"comunidad del valle." i'm damian trujillo. and today, summer camps--cultural summer camps for your children, plus the "t4 texas" show, on your "comunidad del valle." male announcer: nbc bay area presents "comunidad del valle" with damian trujillo. damian: we begin today with the mission asset fund. with me here on "comunidad del valle" today is a special guest, mohan kanungo. he's here to tell us all about the special program, basically financial services for immigrant families. welcome to the show. mohan kanungo: thank you. damian: tell us about your program and who you help. mohan: so, mission asset fund is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, and we provide zero interest loans that help people build credit, and we're excited to launch a new program with the mexican consulate of san jose where we're providing free financial education to anyone who comes to receive services at the mexican consulate. damian: we do have video of the mexican consulate, and i mean, we know the folks who attend--or kind

of seek the services there. talk about why that might be a good target audience for y'all. mohan: you know, the consulate's really a trusted space. it's where people go from the community to already receive services, but they know they can go there and ask questions. and right now, there's a lot of fear in the community with the threat of deportation or being detained, especially for immigrants, and san jose in particular has a large immigrant community as well as folks throughout santa clara and within the scope of the consulate. so, we wanted to provide services at a place where folks are gonna feel comfortable coming to ask questions. we want to be able to answer questions about what to do to keep their money safe. some folks are feeling like they need to close their checking account, for instance, in case a family member gets detained. they wanna make sure they have access to those funds. so, we've been able to help respond to some of those questions and provide resources. damian: so, what is the answer if they are fearful? you know, my significant other might not be here tomorrow, so what should i do? mohan: yeah, there's steps that you can take to actually

ensure that that trusted partner or loved on is able to access those funds. we wanna encourage folks to maintain an active checking account rather than keep that money at home. sometimes immigrants are targeted specifically because they're known to keep money, say, under the mattress, and so we wanna avoid our community being targeted. and instead, take some steps like adding somebody as a joint user to their checking account so that that person can actually get access to the funds in case of an emergency. damian: is it too early to tell, or are families doing that already, pulling--closing accounts and saying, "i'm done with the financial system"? mohan: it is happening, and it's unfortunate, and we're here to say that, one, there's steps you can take now. prepare, you know, for the worst, but expect the best. and so, these are things that we can talk about with, really, anyone in case of an emergency, to be prepared. but folks are taking those steps, and that's why it's really important that we're at the mexican consulate each day providing many platicas about different topics, whether it's credit or home ownership. but some of these immediately concerns about just how to keep

their money safe, we wanna be able to respond to. damian: so, we're talking about financial literacy here. is it also to help folks who don't have any financial history with banks or other institutions to get that started? mohan: absolutely, so what maf is able to do with folks that don't have any credit history, they're essentially invisible to the credit system. so, we're able to formalize this kind of social loan that's known as a lending circle. that activity gets reported to the credit bureaus and folks are able to establish your credit score. damian: i would imagine that if folks are undocumented, that's a good way to kind of prove that you've been here for a certain amount of time because you have a credit history dating back to a certain time. mohan: yeah, that's a great point. there's a lot of ways that folks, if they're undocumented and they wanna adjust their status, they wanna show good moral character, they wanna be able to demonstrate, you know, their integration into society, launching a business, and we wanna help people, you know, towards realizing those larger goals. again, a lot of folks right now have some more of these immediate concerns and needs, but we're here to help people

with those longer term goals like buying a home or starting a business as well. damian: all right, well, it's a great program. again, they're in collaboration now with the mexican consulate in san jose. there is their web address for more information and also a phone number. any final thoughts before we let you go? mohan: just wanna encourage folks to check out our financial emergency action plan for immigrants. it's available for free to download. you can take a look. it's available in both spanish and english. and again, we look forward to seeing you at the mexican consulate of san jose and san francisco. damian: good work. all right, thanks for your help. mohan: thank you. damian: all right, thank you very much. and up next here on "comunidad del valle," a summer cultural camp program, stay with us.

