. Benally •See the goal gained prominence for his appearance •Understand the obstacle on the television completion series, America Ninja Warrior. An advocate for •Create a positive metal picture suicide prevention, he strives to inspire •Clear mind of self-doubt a generation by promoting health and wellness through calisthenics. •Embrace the challenge Benally knows about the value of hard •Stay on track work, setting goals and overcoming •Show the world you can do it. obstacles. He shared how his journey took him from being a college athlete at Arizona State University to being Each year the ITRC also honors homeless on the streets of Phoenix community members at their ceremony. at age twenty-two. He believes his Upon arriving, I was surprised to see my homelessness was a direct consequence husband, Richard DeCrane, and myself of the choices he made as a student; listed at this year’s honorees. instead of studying, he got caught up DeCrane, Apsáalooke and Diné, is a Sierra Trujillo, Mesa Grande Kumeyaay Indians (Continued on page 2) Tribal Members From Santa Ysabel And Viejas Attend Gathering Of Nations In New Mexico Contributed by Brandie Taylor, Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel Photo by Vanessa Christman On the last weekend of April, in four Gathering of Nations Grand about 25 Kumeyaay – including more Entries and were featured on the than a dozen children - attended the event’s Jumbotron. Gathering of Nations in Albuquerque, Relatives and Bird Singers and New Mexico. traditional dancers from Fort Yuma, The Ashaa Takook Bird Singers, Fort Mojave and CRIT attended the which consists of young men from Gathering as well. Santa Ysabel and Viejas, were invited The Gathering of Nations is an to sing on April 27th & 28th. annual event that draws well over Miss Kumeyaay Darilyn Pena of a thousand tribal members from Santa Ysabel and Little Miss Kumeyaay across the country. Reece Christman of Viejas appeared

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S U EST. 1875 I N S E I A Ñ O I N D (Continued from page 1) UCSD Honors Eight Native American Graduates widely respected community member. Each graduate was also given an The Southern California Tribal Chairmen’s Association This year he served as an advisor to opportunity to share their experience (SCTCA) publishes the Tribal Temporary Assistance for the Native American Student Alliance or thank those in their lives who Needy Families (TANF) Newsletter throughout the year at: and the Intertribal Resource Center on supported their educational journey. SCTCA / TANF a variety of topics, including this year’s All the graduates thanked their family, P.O. Box 1470 Powwow. He provided valuable guidance grandparents, and ancestors. A Valley Center, CA 92082 E-mail: [email protected] to the Native American students at common thread in all of their speeches (760) 746-0901 Ext. 100 UCSD. He has become an integral part of was the support provided by the ITRC ITRC programming, including teaching a and the students of the Native American The newsletter is designed and printed by Tribal Print beading class, leading the first annual Student Alliance. Source, a division of SCTCA. Powwow workshop and drumming for Sierra Trujillo of Mesa Grande, shared Native American Heritage Month. how her journey took her from several The purpose of the Tribal TANF Newsletter is to provide the tribal communities with information about services According to its program, the ITRC colleges and universities, until finally provided by the TANF Programs and other important issues recognized Karin Giron, Quiche, as an transferring to UCSD. She stated that concerning our rural/urban communities and families. “outstanding community member who she couldn’t have done it without the was a huge help in advising for this year’s support system she found at UCSD’s SCTCA provides services to San Diego and Santa Barbara Powwow.” They also acknowledged the ITRC. Alexandra Kilkenny Hansen, Acoma Counties and the following reservations: work I do at Southern California Tribal Pueblo, shared that she didn’t have a Barona Cahuilla Chairmen’s Association (SCTCA) through community when she first arrived at Campo Ewiiaapaayp our Tribal TANF program with Native UCSD. Fortunately, in her 3rd year she Inaja/Cosmit Jamul La Jolla La Posta youth and their families. As an Education stumbled upon the ITRC and admitted Los Coyotes Manzanita Coordinator, I provide academic, cultural she doesn’t know if she could have Mesa Grande Pala and prevention services to our Native made it without the community and Pauma Rincon youth residing in the urban areas of support she found there. San Pasqual Santa Ysabel northern San Diego. Santa Ynez Sycuan The main honorees of the Viejas night were the graduates. PLEASE NOTE: This ceremony is unique No articles or pictures published in the SCTCA TANF because each student is given Newsletter may be reprinted or used in any manner the opportunity to select without the expressed written permission of SCTCA. someone who’s played an SCTCA is not responsible for any errors / mistakes on integral role in their lives to submissions added to our newsletter. place their graduation stole and medallion on them. The Publisher: SCTCA stoles are hand crafted by Editor: Gary Taylor community member, Carla Contributor: Colleen Turner, Editor and Contributor, 1998-2018 Printers: Tribal Print Source Tourville, Tule River Yokuts, and the medallions were Copyright ©2018 hand-crafted by the DeCrane family. 2018 UCSD Native American Graduates

