here i am, second year in a row, and i'm already signed up for next year's. (man) register today for the... because everyone deserves a lifetime. hello and welcome to "comunidad del valle." today helping families stay in their homes. housing trust of santa clara county and wells fargo bank are in our studio. this is your "comunidad del valle." we begin today with the loop us. foundation of northern california. our guest in the studio is a patient but also here to talk

about fitness and exercise. she has a special program. this is thing that afflicts everyone, latino, african-american. it doesn't matter. tell us about lupus, briefly, if you will and the good work you're doing. >> the good work we're doing at the lupus townation of northern california, we're focused on research. lupus affects more than 1.5 million americans, more than ms and aids combined. a lot of people don't know that. i was shocked as a patient to first learn that. we are partnered with the lupus research institute out of new york city. the private novel funder of public research. we provide services for patients where patients can come from just newly being diagnosed to people who have had the illness for a while to people who are interested in helping the foundation and grow the momentum we are gaining about awareness about lupus. >> is there screening? how can we tell if i might be

prone? >> well, there is a genetic component to lupus. >> there is. >> absolutely. and environmental triggers can promote the disease. some of the tests include blood work like your dna and ana. the best thing to do is go to a doctor and talk about your clinical symptoms. how do you feel? do you have joint pain? do you have a butterfly rash? fatigue is the biggest complaint of lupus patients. is there hair loss? do you feel like you have the flu? >> you're fighting it. tell us about how you're doing and how you fought it so far. >> well, thank you. the first thing i did was when i was diagnosed i took the advice of my doctors and went within a medication program that was recommended to me. that did happen to be immuno suppress sents. i incorporated a mindful, smart diet and exercise that's easy to low, low impact and helps build

strength in your muscles to take the weight off your tendons and joints. >> you're representing the lupus foundation but also have your own company and getting people in shape and making sure we're able to fight this. >> right, exactly, yeah. >> tell us about that. >> that's a lot of fun. together we like to come together and listen to good music and do lightweights, but also low-impact aerobics which will get your heart up and help you burn calories but at the same time do what is important which is create a sustainable program for you. this program is designed for people specifically with arthritis pain, like myself, not only do i have lupus, but i have osteoarthritis. it's a challenge to move in the right ways. i use my degree in mechanical engineering to formulate exercises to help us do that. together it's a program where people can exercise from a chair or stand up and use a step, work to their ability, find their own path, modify the exercises for themselveses. but i modified and created new

exercises. i make it easy with people even with pain, to work through and create the long-term anti-inflammatory effect. >> there's a lot going on at west valley college. >> an awesome walk. it's the biggest event of the year and raises awareness about lupus. it's a 5k walk. we have live music and a program of wonderful singers and it's a way for people to get together, learn about lupus and participate together. >> i know being diagnosed is a scary thought. put folks at ease, if you will, those who might be apprehensive about getting the screening and testing done those who have maybe just been diagnosed. walk them through the scary process if you will. >> goodness. it is scary. i mean, i remember being scared, myself. but the number one thing is to get to the doctor. with the treatments these days, you need not be that scared. there are a lot of new drugs coming down the pipeline. in addition to that, one people

can take ownership of their own health and work with their doctor and incorporate some proper diet methods, they're going to feel okay. the drugs help you. they, with early diagnosis, can be the key to your recovery. so lupus can be difficult to diagnos diagnose. it's extremely important to get to a rheumatologist or general doctor as soon as you feel these symptoms and it will be okay. the other thing people can do is feel free to call the lupus foundation. we have many support groups. >> we do have information up for you. if you want to get ahold of the lupus foundation, there's a phone number and web address and your website. is that correct? reaganmov reaganmoves.com? >> it is. go ahead with your correction. >> lfnc. >> thank you so much and for the work you're doing and for providing ease if you will for our patients. >> the lupusa foundation of

northern california is awesome. we're progressive and a lot of happy, positive people that can help you. thanks for having us. up next on "comunidad del valle," the ywca.