for your families. lilia aguero is with the school of arts and culture at the mexican heritage plaza in san jose, and jose chuy hernandez is a mariachi instructor at some of these summer camps. welcome to the show. lilia aguero: thank you. damian: and now, my kids have been through the camps and they love it, they adore it; fill us in. tell us about the enrichment that you're providing during the summertime for these kids. lilia: absolutely. we actually have two great opportunities

for children this summer. we have our visual and performing arts summer camps, which begin on june 26, and they'll run through july 21, and students have the opportunity to work with professional teaching artists to learn visual arts, printmaking, bookmaking, cartoneria, papier-mache, painting and acrylics, as well as musica de mariachi, vos, canto. chuy is our voice instructor. they also get to learn a little bit of guitar, ukulele we're gonna have this year, which will be new, and they also get a chance to do some acting. we're gonna have clowning, pantomime, as well as recorder for our beginning instrumentalists. damian: andele. play a quick tune for us. are you able to? [playing guitar chord] damian: that's beautiful. so, if i go to one of the summer camps and i wanna take one of these classes, how proficient will i be when i leave? jose chuy hernandez: definitely it's a beginners program.

however, the teachers that will be teaching at the summer camps, they have been teaching for a long, long, long time, and they're professionals, so they definitely understand that time, it's an issue. we only have 2 weeks per session, so you know, they print a program that has to be very, very, very, very effective. definitely parents will be excited with the end results. damian: because the kids get to perform, verdad, for the families? chuy: at the end of each--at the culmination of each camp, we have a recital, and of course everybody and their families are invited and they get to witness the end result, which, you know, a lot of times is beautiful. lilia: and then for chuy, sort of his speciality, 'cause this instrument, damian, this one's going to be taught in our mariachi conservatory summer camp. so, that program is going to be happening from july 24 through

august 6, and that's where they get to go in very deep with the instruments. they'll be there from 9:45 in the morning 'til 3 in the afternoon. damian: oh, they're serious. lilia: only working on music, so maestro chuy will certainly be there. we will be working also with a maestro from mexico, maestro mauricio ortega flores from the secretaria de cultura de guadalajara de jalisco, and i'm really excited because we piloted this last year with great success. damian: you know, i know--i remember when i broke ground on the mexican heritage plaza, and i think this is what they envisioned. what you're doing this summer i think is what they envisioned. talk about the pride that you have in continuing this tradition here in san jose. lilia: absolutely, i mean, that was a wonderful legacy, the mexican heritage corporation, the board. they, as you said, had that vision. councilmember alvarado certainly was a driving force there. and i think we are really continuing with that legacy. we are responding to the community. the community has expressed to us that they really want to

focus in on folklorico and musica, and specifically mariachi, because it is an enormous source of pride. so, we're taking that up and really making moves to focus on that. we'll still offer all other arts too, visual and performing arts, but now we're really going to refine our offerings by going in deep with music, especially mariachi. damian: now, when i dance, i have two left feet. so, when i play i would imagine i have two left arms tambien. is there any hope for someone like me if i take some of your classes? chuy: absolutely, i think that this is a perfect opportunity for you to explore what you think you're gonna wanna be a part of. we also have a couple of different, you know, experiences that you can, you know, play with a vihuela for a couple of days, and then you can move on to the guitarron for a couple of days. we call that the musical passport, which is designed precisely for that particular reason, so that you get a chance to explore and experience each instrument: violin, trumpet, vihuela,

guitara, guitarron, and of course canto, which is, you know, it's the instrument that you were born with, but as well, important to improve and to cultivate. so, i think that this is a perfect opportunity for your kids, if they have an interest into music, especially culture-based music, which is mariachi, for them to explore possibilities and get to also experience a community within the students, which is very, very important for their development. damian: and you should see the glowing faces on the children performing, and their parents who are watching the performance after those 2 weeks of the camp. there is the web address for more information. it's the school of arts and culture at the mexican heritage plaza in san jose. all summer long, they have different sessions running 2 weeks, and they're expanding a little bit more. so, any final thoughts, lilia, before we let you go? lilia: just wanna let everyone know, we also have financial aid available. we never turn away a child for lack of funds, so we really want them to come and experience it. damian: thank you so much. have fun!