Kayleen Fulton, Haida Tribe Lily Ramirez, NASA Member Master’s Degree in Oceanography Bachelor’s Degree in Ethnic Studies and Public Health Alexandra Kilkenny Hansen, Acoma Pueblo Bachelor’s Degree in Public Health Dalayna Sampton, Willamette Valley Clackamas Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology Izzy Narvaez, Hopi/Navajo Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science Sierra Trujillo, Mesa Grande of Kumeyaay Indians and Critical Gender Studies Bachelor’s Degree in Human Biology with a Minor in Religious Studies Brody Patterson, Mono Tribe Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science Monica Valdez, NASA Member Bachelor’s Degree in Physiology and Neuroscience

2 –––– DISPATCHES –––– Native Americans Veterans Washington Honored at Santa Ysabel

Swinomish fishermen, Skagit River, 1963 In early June, the United States Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4 on a vote regarding tribal sovereignty in the state of Washington. In this case, though, the deadlock was actually a dramatic victory for the Swinomish Indians – and Native Americans across the country. The Swinomish have been battling Washington for decades over The sky was a cloudless blue, but the wind was strong on the state’s damage to salmon habitats. The tribe contended the Memorial Day at the Santa Ysabel Indian Mission. state has decimated the salmon population, in direct violation of Near the beginning of a May 25 ceremony honoring Native the Stevens Treaties, signed in 1854. The state had given millions of acres to the Swinomish in exchange for “the right to take fish,” American veterans, one strong gust of wind toppled a large according to an article in the New York Times. But in the early Memorial Wreath. 1970s, the state “sought to control where Native Americans could The Wreath was quickly picked up and placed upright again. fish, and tribal members asserted their treaty rights through acts “This Wreath is a symbol of all those who fought for our of civil disobedience…and litigation,” theTimes wrote. country,” said George Arviso of the Rincon Band of Luiseno Federal courts have consistently sided with the tribe, ruling Indians. “And when this Wreath fell, it was picked up right away the state violated the treaties it had signed by destroying salmon habitats and reducing the amount of fish available to the and set right. This is what Memorial Day means. When one of Swinomish. But the state held it had its own rights that eclipsed our warriors fall, we are there to pick them up.” Native American sovereignty. The 30-minute ceremony in the Mission Cemetery honored The Supreme Court’s deadlock – because it did not strike down all Native Americans of the Iipay Nation, including those who earlier rulings- effectively upheld the federal courts that had ruled served in World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and Native American sovereignty and treaty rights were violated by Iraq and Afghanistan. Their names were read aloud by Stanley Washington. Rodriguez, a tribal member and Desert Storm veteran who For the Swinomish, the victory means the state must repair all the damage caused to salmon habitats near Skagit River. This served in the Persian Gulf. must be done by 2030, at an estimated cost of more than $2 After every name was read, a bell was rung, acknowledging billion dollars. his or her service. More than 60 names were read. As the Times noted, the decades-long legal fight destroyed not At the conclusion of the ceremony, tribal veterans marched only the salmon population but altered the tribe’s traditional way in single file out of the cemetery, the colors whipping in the of life: wind. The aging warriors held on tightly. “There was a time when the murky waters of the Skagit River - Gary P. Taylor offered bountiful salmon harvests to the Swinomish Indians of Washington State. They could fill an entire boat with one cast of the net back then, and even on a slow day, they could count on hauling in dozens of fish. “…Swinomish and other Native Americans have seen their salmon harvests dip by about 75 percent over the past three decades. In fact, the Swinomish have greatly curbed their fishing. They used to fish pretty much nonstop from June through December. But now, with the low stock, they get only about 35 days of salmon fishing a year. The tribal salmon harvest in western Washington peaked at 5.3 million in 1985, but was down to 1.3 million last year.” The Swinomish have won a great victory for tribal treaty rights and Native American sovereignty. It is also confirmation, at the highest level of our nation’s court system, of tribal authority, traditions – and dignity. - Gary P. Taylor 3 CULTURE Powwows and Gatherings: A Summer of Native American Dance, Tradition, Culture and Color By Gary P. Taylor, SCTCA TANF