dr. carrie mcclain is with us on "comunidad del valle," ceo of the ywca of silicon valley. welcome to our show. >> thank you for having me. >> tell me about the ywca. there's a latino component with ywca. >> absolutely. that's why i love the opportunity to talk to you and the audience. people say the yw, they don't normally think it's for the latino population. we deliver services to 18,000 people in our community. 65% of people are color. in our youth services, 86% are latino. we do boys and girls, men and women. our after-school programs are definitely there for people who

want to be part of our services. >> and has the economy hit your organization? >> absolutely. just like everybody else. everybody's own checkbook, the yw's checkbook is hard. we are an organization really that provides so many social services in the community. we live with the kindness, literally, of people who write us checks of $50 and $100, and even though they can't write that same check, they sometimes somehow are able to give it, at least half of what they gave. we have waiting lists. we have waiting lists in counseling for particularly our spanish clients. we keep hoping we move as quickly as possible to meet everyone's needs. >> that's great. wells fargo bank is here. alex torres, always carries his checkbook from wells fargo. maybe our next segment. >> i know a slealex. wells fargo has been good to us.

they have supported -- i think you have young girls running around the studio today from our tech girls, and wells fargo has been a supporter of that program. >> and you deal with domestic violence counseling, and i mean, this is what we're talk about. this is a crucial needs, necessities that our community really, really needs that resource. >> people need to know they can come just for information, for help, for emergency services in domestic violence, for shelter. we have a safe house, all of that is available. and 55% of the clients that we serve, over 5,000 in a year, in that one program, they are latino population. >> what happens to these families? what happens to these kids and these seniors when -- if it wasn't for agencies like the wmca in our estimation? >> the problem is, they can't leave. if they were in a domestic violence situation, there's no place for them to two or get guidance. it's not that easy to leave a

situation, to find out what their rights are and things like that. we have a crisis department. they wouldn't know where to turn. we wouldn't be -- a sexual assault that's taken to the hospital 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. they would have no advocate standing alongside of you who worked for the yw in this whole area that stands with you for as long as it takes. if you just want it that night of the incident or all the way through the trial, we are there. we have bilingual staff available at all times and actually we have a majority of bilingual staff at the yw. >> you mentioned, we have a group of about a dozen girls who are here, through your program. >> this is the tech girl program. when people think of the yw, they think it's only women and girls that we serve. actually, they're probably a one single gender program. we try to work with girls to keep their interest in technology, in science, in math. architecture. all those different things in fun ways.

it's like a club. and this is their special day. they've been going strong since 7:30 this morning. i know the highlight today is definitely coming to the nbc studios. that's for sure. >> thank you very much. we're going to show your information. give us your final thoughts, if you will, on the ywca of silicon valley. >> if you're in need for counseling, we're talking of people who do not have health coverage and need to come somewhere where you can get that service, domestic violence, rape crisis, childcare, tech girls, youth services, where we do credit recovery. think of the yw. give us a call. if we can't help you, i can assure you we will get you to one of the other great non-profits that can. >> thank you so much. dr. carrie. there's the web address for the ywca of silicon valley. give them a call or log on to their website, find out how you can help or receive some help. thank you so much. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. up next on "comunidad del valle," housing trust also of santa clara county and wells far

low bank. stay with us.

the housing trust of santa clara county is teaming up with wells fargo bank. they're in our studio to help people stay in their homes and doing great work in the community. jessica garcia is with the housing trust. alex torres always brings a checkbook on behalf of wells fargo bank. did you bring it this time? >> unfortunately i didn't. >> tell us first about the housing trust. >> sure. the housing trust of santa clara county is a non-profit. we're community loan fund that makes loans to developers to build new housing, increase the stock of affordable housing in santa clara county as well as make loans to low-income and moderate income home buyers in the economy for first time home buyers trying to get into a home here. we help with grants and non-profits who want to prevent homelessness in the county. >> those grants -- go ahead. >> today what we wanted to focus on what we're doing in the community, foreclosure mitigation. we received a $25 million grant

