{"id":800605,"date":"2019-10-22T17:54:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T23:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=373318"},"modified":"2019-10-22T17:54:42","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T23:54:42","slug":"gloria-quintero-providing-a-voice-for-summit-county-minorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/gloria-quintero-providing-a-voice-for-summit-county-minorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Gloria Quintero: Providing a voice for Summit County minorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/col-quintero-sdn-102319-1024x1024.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/col-quintero-sdn-102319-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/col-quintero-sdn-102319-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/col-quintero-sdn-102319-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/col-quintero-sdn-102319-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/col-quintero-sdn-102319.jpeg 1087w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>Gloria Quintero<\/strong><br \/><em>Courtesy photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Occupation: Strengthening Families outreach program counselor with Summit County Youth and Family Services<\/li>\n<li>Hometown: born in Merida, Venezuela; moved to the USA in 1992 (speaks Spanish, English, Italian, Portuguese)<\/li>\n<li>Family: husband and three children ages 19, 17 and 4<\/li>\n<li>Civic involvement: Youth Mental Health First Aid certified instructor, Child Passenger Safety Technician certified, Pyramid Plus certified, Head Start Policy Counsel member, Feria de Salud (9 Health Fair) founding committee member, Summit County Child Passenger Safety Coalition founder and Trust-Based Relational Intervention trained.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My name is Gloria Quintero, and I\u2019m running for Summit<br \/>\nSchool District\u2019s Board of Education.<\/p>\n<p>I have degrees in accounting and international business and<br \/>\na master\u2019s degree in social and human sciences. I currently work with families<br \/>\nat risk and\/or in crises. Before that, I worked with Public Health and Early<br \/>\nIntervention, which ensures that children ages birth to 3 with developmental<br \/>\ndelays get the help they require. I have seen firsthand the hard decisions that<br \/>\nworking families in Summit County have to make when their children with<br \/>\ndevelopmental delays turn 3 years old. While the public school system offers<br \/>\nsome therapy, those preschools have limited enrollment, high tuition fees and<br \/>\nfill less than 28 hours of the child\u2019s week. As a result, the majority of working<br \/>\nparents opt for private preschools that aren\u2019t compelled to monitor special<br \/>\nneeds. Children who receive therapy in private settings have to pay their<br \/>\ntherapists out of pocket. I\u2019m a Summit County employee, and even my insurance<br \/>\nwill not cover these expenses \u2014 roughly $160 per week for the minimum suggested<br \/>\ncounseling. Often children\u2019s special needs go unmet until kindergarten, two<br \/>\nyears later. It is a shame that something like dyslexia, which is already<br \/>\nstressful for the family, would be enough to force residents out of Summit<br \/>\nCounty. But more tragic would be not meeting the child\u2019s needs. Failing to get<br \/>\nadequate help during these crucial developmental years could put them at a<br \/>\nlife-long disadvantage.<\/p>\n<p>The above example offers only a glimpse from the parent\u2019s<br \/>\nperspective.<\/p>\n<p>Unmet social and emotional needs have repercussions for<br \/>\nteachers, classmates, those classmates\u2019 parents and schools\u2019 administrations.<br \/>\nThe trickle-down effect of early detection and intervention leads to less class<br \/>\ndisruption, thus freeing teachers to spend less time disciplining and more time<br \/>\nteaching.<\/p>\n<p>Shoring up lapses in services will be a slow, gradual<br \/>\nprocess, but the effects will be felt throughout the school district.<\/p>\n<p>Our teachers also need Summit County living wages to let<br \/>\nthem focus on our students without worrying about secondary employment. All of<br \/>\nthe candidates I\u2019ve spoken with have that belief in common. I was endorsed by<br \/>\nthe Summit County Education Association, not because I\u2019m fighting for those<br \/>\nteachers\u2019 wages, but because I\u2019m eyeing long-term strategies even they don\u2019t<br \/>\nknow to ask for.<\/p>\n<p>I urge voters to look not only at all 10 School Board candidates\u2019<br \/>\nstrengths, backgrounds and priorities but those of everyone already on the<br \/>\nschool board. No one else has the background to represent the groups I\u2019ve made<br \/>\na career of helping. It\u2019s important to bear in mind that the four candidates<br \/>\nchosen Nov. 5 are not being tapped to overhaul some broken system. We\u2019re being<br \/>\nelected to work with the existing system, representing our ever-diversifying<br \/>\ncommunity\u2019s interests. I don\u2019t view the school board as a stepping stone to a<br \/>\ncareer in politics, and I don\u2019t like anything about campaigning. I\u2019m running<br \/>\nbecause it\u2019s important that someone with my knowledge gets in a position to<br \/>\neffect positive change.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for this opportunity.<\/p>\n<p><em>Find more election coverage at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/election\/\">SummitDaily.com\/election<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/gloria-quintero-providing-a-voice-for-summit-county-minorities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gloria QuinteroCourtesy photo Occupation: Strengthening Families outreach program counselor with Summit County Youth and Family Services Hometown: born in Merida, Venezuela; moved to the USA in 1992 (speaks Spanish, English, Italian, Portuguese) Family: husband and three children ages 19, 17 and 4 Civic involvement: Youth Mental Health First Aid certified instructor, Child Passenger Safety Technician [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-800605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 10:40:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}