In the sunshine of summer, Native Americans throughout San Diego County celebrate their culture and traditions at Powwows and Gatherings. In the 2018 Calendar provided at the beginning of the year to Southern California Tribal Chairmen’s Association (SCTCA) TANF participants, there are several passages on Powwows and Gatherings. The passages include the following:

Why We Dance To dance is to pray, To pray is to heal To heal is to give, To give is to live To live is to dance

“From Sycuan in the south to Pala in the north, tribal members come together for days and nights of celebration. Men and women, children and adults, tribal members and non-Natives are drawn by the thousands to these events that begin in the warmth of mid-May and end in the early autumn of September.

Powwows and Gatherings are held on reservations at Mesa Grande, Santa Ysabel, Rincon, Viejas, La Posta, Sycuan, Pala, San Pasqual and Barona. At some of the Powwows there are days and nights of Native American dancing…and there are many dances: Grass Dance, Fancy Dance, Shawl Dance, Jingle Dress Dance, Smoke Dance, Northern Style Dance and Southern Style Dance, among many others.” According to Indians.org., “The term Powwow originally stood for a healing ceremony conducted by the spiritual or religious leaders of various tribes. “ …The Powwow is thought to have originated as a religious ceremonial meeting, filled with dancing and other rituals. Other Indian tribes adopted the practice of the Powwow and added their own traditions. Indians held these ceremonies to celebrate a successful hunt and to thanks the spirits for a bountiful harvest. Powwows also spiritually prepared a warrior for an impending battle.

4 5 6 “Native Americans are big believers in all things living and spiritual and viewed life and death as an inevitable circle. Some of the Powwow ceremonies they conducted celebrated this circle with tribal drums, dancing, food, chanting and traditional healing rituals. They acted out ancient stories handed through the generations, which kept their history alive.” It remains much the same all these years later, when Native Americans gather in remembrance and celebration, in the warmth of summer Powwows and Gatherings.

Upcoming Powwows and Gatherings

Campo Star Gathering Saturday, July 21

La Posta Mat Kwa’tay Matayum Saturday, July 21

Mesa Grande Tekamuk Gathering Saturday, July 28

Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel Gathering Saturday, August 4

Barona Cultural Gathering Friday, August 10 and Saturday, August 11

Rincon Fiesta Friday, August 17, Saturday, August 18, Sunday, August 19

Pala Honoring Traditions Powwow Friday, August 24, Saturday, August 25, Sunday, August 26

