May is Mental Illness Awareness month. Please join Maria as she visits with Duane Bentzen. Duane is the former President of the Ventura County affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), for the past three years and a member of the NAMI Board of Directors for four years.
Duane shares about the national organization, the local organization and his own personal story about his son who was diagnosed with Paranoid Schizophrenia in 2002. It’s a story about fighting for treatment and in light of the weekend events in Isla Vista, it is a timely story of how mental illness and that fight for treatment is a critical piece in the quest to answer some unanswerable questions.
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In the truest sense of giving, please join Maria as she visits with the Director of Marketing & Communications for the California Community Foundation, Valarie De La Garza about their 24 hour campaign that begins tonight at 
Reinventing, retraining, attaining a dream is achievable for all of us. Please join Maria on a special 2-part podcast about folks doing exactly that! The Phoenix Scholarships are awarded by the Ventura College Foundation and it is helping to change people’s lives. Executive Director, Norbert Tan and Scott, one of this year’s recipients share how VCF and their scholarships are assisting folks to reach their dreams. 
100 Million sharks are killed every year through the barbaric process of shark finning. That is the slicing off of a shark’s fins and throwing the live shark back into the ocean in order to supply the demand for shark fin soup.
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