Kem Saunders, Guillermo Valdez, The Black List Project and the Skid Row 3on3 Streetball League

Having "issues" with your kids?  Need to experience the Black List Project or a little 3on3 Streetball down on Skid Row?  Tune in to 710 ESPN Radio as LaFern Cusack speaks with some of the most influential men making history next on the Southern California Experience!

Sunday, February 28, 2010 -5am-6am (PST)
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Kem Saunders and Guillermo Valdez II speaks with LaFern about how men can deal with a stressful family environment and how young adults and parents can create a open communication without the emotional tension.

Five Acres is dedicated to enabling families raise children to become caring and productive adults by building on their strengths and those of their families and communities. Five Acres works to prevent child abuse and neglect, care for, treat and educate emotionally disturbed, abused and neglected children and their families in residential and outreach programs, advance the welfare of children and families by research, advocacy and collaboration, and strive for the highest standards of excellence by professionals and volunteers. http://www.5acres.org/

Kem Saunders M.Ed., MFTI (Masters of Education:Community Counseling, Kent State University, Marriage and Family Therapist Intern, State of California:  Present Employer: Five Acres Residential and Outpatient Services, Pasadena CA.  Services provided: Clinical and Social Work Support services for Foster Care children, Foster parents and Biological parents. Typical referrals are from the Department of Mental Health and the Department of Children and Family services.

Guillermo Valdez II, MA, MFTI, PPSC.  Education: BA in psychology from Indiana University, MA in Counseling psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute (emphasis in Depth Psychology), and a PPSC Pupil Personnel Services Credential in Counseling.  He has worked with at-risk youth, foster youth, at advantage youth, and their parents/ guardians for 12 years.

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders: The Paley Center for Media Celebrates Black History Month Paley Center will preview HBO's The Black List: Volume Three. Photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and critic Elvis Mitchell continue their exploration of what it means to be African-American today with the third volume of their acclaimed series The Black List Project which features interviews with John Legend, Whoopi Goldberg, Lee Daniels, Debra Lee, and Beverly Johnson. After the screenings, which also include highlights of the previous two programs, panelists including Greenfield-Sanders and Mitchell will discuss this ambitious and illuminating project, which encompasses the documentaries for HBO, a book, and a gallery exhibition of photographs. Both Paley Center locations will also host a photography exhibit of The Black List Project portraits by Greenfield-Sanders. This is the first time any of these photographs have been seen in LA and the first time the Volume Three photos have been seen in New York. These selected portraits include among others Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Suzanne dePasse, and Chris Rock in LA, and Hill Harper, John Legend, and Lee Daniels in New York. http://paleycenter.org/the-black-list-project

Skid Row 3on3 Streetball League
General Jeff" Page- Team Owner/ Player/ Consultant
Manuel "O.G. Man" Compito- League Commissioner
Gerrie "Crushow" Herring- President/ Player
Gregory "G-Man" Goodin- Player
"General Jeff" Page, spearheads his own Skid Row advocacy organization called Issues and Solutions. He lobbied for a new court to replace the undulating, cracked concrete surface the league had been using, working the city system in scores of e-mails. Eventually, he helped work a partnership with the Department of Recreation and Parks and the LA84 Foundation, which uses leftover funds from the 1984 Olympics to pay for athletic programs throughout the city. The foundation had its own partnership with Nike, which donated a new court surface fashioned from the rubber of recycled shoes.
Skid Row 3on3 Streetball Video


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Kevin Malone's Redemption: Passionate, courageous and changing the world.

Kevin Malone sat down with me today and shared how he is living his life to help others.  "It's an exciting journey. Maybe you don't think you can help but there are so many ways you can do so."  Kevin speaking about his upcoming mission to Haiti.

Malone has been on the Board of Directors for seven years for SCORE International which plans, organizes, and leads hundreds of short-term mission trips every year. Kevin Malone, talks about his efforts to bring dire needed supplies to earthquake stricken Haiti.
SUNDAY, JANAURY 24, 2010
710 ESPN Radio
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with LaFern Cusack
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About SCORE International
In 1985, Ron Bishop resigned as the basketball coach at Tennessee Temple University to start a sports missions ministry. Taking a basketball team to Mexico, this unusual ministry had a national impact. Since then, thousands of athletes have traveled with SCORE to 20 countries and have preached the Gospel to thousands of spectators at halftime. In addition, millions of others have heard the message through television and radio coverage.

SCORE has now expanded and is taking church youth groups, senior class trips, educators, choirs, medical teams and construction teams all in an effort to mass evangelize, expose people to missions and edify the local church. SCORE has established orphanages in Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic. A medical facility in the Dominican Republic has been built and will serve local pastors and missionaries, as well as the poor who cannot afford medical care.

In the Dominican Republic, SCORE is partnering with the Rawlings Foundation to build and operate a Baseball Academy, Camp, and Bible College. The Rawlings Foundation will build and own a world-class facility that SCORE will help operate and share in the ministry.
Currently, SCORE owns facilities in the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica. It also does extensive ministry in Argentina. The ministry has plans to expand to other South American countries as well as Europe.
http://scoreinternational.org/

ESPN 710AM- USC's Playhouse- MD Classic and Community Coalition

Coming Up On the Next
Southern California Experience

USC's Frat House - Project Playhouse, HomeAid Orange County,
Henry Bobby Clark and former Mayor of Monrovia Bob Barlett
and Brian Wright of Community Coalition

Sunday September 28, 2008
Tara Morenc is the Director of Purchasing for William Lyon Homes. William Lyon Homes has built playhouses for Project Playhouse since the beginning – 17 years ago. Tara has personally led the construction of the playhouses for 12 years. This year she designed a USC Frat House. To build dignified housing where homeless families and individuals can rebuild their lives. www.projectplayhouse.org

Sunday, September 28, 2008
MD Classic Football - Ending Gang Violence Through Football
Monrovia and Duarte High Schools Henry Bobby Clark and
Former Monrovia Mayor Bob Bartlett.

Sunday, September 28, 2008
Brian Wright, Board Member, Community Coalition. The coalition works with African American and Latino residents to build a prosperous and productive South LA with safe neighborhoods, quality schools, a strong social safety net, and economic development based on community need. www.cocosouthla.org