Viejas Gathering Saturday, August 25

Barona Powwow Friday, August 31, Saturday, September 1, Sunday, September 2

Sycuan Powwow Friday, September 7, Saturday, September 8, Sunday, September 9

7 It’s Summer, School’s Out – A Perfect Time For Reading By Gary P. Taylor, SCTCA TANF

Most kids think of summer as a time to relax, go to the beach, hang out with friends – and no school reading assignments. “During the summer, I recommend my students participate But kids – especially Native American children - should in their local libraries’ Summer Reading Programs and continue reading during the summer break, according to the TANF Reading Award Program,” she said. “Even local educators. business like Barnes & Noble, Chuck E. Cheese, and the San Karin Giron, Education Coordinator at Southern California Diego County Fair have summer reading programs.” Tribal Chairmen’s Association (SCTCA) TANF Escondido, said Roy Moore, Education Coordinator at SCTCA TANF Pala, summer reading is crucial to closing achievement gaps. believes reading can also expand students’ horizons. “Research shows that low-income students’ achievement “I believe reading is important for kids because it helps gap grows (in summer) when compared to their peers,” strengthen their thought processes, vocabulary, and Giron said. “The easiest way to combat the achievement gap communication skills,” Moore said. “Also, reading helps and the summer slump is to encourage children to read. It’s open their minds and expands their horizons. Reading sends important for children to read during the summer because kids on an imaginative journey through different locations it allows their brain to continue to exercise, by using their and experiences. It allows kids to get a better understanding imagination, improving their vocabulary and reading of another’s perspective or perception. Reading is an comprehension.” opportunity for kids to put themselves in other people’s Giron said children should find some way to read shoes, so to speak, and walk a mile in them.” throughout the months they are out of school. Children can also begin to understand the differences

8 and encourage them to explain what they read by asking open-ended questions. By turning off the screens and taking a trip to your local library, children can start a new summer tradition that supports education and creates amazing memories.” Nicole Butticci-Weston, who is the Education Coordinator at SCTCA TANF San Diego, said parents can also help their children by following a few reading tips. “Just like playing a sport or learning a new instrument requires practice, reading skills must be exercised, too,” said Butticci-Weston. She provided tips to encourage children to practice their reading skills over the summer break: 1. Set a reading schedule by dedicating at least 20 minutes a day to reading (such as reading before bed or after a meal). 2. Encourage your child to find a book they enjoy. You can get books from the library, browse magazines at the store, search for e-books on their favorite reading app, or even read recipes. 3. Set a good example by taking time to enjoy a book yourself. Butticci-Weston believes children following these tips– and their parents or any adults around them – will enhance their reading skills. So finding a good book and reading can be one more way to spend some time in the summer sun.

“The easiest way to combat the achievement gap and the summer slump is to encourage between what they read and what they see, Moore said. “(Through reading) kids will understand the importance children to read.” of how books are adapted in movies or television shows and see the real difference between a book and a movie or show,” he noted. “In my opinion, I believe that reading a book is almost always better than watching a movie because the book is adapted through your own imagination, while a movie is adapted through someone else’s imagination.” Jacqueline Joyce-Harper, also an Education Coordinator at SCTCA TANF Pala, said children can read for pleasure. “Reading during the summer not only helps students maintain their reading skills, it provides unique opportunities to read for pleasure,” Joyce-Harper said. “Providing interesting and engaging materials such as comic books, magazines of interest or even cookbooks can increase literacy. From Pokemon to Disney, allow your child to read