from hud, the american recovery and reinvestment act. with these funds we're growing into 25 -- i'm sorry, 35 census tracks in san jose that have been most hardly hit by the foreclosure crisis and going in to purchase homes, rehabilitate homes and get low income home buyers into the homes. >> we did a story on one of your events in the mayfair area where alex took off his three-piece suit and actually put on jeans and sneakers and go out and clean homes and rebuild fences and fix windows and whatnot. this is part of the work wells fargo is into. >> that's absolutely correct. food seeing you again. thanks for having us on the show. what we did is partnered up with three different organizations. one of them housing trusts here with jessica and her team, rebuilding together. along with wells fargo. and what it is, it was -- the housing trust was part of a recipient of a $5 million grant. we were able to work with them and rewarded them $100,000 to

rehabilitate ten homes in the mayfair district. those ten homes are rehabilitated using the $100,000 to rehabilitate those homes to do insulation, painting, fixing up the yards. a lot of the folks were disabled or senior citizen type homes. we took out there, about maybe over 45 wells fargo team members on a saturday of their own time, own volition to go out there and work with the housing trust and rebuilding together to help rehabilitate the houses. >> we all know, mayfair has been critical of banks in the past. his statement to me was, it's nice to see the banks are turning the corner and now instead of hurting the market, they're helping the market. is that a misconception on our community or has the banking industry said, you know what, we need to start helping a little bit more? >> you know what, wells fargo has always been part of the community. i can only speak your wells fargo. it's always been one of the top philanthropy corporations in

america. so we've always been very involved in the community. we always care about community. we remain one of the large financial institutions headquartered in california. based on that, all of our decisions are made locally. when we partner up with whomever it is, the decisions are made here locally. we know what's going on in our communities and wells fargo wants to be a port of that community. >> alex is always walking with his checkbook in hand and helping non-profits in the south bay area. grants are crucial in the work you're doing. where would we be without these grants? >> wells fargo, in particular. this was a grant of $100,000 that allowed us to rehab ten homes in the district. wells fargo was already doing their own community building efforts in that neighborhood. we were already doing -- we closed 35 loans, 30 loans, actually, for our nsp program. this is all targeted income going into the mayfair neighborhood to improve the l

lives. >> the work you have been doing, as far as rehabbing the foreclosed home, putting them back on the market, these homes would add to blithe in the neighborhood, if you will. >> we can help with foreclosed homes and distressed property. if this is somebody late on their payments, not able to make their mortgage and want somebody to purchase the home through the short sale, we can help the buyer going into the home, help them with a $50,000 p.a.l. loan to get into the home. overall, yes, it's reducing blite, bringing up property values in the neighborhoods and overall we see it helping over 200 families in the next 3 years. >> i kid about you bringing the checkbook. in a way it's an investment wells fargo is making. you guys are a business. you have to make money. a way of making money is investing and the community is going to thank you in the long run. >> that's true, damian.

one of our sayings is we do well by doing good. weealize by being part of a community, not only do we have to invest back in the community, we're hoping the community will invest back within wells fargo. our philosophy has been, the more we give back, the more we get back. more importantly, we do it because it's the right thing to. we do well in the bay area. this one of the ways we do to give back to the community. in fact, we've done other projects in the mayfair community. one working with san jose state university, the city of san jose and comuniversity where we go in there and treat parents and children about financial literacy, how to better manage their money, handle credit, et cetera. at the end of the day, we need to have a more educated community. >> do you do home visits? any final thoughts, jessica, before we wrap up? >> we're very appreciative to wells fargo for their investment in santa clara county. we look forward to serving the

community. >> it's really good to hear some good words being spoken about the banking industry because it's been scarring, if you will, but during the scarring process i know i've seen you out there, you've still been out there and still been giving. >> thank you, david. it's opportunities like this and partnering up, wells fargo can't do it alone. wo we're in the business of banking. organizations like the housing trust, rebuilding together, the city of san jose, we partner with all these different entities. it's a rare combination of partnering up with profit and non-profit organizations to come together for the greater good of the community. we don't like to take all the ouwetld cn' we couldn't do it without partners such as the housing trust. >> the housing trust of santa clara county. and any information you want to give out, alex? we don't have wyour website. >> keep wells fargo in mind. we're always out there involved in the community. if you have a non-profit you'd like to submit a request for, go

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