lilia: muchas gracias. damian: and up next here on "comunidad del valle," the franklin-mckinley school district. stay with us.

from other potential dangers. with me on "comunidad del valle," from the franklin-mckinley school district is principal amber andrade with the college connection academy and cisco ramos avelar, jr. is a student also at the school. welcome to the show. amber andrade: thank you. damian: so, i mean, cyber bullying, right? that's the term that we use this day and age, and you recently had a seminar at your school. talk about what happened and why it was needed. amber: our district has quite a few programs they do for the district, district-wide, so that parents are aware of things that are going on online. when we were younger, bullying existed. it's not something new, but now with so much access to online platforms, it has become a very different age to bullying.~ damian: i think--cisco, do you think we, as parents, as older folks, see all of it,

or do we not see even half of it, you being a student there and you get to maybe witness it? cisco ramos avelar, jr.: i have a feeling that parents do notice it. i have--i believe that they don't notice everything because us, as children, we have realized that if we have passwords that our parents are not--don't know, they don't have access to what we do on snapchat or instagram to where we can bully someone without them noticing. damian: how prevalent is the problem, would you say, not only in the district, but maybe at other schools around the area? amber: it's definitely something that happens all the time. how we deal with it and how it's reported is something that we're constantly improving on. damian: is there something that was the impetus for the district to kind of look into this issue? tell us what happened. amber: definitely, with the new netflix series, "13 reasons why," we found that we had more referrals for students that were considering committing suicide,

so, as a district, we wanted to be as proactive as possible. so, we started interviewing students and sending out surveys to kids and parents to find out what are some things that are going on. with that series, it brought up a lot of mental health needs in our district. damian: i know that some students, cisco, might feel, "well, i can't bring it up, because then if i bring it up that i'm being bullied, i'm gonna be seen as a quote, unquote, chismoso, i'm a tattletale. so, i'll just keep it to myself and not tell anybody." do you see that happening? cisco: yes, i do, and i feel like we, as the students who know people who are trying to commit suicide, i feel like we shouldn't just keep it inside. i feel like we should go and express it to a teacher, or a counselor, or our principal, because it's a serious matter that needs to be dealt with. it's not a game that you can just say, "oh, okay, no one needs to know.

it's on them." damian: i don't know about snapchat. there's a lot of apps that i don't know about. you, as a principal, you have to kinda keep on top of all of these new apps that come up because--in order to know what your kids are up to. amber: yes, definitely. damian: how hard is that? amber: it is hard. i rely on the students, though, to teach me the new--the latest and newest app, and i really encourage parents to have the same conversations with their children. what are these programs? what do they do? what can happen? and keeping on, like cisco said, passwords and ids. damian: are you at the point in your career where you can kind of read the signs in kids and know what some of these symptoms are of them being bullied like that? amber: definitely, there are some warning signs. and as a district, we have a bullying app on our district web page that parents can report it if kids tell them at home, or students can report it. myself, i have a remind app on my phone that parents can message me directly and students can send me pictures

directly on my cell phone. so, that also helps keep the communication going. damian: yeah, now i know that at my kids' school, we had to bring police officers in to explain, from the cyber crimes unit, explain the consequences. do you think, cisco, that sometimes students don't realize that there might be a crime involved and that cyber bullying could lead to dangerous, if not deadly, consequences? cisco: yes, i do feel like we don't realize how serious this matter is, and we did have the police come about cyber bullying and talking to us about how, if we knew someone was going to commit suicide or has been bullied before, to bring it up and not hide it. because if we hide it, then the problem gets worse, and why should the problem get worse when we have parents, teachers, and principals? damian: absolutely, i consider your superintendent a friend. what does it say about juan cruz and his administration,