9 HISTORY Slaughter of Buffalo Was Cold, Cruel - And Deliberate By Gary P. Taylor, SCTCA TANF

“Where there were myriads of buffalo the year before, there were now myriads of carcasses. The air was foul with a sickening stench, and the vast plain which only a short twelve months before teemed with animal life, was a dead, solitary desert.” -Colonel Richard Dodge, United States Cavalry, describing the Great Plains, 1873 The slaughter of millions of buffalo on the Great Plains in the late 19th century is unprecedented not only in American history, but world history. Never before, or since, has an animal been hunted and killed to virtual extinction in such a short period of time. In less than 20 years, from roughly 1860 to 1880, the number of buffalo in North America was decimated, falling from more than 30 million to less than a thousand on the Great Plains. “As startling as the numbers behind this mass buffalo slaughter are, most settlers seemed to view the animal as just one small step in manifest destiny, the Army realized, the Indian would also western plains, in its effect upon the the quasi-religious belief that American die. Indians,” Columbus Delano, Secretary of settlers were destined to own the land Again, from Phippen’s article: the Interior, wrote in 1873. of the New World all the way from the “One (Army) Colonel… four years “…These men (hunters) have done in Atlantic to the Pacific,” wrote Nickolaus earlier, had told a wealthy hunter who the last two years…more to settle the Hines in an article published on the felt a shiver of guilt after he shot 30 bulls vexed Indian question than the entire history website ati. in one trip: “Kill every buffalo you can! regular army has done in the last 30 The slaughter was constant – and Every buffalo dead is an Indian gone.” years,” said General Phil Sheridan, Civil deliberate. “I read that army commanders were War veteran and then commander of From J. Weston Phippen, in an article even providing bullets to these hunters,” the Military Division of Missouri. “They published in 2016 in The Atlantic: said Andrew C. Isenberg, author of The are destroying the Indians’ commissary… “Thousands of buffalo runners came, Destruction of the Bison, and a professor For the sake of a lasting peace, let them sometimes averaging 50 kills a day. They of history at Temple University. “The kill, skin and sell until the buffaloes are sliced their humps, skinned off the hides, military looked at what the private sector exterminated.” tore out their tongues, and left the rest was doing and they didn’t need to do The loss of the buffalo devastated on the prairies to rot. They slaughtered so anything more than stand back and the Plains Indian tribes, including the many buffalo that it flooded the market watch it happen.” Sioux, Cheyenne, Shoshone, Arapaho and the price dropped, which meant they Isenberg said though it was never and Crow. S.E. Gwynne, author of the had to kill more. In towns, hides rose in official policy to kill buffalo in order to Indian historical account, “Empire of the stacks as tall as houses. This was not the control Native Americans on the Plains, Summer Moon,” concluded in his book: work of the Army. It was private industry. the Army was certainly conscious about “Killing the Indians’ food was not just an But that doesn’t mean Army officers and it. And at least in action, Isenberg said, accident of commerce; it was a deliberate generals couldn’t lean back and look at it “they were extremely explicit about it.” political act.” with satisfaction.” If it was not official policy, it certainly An act of deliberate cruelty, Which cuts to the undeniable truth of was spoken policy. unprecedented in death and destruction, why the buffalo were slaughtered. “I would not seriously regret the total to both the Native American and the In killing the buffalo, both settlers and disappearance of the buffalo from our buffalo.

10 GALLERY At Fair In Del Mar, Native American Art Is Prominent Every summer, the San Diego County Fair in Del Mar accepts hundreds of pieces of art to display. Among those pieces are dozens of sculptures, paintings, drawings and photographs of Native Americans, their culture and traditions. This year was no different. During the Fair’s month-long run from early June to July 4, artistic displays of Native Americans were located throughout the Fairgrounds. Several pieces were displayed prominently in the Grandstand area, especially among the photography exhibits. The art was seen by tens of thousands of fairgoers. On this page are three pieces from the Grandstand – one sculpture, a black and white drawing and a mixed color painting. - Gary P. Taylor

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Space #39 – Computer Lab Classes: May 1st – Aug. 31st, 2018 MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY Self Paced Class MICROSOFT Word Intro to PC’s MICROSOFT Word 10 Key Class 8:30am–10:30am 8:30am–10:30am 8:30am–10:30am 8:30am–10:30am 8:30am–10:30am Staff Wanda Charles Wanda Wanda

Self Paced Class MICROSOFT Excel Intro to PC’s MICROSOFT Excel Keyboarding 10:45am–12:45pm 10:45am–12:45pm 10:45am–12:45pm 10:45am–12:45pm 10:45am–12:45pm Staff Wanda Charles Wanda Wanda

Self Paced Class Self Paced Class Computers Lab Self Paced Class Computer Class 1pm–4am 1pm–4am 1pm—4pm 1pm–4am closed @ 12:45pm Staff Staff OPEN LAB Staff on Fridays

Two Directions Computer Labs are open at all times during business hours. Make sure to sign in and out to receive work participation hours. 13 JULY 2018 Escondido Escondido BG Associates – SCTCA TANF • 201 E. Grand Ave., Suite 2D, Escondido, CA 92025 Office Hours Monday - Friday, 8:30am–4:00pm • Phone: (760) 737-0113 • Fax: (760) 737-0581 MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY ABE/GED Life Skills/ ABE/GED Phillip Roy/ ABE/GED 9am–11am What Color Is My 9am–11am Welding 9am–11am Parachute 9am–11am Spanish (online/app) Spanish (online/app) Phillip Roy 9am–11am 9am–11am 9am–11am Math/English/ Clerical/Office

