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San Francisco Elder Economic Security Leadership Forum - October 8, 8:30 a.m.
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We are building momentum - help us keep Elder Economic Security high on the Agenda.
Please join us for the 3rd in a series of Forums to mobilize our community
to help older San Franciscans make it through these tough times. By providing more "economic casework" and collaborating to share resources across issue areas, we hope to weave together a more comprehensive package of services and supports. Also, we will continue a conversation about how government policies and priorities might shift to better "help seniors make ends meet" in San Francisco. Sincerely, 
Cathy Spensley Marie Jobling Ramsey Alwin
Family Services Agency Community Living Campaign NCOA
Friday, October 8, 2010
8:30 to 1:00 (including lunch)
Unitarian Universalist Conference Center, 1187 Franklin
8:30 Registration, Continential Breakfast
9:00 Welcome and Introductions, Resource Exchange
9:15 Overview - Economic Security Initiative - Progress So Far, Vision for
the Future
Cathy Spensley, Family Service Agency
Marie Jobling, Community Living Campaign
9:20 Could your Older Neighbors be Struggling in Silence?`
Release of the 2010 Elder Index for San Francisco - Susie Smith, Insight
Center
How much does it take for seniors to "to make ends meet" in S.F.?
9:40 Opening Panel - Money, how seniors can earn it, save it, protect it!
Marc Majors - Office of Economic and Workforce Development
Marco Chavarin - Bank on San Francisco, SF Treasuer's Office
Representative, Elder Financial Protection Network
10:20 Putting Elder Economic Security "On The Agenda"
Facilitated Work Groups with Resource People will build on the great work done at our last form and the progress since then. We will hone our Action Plan and further set priorities on Three Levels:
Personal / Stories - We need to be organizing ourselves to capture the stories that raise public awareness. Threats to cut Social Security, loss of pension and savings, the unrelenting growth in the cost of living, growing problems of financial abuse will all become real if we can tell the life stories. We have the resources to capture the stories, now what's our strategy to move forward? Practice / Casework - We have the concept for person-centered, holistic casework that addresses more of the economic issues, and we have partners who are willing to make this happen. Now how do we put the pieces together in a robust and creative way in San Francisco?
Policy / Advocacy - We have identified a number of opportunities, large and small, to push policies and practices that move toward elder economic security. How can we set priorities and begin to organize?
11:30 Report Back and Special Guests
11:55 Wrap Up and Call to Action
Noon Networking Lunch - (Please register to assure your lunch)
Resource Tables Provided - Registered organizations are invited to bring resource information to share. Our "Swap Meet" of Services and Support Will Continue to Grow.
Register by emailing cwindle@fsasf.org. For more information, call Marie Jobling at 415-821-1003.
Do you see you and your organization represented in this image? Then imagine what is possible if we all worked together across silos to help individuals and families make ends meet.
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