your administration, to be able to notice this and to tackle it before it has a chance to blossom into something that could be bad? what does it say about the proactiveness of leadership that we need in schools around the area? amber: definitely, our superintendent, juan cruz, is amazing. he really takes a proactive approach for us as a community, including parents. and we spent, you know, time teaching parents how to look through snapchat and how to we access all of these things. the proactive piece is very important, especially with the conversations that kids are having online that we, as adults, don't know are happening. we need to have a proactive approach and really a collaboration between the parents and the community. damian: yeah, before bullying was face-to-face, and now you don't even know it's happening 'cause it's in cyberspace. if you'd like more information, this is the franklin-mckinley school district. there is the district office number and the web address for more information. any final thoughts before we let you go, amber? amber: definitely, tips to parents.

have the conversation. what instagram, snapchat, what social media platforms are your kids on, and what does that look like? and if someone's contacting them, it's okay to have the conversation. damian: all right, thank you. good luck and good work. thank you very much. and up next here on "comunidad del valle," the "t4 texas" show. stay with us. [ inhales, exhales ] [ announcer ] cigarettes are not just dangerous when they're smoked.

[ rat squeaking ] they're dangerous long after. cigarette butts are toxic. they release chemicals that poison our water... and harm wildlife. and millions... are polluting our environment. [ sniffing ] [ seagulls squawking ] other show on kkup weekdays. here with me on "comunidad del valle" is raymundo talavera, who is a guest of that show and your soulbroso show on early friday mornings, verdad? raymundo talavera: it is the "friday soulbroso show." damian: so, that's early enough. it reminds me when i used to get up and pick cucumbers, because that's way early, brother. raymundo: you're my audience. raymundo: actually i don't--actually, you're not my audience, but if i can get you all to listen, that'd be so cool. damian: that's great. well, welcome to the show. i've been trying to have you on for awhile. listen to the show. there you are in the radio booth there at kkup.

talk about--you have to love what you do, because you get paid a lot of money for being on the kkup. raymundo: actually, it's zero, but i'm going for-- damian: a raise? raymundo: i'm gonna double that. raymundo: i will be doubling that. damian: talk about your love for the microphone. and it goes beyond the microphone. it's your love for the culture and your love for the music. raymundo: i started at kkup right after, i guess, about 25 years ago. you've been here about 20 years, so we're veterans now. i started off at kkup, 91.5 fm. i started off playing, like the rest of the latin department, i started playing oldies, and a little mix of this, little chicano music, and all that other stuff. and i can't remember the artist, but one day i did a tribute to a particular artist, and it was tejano, and i played all tejano songs, and i started getting all these phone calls.

and it was very, very cool, and i just realized that--and they were telling me, you know, "we don't hear tejano music out here anymore. so, i just said, "well, maybe i should try that." and so, i started picking it up and introducing it more and more into my show until it went total tejano. and then i decided, when i got my own show, i came up with the name "t4 texas." "t4 texas" could be talavera for texas, together for texas, texas for texas. i just had all these ideas and it just like [snapping] that was the word. damian: that was awesome. what upsets me is that it's not on every saturday, right? your "t4 texas" show is on sporadically during the month. raymundo: right, unless we have a marathon. when we have our marathons, it's one weekend. each department does a marathon doing their own music. we have a blues marathon, a jazz marathon, we have our reggae marathon. we have all these marathons, which is our fundraising, because we are simply listener-sponsored.

we don't get government monies. we don't get corporate grants. so, it's our opportunity to go to the audience and for them to make a pledge, make a donation to the radio station. and gosh, i forgot the original question. damian: no, but i mean, every saturday, i'm there. i wanna listen to you every saturday. raymundo: there's where we were going. yeah, unless there's a marathon, i'm on every 3rd saturday afternoon from 12 o'clock 'til 3 o'clock in the afternoon. damian: and it's some of the--i'll tell you, it's some of the great tejano music. now, i think half of del rio, texas and all of eagle pass, texas is here in the bay area. raymundo: oh, they're everywhere. damian: i'm not tejano. i'm not from texas. i'm chicano from california, but what is it about--i love tejano. what is it about the music? raymundo: well, you can't help it. damian: no, you can't. raymundo: you know, it's the rhythms, it's the instruments, it's the soul of the music, the words from the songs. it's just--it's in a package that just, you know, gets to your soul.

