The county’s education service district used a grant to hire a home visiting coordinator to bring together any agency that visits clients in their homes, from the county’s health department to the state Department of Human Resources, with the idea of reining in the splintered efforts to relieve child poverty through making those that work within the agencies aware of the what the other can provide needy families.

Ontario artist and city councilor Eddie Melendrez believes art can spark social change and create conversations about inequalities. Melendrez was recently selected as one of four artists to receive the Fields Artist Fellowship.