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As Santa Barbara stands as a world famous tourist destination, the coastal California town north of Los Angeles is made up of beautiful buildings with a rich history. From Spanish style homes to intricately crafted archways and structures, the city was developed with the intention of an attractive design that would limit uncontrolled growth. Passionate Santa Barbara real estate professional Kenny Slaught provides insight on how the architectural integrity was upheld throughout the years.

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Known for his charitable mindset and passionate interest in American culture and urban design, California-based entrepreneur Kenny Slaught celebrates the impact of impeccable architectural trends and traditions on Santa-Barbara’s construction scene. The Spanish inspired buildings, explained Slaught, and the specially designed archways and structures stretch throughout this small coastal town of the Golden State, according to his blog at KennySlaught.com. He further elaborates on the history of constructional upsurge in Santa Barbara and recognizes how architectural trends shifted as the government tried to smooth the massive housing growth over a century.

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The Parenting After Loss program crosses eight weeks and acts as a support group for the parents, guardians, and children suffering the loss of a parent or sibling. The education and care felt in this program is built specifically around the emotional and practical reactions to death within a familial unit. Kenny Slaught explains that via participation in the program, families obtain the tools they need to communicate adequately with each other and grow stronger as a group as a result, despite experiencing the loss.

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Research has documented the serious impact that unaddressed grief among children and teenagers can have on their functioning and personality. When these young people have not gained the coping skills they need to process grief, they may fall victim to violence, drugs, or alcohol. I Have a Friend provides a productive outlet for these children and the opportunity to form a real bond with someone who has experienced the same chilling loss. Understanding the program’s significance, Kenny Slaught wrote, “Recognizing that the child’s life will never be the same, the mentor offers a positive example for how to process and deal with the pain of loss. The mentor serves as a symbol that happiness and wholeness can be achieved no matter how the child may feel in the years immediately following a major loss.”

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Aside from a sought after tourist destination, Santa Barbara has presently become a center for young and developing businesses, said Kenny Slaught. Dozens of promising, new companies have been founded in recent years, and many, including AppScale, LastLine, TrackR, and Salty Girl Seafood, have come directly out of the University of California Santa Barbara. With over $200 million raised for area startups from private investors in the last year, the Central Coast boasts nearly twice the investment per capita in innovation than the greater Los Angeles area, a much larger market. While some may feel the tempting pull of Silicon Valley or Hollywood, local entrepreneurs recognize the significance of building a business in an environment that promotes growth. As a result, the region is one of the best places in the country to launch and cultivate startups, spawning remarkable biotech, medical, technology, and scientific businesses like Inogen, Raytheon, Sonos, and BioIQ.

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A white-hot housing market has many West Coast buyers finding that they need to pay excessively high prices for older, less fashionable homes. Kenny Slaught notes that home prices have been steadily rising since 2008, with common reference, the Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller home price index, revealing that Los Angeles home prices reached their highest point during April of this year since October 2007. Having moved beyond simply recovering from the recession, Southern California’s larger metropolitan areas are approaching their former peaks. Slaught says the turnaround is due to a number of factors, including interest rates, job growth and supply and demand. As current 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages hover around 3.5% or less, these enticing numbers are nearing 3.31 percent (the record low hit in November 2012) and are encouraging many to buy. Historically low rates, coupled with strong employment numbers, such as a 2.4% gain in Los Angeles County and a 3.5% rise in Orange County, note why values have appreciated in an extraordinarily fast-paced manner. And even though home prices fluctuate considerably statewide, inflated asking prices on higher-end options are second only to Hawaii. The feverish demand for housing cannot currently be met by the slim supply available, with many first-timers forced to pursue condominium-style units: available and within a more modest price range.

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Kenny Slaught, founder and president of Investec Real Estate Companies, talks about the history of Santa Barbara’s Spanish Colonial architecture and how the city has worked to maintain its integrity. He addresses the different characteristics that make the design unique to other architectural styles, as well as touches upon the man, George Washington Smith, who made the style popular in California.

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Kenny Slaught supports Hospice of Santa Barbara efforts to provide wide range of services, not only for those facing terminal and chronic illness, but also for their families. Many of the organization’s initiatives focus on the needs of children as they process the impending or recent passing of a family member. Around 20 percent of children suffer the death of a loved one prior to turning 18, and one in 20 children sees the loss of one or both parents before they reach adulthood. Hospice of Santa Barbara seeks to provide those in these scenarios with free mentorship through numerous programs. This support helps children cope with their grief to avoid or alleviate depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

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Kenny Slaught promotes Hospice of Santa Barbara because they maintain an active presence on local school campuses at all levels, from elementary school thru college. The program’s volunteers visit these schools to organize weekly support groups for youth who have experienced traumatic or stressful situations and require a safe place in which to process their thoughts and feelings. On-site services seek to build supportive atmospheres which encourage self-reflection and teach critical coping skills. Developed coping skills can help teenagers avoid drugs and alcohol, as well as additional forms of self-medicating. In addition to working directly with children, the hospice volunteers provide training services to faculty and staff members covering how to interact with students who are dealing with trauma and how to handle student questions about death, particularly violent deaths and suicide. All 65 campuses in the Hospice of Santa Barbara network depend on the Hospice around the clock to respond to a traumatic situation promptly and effectively.

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Renowned property and Founder of Investec Real Estate Companies, Kenny Slaught is a former member of the board of the Santa Barbara Hospice Foundation, and remains a dedicated supporter of Hospice of Santa Barbara. He recently voiced his enthusiastic approval of the organization’s ‘I Have a Friend Program’ by promoting it on his blog, available at KennySlaught.com.

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