Moments later, explains Morris Performing Arts Center the cruiser art center investigates hits a concrete wall with a loud crunch. "The officer's vehicle struck the suspect," Gonzalez said. The officer then got out of the car and walked to the passenger side, where the suspect lay on the ground near the front of the car, Gonzalez said. In the video, the officer leans toward the suspect and asks: "Buddy Hey You OK? Yes or no?" The reply is inaudible. A few seconds later, the officer turns to the videographer and says: "Get that outta here, dude. "The officer tells the cameraman to leave several more times before he grabs the camera and shoves it down. He then asks to see the video. The cameraman later gave a copy of the tape to police, Gonzalez said. Guzman was treated at a hospital for minor injuries and released into police custody. Santa Ana police officials have opened an investigation into whether the officer intentionally struck the suspect and, if so, whether the action was an appropriate use of force, Gonzalez said. Guzman appeared to be intoxicated when he accosted the three men near 17th and Main streets in Santa Ana, police said. He took a full can of beer from his pocket and struck one man in the head before drawing a knife and threatening two others. He bragged that he had a gun before fleeing on foot, Gonzalez said. One of the alleged victims called 911 and followed Guzman into the parking lot, pointing the officer in Guzman's direction seconds before the crash. The attack "appeared to be a random act," Gonzalez said. Police recovered a knife and booked Guzman on assault with a deadly weapon. --sara. lin. When Terry Badillo's teenage daughter Denise became pregnant, she didn't know what to do.

Badillo's husband had health insurance through his job, but it didn't cover Denise, then 17. The Monterey Park homemaker, who made call after fruitless call for help, remembers that uncertainty a couple of years ago as "a terrible time. "Badillo eventually learned about Maternal and Child Health Access, a Los Angeles nonprofit agency morris performing arts center seating chart . There, healthcare outreach workers helped her fill out the complicated forms to enroll her daughter in Medi-Cal arts education . And when Denise started having unexplained seizures six months after giving birth, Badillo was more grateful than ever that her medical expenses were covered. "We probably would have lost our house if we didn't have the care that we had," she said. But the budget signed by the governor last month wipes out $10 million allotted to Los Angeles County this fiscal year for outreach efforts to help low-income families register their children for medical insurance Morris Performing Arts Center . The fate of another $10 million for the next fiscal year remains uncertain arts pac . The three-year program was initially projected to funnel about $70 million to 20 high-need counties, with about one-third going to Los Angeles. These small-scale efforts were expected to help enroll 25,000 L. A arts theatre . County children and teenagers in government healthcare programs each year. Of the 2 million uninsured people in the county, an estimated 200,000 are children, said Suzanne Bostwick, acting director of the Children's Health Outreach Initiative, part of the county Department of Public Health. More than 30 community agencies and government bodies, including the Los Angeles Unified School District, employ local health advocates throughout the county. These workers, often bilingual or located in clients' neighborhoods, travel door to door or work in storefront offices to help people navigate the healthcare bureaucracy.

More than 200 of them, many of whom were Medi-Cal recipients themselves, are at risk of losing their jobs. "Health reform is just more than" having an insurance card, said Lynn Kersey, executive director of Maternal and Child Health Access, who said local groups were blindsided by the governor's veto morris center performing arts . Without the state money, "people won't get the help they need. "Part of a $700-million budget reduction, Gov arts venue Morris Performing Arts Center - morriscenter . Arnold Schwarzenegger's veto leaves $147 million statewide to streamline enrollment and keep children in healthcare programs, said H Morris Performing Arts Center - morriscenter . D Palmer, spokesman for the state Department of Finance broward performing art center . More money for the Healthy Families program is expected to help enroll 64,000 additional children across the state, Palmer said. "It was a tough budget year," said Mike Bowman, spokesman for the state Department of Health Care Services "The governor has to make some pretty tough decisions This has nothing to do with a lack of commitment broward performing arts center. Morris Performing Arts Center tickets The state remains committed to enrolling all uninsured children," Bowman said. County health officials worked for nearly a year to establish the program and, between April and June, the effort signed up close to 6,000 children for health insurance, Bostwick said. "All of a sudden, we had the rug pulled out from under us," Bostwick added . Now the county owes local contractors $2. 2 million in operating expenses the state won't cover. The governor's veto "just undermines the infrastructure that would have supported his healthcare reform," said Olga Duran, director of the Valley Community Clinic, which provides health outreach services. Budget cuts also included programs to help seniors and the mentally ill. This week, Schwarzenegger announced plans for a special legislative session devoted to healthcare reform. After getting the runaround from government agencies for a year, sexual assault counselor Aggy Barbero remembers how outreach workers helped her get insurance for her baby boy, Ari. "It was like an angel coming to my rescue," said Barbero, 36.

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