Phillip Roy/ GED Refresher 9am–11am & Phillip Roy/ Keyboarding Health Care 9am–11pm 11:30am-1:30pm Mechanics 9am–12pm 9am–11am (varies by client) 9am–11am Keyboarding (online) Keyboarding Keyboarding Reading Horizons Reading Horizons 9am–12pm 9am–10am 9am–12pm 11:30am–1:30pm 11am–1pm Reading Horizons Applied Skill Practice Computer Skills Life Skills/ Computer Skills 11am–1pm (GED) (GED Prep) (General) am pm Practical Life Skills 11:30am–1:30pm 11:30 –1:30 11am–2pm Open Lab/Job Search 11:30am–1:30pm /Applied Skills/ Open Lab/Job Search Open Lab/Job Search Open Lab/Job Search ED2GO /Applied Skills Open Lab/ /Applied Skills/ED2GO /Applied Skills 8:30am–4pm 8:30am–4pm Job Search/ 8:30am–4pm 8:30am–4pm (varies by client) (varies by client) Applied Skills (varies by client) (varies by client) 8:30am–4pm (varies by client)

To sign up, contact: Kayleigh Omish-Guachena, Training Director at (760) 737-0113 ext.13, [email protected] El Cajon SCAIR Learning Center • 239 W. Main Street, El Cajon, CA 92020 Office Hours Monday - Friday, 9am–4pm • Phone: (619) 328-0676 MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

Job Readiness Career Development Job Readiness 9am–4pm Career Development 9am–4pm 9am–4pm Academic Tutoring 9am–4pm Job Readiness (All Subjects) Career Development am pm Individual Training Plan 9 –4 Job Readiness am pm 9am–4pm am pm 9 –3 9am–4pm 9 –4 Individual Training Plan Individual Training Plan 9am–4pm Individual Training Plan Counseling Services Job Readiness am pm 9 –4 9am–4pm Counseling Services 9am-4pm 9am–4pm Counseling Services 9am–4pm Counseling Services Quickbooks Certification Career Development 9am–4pm am pm Quickbooks Certification 9 –4 Training 9am–4pm Quickbooks Certification Training Quickbooks Certification 9:30am–11:30am Individual Training Plan Training 9:30am–11:30am Training Parenting Training 9:30am–11:30am 9am–4pm Microsoft Computer 9:30am–11:30am 11am–1pm Microsoft Computer Certification Training Academic Tutoring (All Subjects) Academic Tutoring Counseling Services Certification Training Noon–2pm 9am–5pm (All Subjects) 9am–4pm Microsoft Computer Noon–2pm Academic Tutoring 9am–5pm Certification Training Independent Computer Lab (All Subjects) Microsoft Computer 9am–4pm Academic Tutoring Noon–2pm (All Subjects) 9am–5pm Sacred Pipe TUPE Program Certification Training 9am–5pm Traditional Parenting oon pm 7/11, 18 & 25 N –2 7/10 Noon–2pm 3:30pm–5:30pm Ready to Work Training SCAIR Closed 7/24 12:30pm–1:30pm Observance of 4th of July

14 **No Microsoft Computer Certification Training Santa Ynez JULY 2018 Santa Ynez – SCTCA TANF • 185 W. Highway 246, Suite 102, Buellton, CA. 93427 Office Hours Monday - Friday, 8am–4:30pm • Phone: (805) 688-1756 • Fax: (805) 688-6827 MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY Monday Office Hours: Career Building Life Skills Parenting Friday Office Hours: 8am - 4:30pm 9am 9am 9am 8am - 4:30pm Open Lab/ Open Lab/ Open Lab/ Job Search Job Search Job Search 12:30pm-2pm 12:30pm-2pm 12:30pm-2pm Basic Computers Career Basic Computers Skills Networking Skills 2pm 2pm 2pm Manzanita Manzanita SCTCA Tribal Training Program • 39 A Crestwood, Boulevard, CA Phone: (619) 766-3236 MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY Culture/ GED Prep World of Work GED Prep Tutorial Entrepreneurial Class 10am–1pm 9am–12pm 10am–1pm 9am–12pm 9am–12pm Computers GED Prep Computers Native Arts & Crafts 10am–1pm 12:30pm–3:30pm 10am–1pm 12:30pm–3:30pm Parenting Class 12:30pm–3:30pm

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