Informes

Tuesday April 8th 2025

In this Informes:

• MNC Mission Bay Campus Toddler Field Trip
• MNC Leaders Visit Best Practice, Life Moves
• Family Engagement Workshop: Cake Decorating
• Honoring Cesar Chavez at Glen Park
• Manager Training for Our Leaders

Lead Preschool Teacher Ricardo Ochoa and the MNC Mission Bay team lead 14 preschool children and four toddlers on their first fieldtrip!

Field trips are a great way to bring the children outside and let them play, explore and be themselves

Teachers Adriana Lepe, Doris Avila, Dante Johnson, and Rosa Canchola take the children to Mission Bay Creek

MNC Mission Bay Campus’s toddler classroom went on their first field trip! They joined our preschool class at Mission Bay Creek as part of our Connecting Children to Nature exploration. On field trips, our teachers find new ways to bring classroom activities outside. They help kids develop well-rounded perspectives, promote creativity and responsibility, and give them opportunities to play, imagine, and be themselves.

Story by:

Vivian Lopez

Campus Supervisor

vivian.lopez@mncsf.org Tel: 415-856-0650

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Thank you, Aubrey Merriman and the Life Moves team, for the inspiring tour of your facilities

We spoke to many team members on their work with rapid housing, operations, human resources and facilities management

MNC learns about the Life Moves program model, their philosophy and the passionate team's goal to help people

The Life Moves Navigation Center helps clients with temporary housing and life skills like interviewing and resume building

The Haven Family House is a wonderful temporary housing location

Visit to one of the best Home Stabilizing public benefit corporations in the nation. MNC team members Richard Ybarra, Aurora Alvarado, Beiling Gonzalez, Guadalupe Carballo and Natasha Zee visited our Santa Clara County and fellow Tipping Point grantee friends in homelessness prevention and housing, Life Moves. Life Moves CEO Aubrey Merriman’s tour included the Admin facility in Santa Clara where we spoke to team members on their work with rapid housing, operations, human resources and facilities management. The Life Moves staff were passionate and shared success stories on overcoming personal struggles with homelessness which made their work even more inspiring.

We toured their Navigation Center which helps clients with temporary housing and life skills like interviewing and resume building. Places that give them stability and a place to call home while job hunting. One client, Chance, expressed gratitude to Life Moves for their guidance and help. We visited Haven Family House, another temporary housing location.

Thank you, Aubrey Merriman, Maria Nava, and Life Moves team! MNC is grateful to visit these stunning locations and brainstorm ideas to improve our own MNC Homelessness Prevention work. Your idea to build quality shelters that can become permanent housing, is one solution that should be heeded.

Story by:

Natasha Zee

Executive Assistant

For questions contact Guadalupe Carballo, Associate Director guadalupe.carballo@mncsf.org Tel : 415-206-7752 ext. 2030

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Family Engagement Workshop: Cake Decorating

Parents and children bond during the family engagement workshops

MNC Valencia Campus held another successful family engagement workshop. The activity for this workshop was cake decorating. Each Family member received their own cake to decorate with icing and sprinkles. Parents enjoyed working with their children while expressing creativity with icing. Families had fun while children working their fine motor skills and squeezing colorful icing onto their individual cakes. We look forward to our family engagement activities each month.

Story by:

Tina Samuel

Campus Supervisor

christina.samuel@mncsf.org Tel: 415-552-0169

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Honoring Cesar Chavez at Glen Park

Over 70 people gather to celebrate Cesar Chavez’s 98th birthday, legacy and impact at the Glen Park Recreation Center

Attendees asked Richard questions about working with Cesar Chavez and shared their own stories

The photo wall featuring the Delano street sign and flyers was a wonderful addition to the event

Thank you, Nicky Trasvina and Marie Jobling for hosting this great event

MNC Board Member Tony Fazio shared welcoming remarks

Richard Ybarra tells the story of his favorite picture featuring him and Cesar Chavez

Nicky Trasvina and Marie Jobling hosted a celebration with over 70 people to honor Cesar Chavez’s birthday, legacy and impact at the Glen Park Recreation Center. At the start everyone sang Happy Birthday to Cesar as it would have been his 98th birthday this year.

MNC CEO Richard Ybarra spoke about his experience as Cesar Chavez’s manager and personal assistant. Richard shared stories and memories of his time by Cesar’s side learning about serving people and building his skills as a leader to help others find their voice in times of adversity. MNC Board Member Tony Fazio also shared welcoming remarks. In attendance were many people who had met and supported Cesar. Many shared stories and memories of Cesar and the work they did for the farmworker’s movement.

Thank you, Nicky Trasvina and Marie Jobling, for inviting Richard and hosting a wonderful event to honor a friend, mentor, and leader to many who still continue his work legacy.

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Manager Training for Our Leaders

Erica Divinagracia and Trewen Wong facilitate training for the Early Care and Education team

Manager training keeps everyone up to date on policies and new procedures at MNC

Paula Ayala and the Human Resources team go over a variety of topics like navigating difficult conversations and the MNC policies & protocols refreshers

Thank you to MNC managers and leaders for taking part in the training

MNC’s Human Resource Department hosted two training sessions facilitated by our Senior HR Generalist, Erica Divinagracia—one with our Early Care and Education group on March 12, 2025, and another for our programs and executive team on March 20, 2025. During these sessions, our leaders gained valuable insights on the following topics: Core Competencies, MNC Policies & Protocols Refresher, Leave & Benefits, ClearCo Recruiting, Ergonomics & Risk Management, and Navigating Difficult Conversations.

Thank you to the HR Team—Paula Ayala, Erica Divinagracia, and Trewen Wong—for conducting this informative training!

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