my brother comes over and says, "every time i come over to your house and i hear the music, i wanna have a beer." [both laughing] damian: now, i mean, because a lot of the tejano music is--they're jose alfredo jimenez songs, they're javier solis songs. they're slow ballads that rip your heart open. but tejano music, it adds--it's upbeat. it adds the dancing movidas. talk about maybe, yeah, the blend that they created between the old boleros to chanclas that we now throw with. raymundo: well, you know, you go back to the days of when it began, infante, gosh, all these names are going away from me right now, lola beltran and all those songs, and those were the roots of the music. and of course, you know how the europeans brought all the instruments, and the accordions, and all that other stuff,

and the polkas, and the music just kinda worked its way together, you know? and it just came across the border. the americans, the tejanos, you know, brought their flavor of what they were doing, you know, and just packaged it all together. damian: and your friend and mine, little joe, added the horns. and i mean, he gives credit to a lot of other people. raymundo: and you know, they called that chicano music back in the day. damian: right, i remember. raymundo: you know? damian: i remember, and i asked little joe about that once, because you know, you grow up watching johnny canales and he called it chicano music. and he says, "well, that's 'cause we're all chicanos, right? we just added a little blend to the music." raymundo: then it comes to an onda, a musica onda. and they've got different names for what they wanna call it from different regions or what their feelings are, you know? damian: now, when i used to do the radio show, "radio aztlan," it was on only on fridays, but on mondays, i would start counting the days. "all right, it's almost friday." i loved doing that show. talk about your passion. raymundo: yes, yes. i'm very proud of the fact that kkup has taken a chance

on this music. we are the only terrestrial radio station in the bay area, san jose, san francisco that has a tejano show. they used to have 'em, but you know, money, money, money, money. damian: yeah, no, 'cause, i mean, you have to drive to salinas on saturdays to listen to radio biligue. they have their shows, but here in the area, you're it, man. raymundo: yeah, we go from salinas, monterey, carmel, all the way up into redwood city, and then into union city. we've got a great broadcast, and i do listen--i do look forward to my next show. damian: i bet. i wouldn't doubt it if people maybe plan their tardeadas or barbeques around your shows. raymundo: i get that a lot. i do get that a lot. and i either get phone calls, i get the dedications, requests, and they tell me, "we're having a barbeque, and yeah, yeah, your show is on the air," they're telling me. damian: and my son has a 9:30 a.m. baseball game. it's perfect, 'cause by 11:30 we're done, and at 12 o'clock we're hitting your tunes.

it's the "t4 texas" show. it's on kkup the 3rd saturday of every month. he also does a "friday soulbroso" show, my buddy raymundo talavera. there is the number to call for more information. 91.5 fm, kkup. any final thoughts before we let you go? raymundo: i just wanna say a real quick shout out. we've got the greatest latin department. we got salsa, we got tejano, we've got chicano oldies every saturday from 9 o'clock until 3 o'clock. every saturday, very cool broadcast. there's deejays out there, and if anybody gets a chance, please listen to kkup, 91.5, kkup.org. damian: listener funded. raymundo: yes sir. damian: thank you, brother. raymundo: thank you very much. so much fun. damian: gracias, thank you for being here finally. and now, here's what's happening in your comunidad on "que pasa." ♪

♪ damian: and our saludos for those celebrating a special day. felicidades. ♪ damian: and here is our contact information. you can follow me on twitter. my handle is @newsdamian. also, pick up a copy of "el observador" newspaper and support your bilingual weeklies all across the bay area. we thank you once again for sharing a part of your sunday with us right here on "comunidad del valle." remember, every saturday, kkup, 91.5 fm, the latino show with my friend raymundo talavera. thank you so much for watching. we'll see you again here next week. ♪

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