{"id":1063512,"date":"2013-07-12T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/stem-cell-therapy\/sacramento-mental-health-advocate-appointed-to-stem-cell-agency-board.php"},"modified":"2024-08-17T20:30:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T00:30:05","slug":"sacramento-mental-health-advocate-appointed-to-stem-cell-agency-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/stem-cell-therapy\/sacramento-mental-health-advocate-appointed-to-stem-cell-agency-board.php","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento Mental Health Advocate Appointed to Stem Cell Agency Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\"><tbody><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5d8607364b_rowlett-al-Turning-Point-photo.PNG\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5d8607364b_rowlett-al-Turning-Point-photo.PNG\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Al Rowlett<br>Turning Point photo<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><div>Sacramento mental health advocate <b>Al<br>Rowlett<\/b> has been named to the governing board of the $3 billion<br>California stem cell agency,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cirm.ca.gov\/about-cirm\/newsroom\/press-releases\/07122013\/al-rowlett-mental-health-expert-appointed-stem-cell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> it was announced today<\/a>.<\/div><div><\/div><div>Rowlett replaces <b>Jonathan Shestack<\/b> on<br>the 29-member panel. Shestack had served on the board since 2004,<br>when the agency was created by the <b>Proposition 71<\/b> ballot initiative.<\/div><div><\/div><div>Rowlett is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpcp.org\/al-rowlett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chief operating officer of Turning Point Community Programs<\/a> in Sacramento. He was appointed to<br>the <b>CIRM<\/b> board by California Assembly Speaker <b>John Perez<\/b>, D-Los<br>Angeles. Rowlett will fill one of the 10 patient advocate slots on<br>the board. He will be only African-American on the panel. The board<br>had also included one African-American, <b>Ted Love<\/b>, from 2004 to April<br>2012, when Love resigned.<\/div><div><\/div><div>Rowlett is no stranger to public and<br>governmental service. He is in his second term as a member of the <b>Elk<br>Grove school board<\/b>, the fifth largest school district in California.<br>He has worked for Turning Point since 1981.<\/div><div><\/div><div>CIRM's press release said Rowlett also<br>serves on several other boards including <b>Child Abuse Prevention<br>Center, California Institute of Mental Health <\/b>and is a commissioner<br>for the <b>United States Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association<br>Certification Program.<\/b> In 2007, Rowlett won the <b>National Association<br>of Social Work- California and California State University &ndash; Heart<br>of Social Work Award<\/b> and the <b>Asian Pacific Community Counseling &ndash;<br>Inspirational Mental Health Leadership Award.<\/b><\/div><p><\/p><div><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/7b5d0eefc2_C2aH568yoco.\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">Source:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/blogspot\/uqpFc\/~3\/C2aH568yoco\/sacramento-mental-health-advocate.html\">http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/blogspot\/uqpFc\/~3\/C2aH568yoco\/sacramento-mental-health-advocate.html<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al RowlettTurning Point photoSacramento mental health advocate AlRowlett has been named to the governing board of the $3 billionCalifornia stem cell agency, it was announced today.Rowlett replaces Jonathan Shestack onthe 29-member panel. Shestack had served on the board since 2004,when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/stem-cell-therapy\/sacramento-mental-health-advocate-appointed-to-stem-cell-agency-board.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1246878],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem-cell-therapy","category-stem-cells"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}