San Diego, CA
Father Joe's & UC San Diego students work together to help improve communication with the homeless
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – Father Joe’s Villages and six students from UC San Diego are teaming up to help those who are living on our streets get better connected to resources.
“I’d actually volunteered for Father Joe’s villages in the past,” Tessa Chan, one of the students, said.”So, when I saw the name, I got pretty excited and wanted to work with them further.”
Chan, a junior at UC San Diego, isn’t volunteering at Father Joe’s Villages, but rather working with the non-profit through the university’s Innovating for X program (i4X).
“So, what we’re aiming to fix is communication breakdown between people who are unsheltered on the streets and their outreach workers or their street health staff that provide medical care,” Josh Bohannan, Chief Strategy Officer for Father Joe’s Villages, said.
Bohannan told ABC 10News the non-profit teamed with UC San Diego to work with students to create an online portal to help with better and continued connection to case workers, medical needs, and other resources.
“One of the biggest challenges we have is people have cell phones, but they lose their number because their phone breaks, it’s stolen, it might be taken in an encampment sweep,” Bohannan said. “So, that connection and that relationship that they’ve built with their provider, there’s a breakdown,” said.
The portal allows for continued communication for anyone looking for services with Father Joe’s.
“Each person will have their own unique code, and sign up with the outreach worker, and so each will have their own unique ID where they can log in from any device that has access to the internet,” Bohannan said. “What this platform has is not just texting and communication with your outreach workers, but it also would allow for a GPS drop.”
Bohannan said that can be anywhere from the library to a new phone or someone else’s. He told ABC 10News the portal is in the beta stages and the kinks will be worked out by the UC San Diego team over the summer.
So, they hope to have the portal online soon and help those in need.
“So I think that having a consolidated resource would really kind of serve to benefit a lot of people,” Chan said.
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Shane van Gisbergen earned his sixth career pole and second of the 2026 season on Saturday, rocketing to pole position around NASCAR’s all-new 3.4-mile street course at Naval Base Coronado. He even touched the wall twice on his fast lap, pushing to the absolute limit.
“A little bit (surprised),” said Van Gisbergen, who went out with the first group of qualifiers. “I thought the track would be better, and I thought people would execute a bit better. As I said, it’s just so difficult. There’s three or four corners you’re seeing for the first time of the day, and it’s on your heater. Amazing. The Red Bull Chevy is really good. Thank you to Trackhouse for doing a great job from yesterday, and we just need to get the driver a bit better,” he concluded with a smile.”
Watch: SVG surprised to win Busch Light Pole at San Diego
Van Gisbergen bested Carson Hocevar by 0.0156s with a fast lap of 2:14.788s. Ryan Blaney will start third, Zane Smith fourth, and Todd Gilliland fifth. Blaney was a little bit quicker than SVG for most of his lap, but lost it through the final set of corners.
Daniel Suarez, Ryan Preece, Connor Zilisch, Michael McDowell, and Austin Hill will out the remainder of the top ten on the starting grid.
Project 91 driver Kevin Magnussen qualified 21st for his NASCAR Cup debut. Notably, championship leader Tyler Reddick spun out, but still reached 17th on the grid. Denny Hamlin is just 19 points behind him, and will start 26th.
Watch: Reddick loops it in Turn 2 during qualifying
Some other notable drivers very deep in the field include William Byron in 27th, Chase Elliott 30th, and an injured Christopher Bell 37th. He will have Brent Crews on standby, and may finish the race for Bell on Sunday.
Jimmie Johnson was the first driver to set a time, and showed just how tricky things were as he had to use the runoff area in Turn 2 to avoid an incident. Erik Jones also smacked the wall at the exit of Turn 16, but there were no red flags during the session.
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Neymar expected to return from right calf injury and play for Brazil in World Cup against Scotland
Neymar is expected to return from a right calf injury and play for Brazil in its final World Cup group match, coach Carlo Ancelotti said Friday night.
Neymar missed Brazil’s first two games of the tournament, including Friday’s 3-0 win over Haiti.
Ancelotti said Neymar would go through individual training on Saturday, train with the team on Monday and “will be available” for Brazil when it closes Group C play against Scotland on Wednesday in Miami Gardens, Florida.
Neymar is Brazil’s career scoring leader with 79 goals in 129 international appearances.
The 34-year-old midfielder has yet to practice in full sessions with the team since reporting to Brazil’s squad while nursing the calf injury.
Looking to play in his fourth World Cup, Neymar had tests on his calf last Monday to determine the progress of the injury that he sustained while playing for Brazilian club Santos on May 17.
There was widespread debate in Brazil over whether Neymar, whose first World Cup was on home soil in 2014, should have been called up for the tournament. He has struggled since returning from tearing the ACL in his left knee in October 2023 in a World Cup qualifier.
Neymar has four goals and two assists in eight matches for Santos this year.
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