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IU Health grants $1 million to Indiana Latino Institute, expands community outreach
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Indiana College Well being is stepping as much as the plate to diversify its employees by a a million greenback donation to a Latino group.
“We wish individuals on the desk making selections that signify the neighborhood, so we’re in pursuit of a workforce that appears just like the sufferers that we serve,” the president of IU Well being West Central Area, Artwork Vasquez, mentioned.
It’s an achievement of two teams searching for to enhance entry to healthcare for Latinos by increased training.
On Thursday, IU Well being gave a $1 million examine to the nonprofit group Indiana Latino Institute.
The cash will probably be used to broaden their training companies for Latino college students throughout Indiana.
“There are a lot of indicators that show that there’s healthcare inequities as a result of there’s inequities in employment and that’s what we’re right here to help,” Vasquez mentioned.
“We will eradicate poverty by empowering a neighborhood by training and educated people make higher selections even about their well being, points, and priorities,” the president and CEO of the Indiana Latino Institute, Marlene Dotson, mentioned.
The Indiana Latino Institute will work to offer extra internship opportunites at IU Well being that features medication, human sources, and engineering.
It’s an extension of the workforce growth program that focuses on offering internship and scholarship alternatives.
“It’s actually a full companies chief growth workforce pipeline and we’re actually privileged to faucet into that,” Vasquez mentioned.
“Proper now, Latinos from Ok-12 we’re the most important minority within the state, so now we have right here people, so now we have to do it present the sources to retain, put together, and retain the expertise right here,” Dotson.
Dotson additionally says there aren’t sufficient training sources for Latino college students exterior of Marion County.
“Assets are scattered. They don’t have all of the sources that we see right here in Central, so why not open the chance constructing the partnerships throughout the state and in addition streaming the present ones that now we have and we’ll attain out to these college students,” Dotson mentioned.
The Indiana Latino Institute additionally hosts a number of conferences and workshops yearly that target serving to all college students get the training they deserve.
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To strengthen cybersecurity, local governments need to get over their skepticism, Indiana CIO says | StateScoop
Indiana Chief Information Officer Tracy Barnes said local government leaders express a wide range of emotions when it comes to cybersecurity initiatives: excitement, mundane interest, suspicion, but mostly — skepticism.
“They’re skeptical, they’re excited, they’re paranoid, but they’re interested in cybersecurity training initiatives, Barnes told StateScoop this month at the National Association of State Chief Information Officers midyear conference in National Harbor, Maryland. “But as they started to see more and more folks adopting get on board, and some of the skeptics start to kind of turn and open their minds a bit more, and they also start to see more of that push from the legislative body as well.”
Barnes said strengthening cybersecurity in local government loses momentum when local leaders push back for fear of a surveillance state. But when he encounters resistance, Barnes said, he reminds the skeptics that Indiana’s technology department is there to provide support.
“We have no desire to police and manage and maintain footprints across the entire scope of local governments in Indiana,” Barnes said. “But we do have the ability for the size, the engagement, the relationships with vendors, and such, to bring good products at a table reading, and good resources that they can take advantage of.”
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — It was not the smoothest debut for Caitlin Clark on Tuesday night. She set the record for most amount of turnovers in a WNBA debut with 10. But, she did finish with 20 points and knocked down four threes, which was also a record.
She joined Maya Moore and Edna Campbell as the only players in WNBA history to score 20 points and make four three pointers in their debut.
Now, she returns to Indianapolis for her regular season home debut on Thursday, when the Fever play the New York Liberty.
“I guess I’m just excited for Thursday to get back home and have our home opener,” Clark said after the game on Tuesday.
The home crowd should be packed on Thursday night with Fever fans. Their preseason game against the Atlanta Dream set a Fever attendance record for a preseason game, with 13,028 fans in the building. The Fever averaged just over 4,000 fans per game last season.
“Any time you can have a home opener and have the support that we’ve had, our preseason game was tremendous and now we get to for real,” Clark said. “I think it’s going to be a lot of fun. It’s going to be loud. We’re going to need to use the environment to our advantage and I think just learn and move on and get ready to play. Embrace it and enjoy it because it is special, too.”
While it was not the ideal regular season debut, Clark did play better in the fourth quarter. She scored eight points and knocked down two three-pointers.
It was a rough first game for the team as a whole as well. They turned the ball over 25 times and allowed the Sun to shoot over 42% from three-point range. All-Star and 2023 Rookie of the Year Aliyah Boston was shut down as well, scoring just four points on 2-6 shooting.
The Fever home opener on Thursday will be against the New York Liberty, who lost in the WNBA Finals last year. They also have the reigning WNBA MVP, Breanna Stewart.
The game will tip off at 7 p.m.
Stay updated with WISH-TV‘s live coverage from Gainbridge Fieldhouse starting at 5 p.m.
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10-Year-Old Boy Dies By Suicide After 'Horrific Bullying' At School, Parents Say They Raised Alarm 20 Times – News18
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The school district’s superintendent denied any bullying reports had ever been submitted by either the parents or boy. (@CollinRugg/X)
Sammy Teusch, a fourth-grader at Greenfield Intermediate School, was bullied right up until the night he died by suicide on May 5
A 10-year-old boy in the US state of Indiana killed himself after being subjected to “horrific bullying” at school, according to his family, who said they raised the alarm at least 20 times in the last year.
Sammy Teusch, a fourth-grader at middle school in the Midwestern state, was bullied right up until the night he died by suicide on May 5, according to his parents Sam and Nichole. “I held him in my arms,” his dad, Sam Teusch, was quoted as saying by The New York Post. “I did the thing no father should ever have to do, and any time I close my eyes, it’s all I can see.”
NEW: 10-year-old boy takes his own life after getting constantly bullied at school for his glasses and teeth.Heartbreaking.
Sammy Teusch of Greenfield, Indiana was bullied up until the night he took his own life according to his family.
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— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 15, 2024
Sammy’s parents said they complained to the school nearly 20 times about the bullying that started last year when he was in elementary school. “They were making fun of him for his glasses in the beginning, then on to make fun of his teeth. It went on for a long time,” his dad said. “He was beat up on the school bus, and the kids broke his glasses and everything,” he said. “I called the school, and I’m like, ‘What are you doing about this? It keeps getting worse, and worse, and worse,’” the dad claimed.
Despite claims of relentless bullying, the school district’s superintendent denied any such reports had ever been submitted. However, the district authorities did acknowledge that the school’s administrators and counselor had regular talks with the family throughout the year. Sammy’s family asserted that their fears had been made clear. “They knew this was going on. They knew this was going on,” the dad said.
Sammy’s grandma was livid at the district claiming it has a zero-tolerance policy on bullying. ”That they can’t just say they have zero tolerance because that doesn’t mean there is zero tolerance about bullies, their zero tolerance means that they don’t have responsibility for it,” Cynthia Teusch told a local state outlet.
“People trust their kids to the school, but now that trust is breaking down.” The boy’s mom claimed her son took her life because of the constant bullying. According to the mom, the boy mentioned an unspecified incident in a bathroom last week which left him too afraid to go to school. “He was my little boy. He was my baby. He was the youngest one,” she was quoted as saying by The Post.
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