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SAVE THE DATE: May 15, 2012 - City Hall
Registration will open in March
Sponsorship Opportunties Available - Call (415) 821-1003 |
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Free Book Offer - A Warm and Wonderful View of the City and Its People
Make a modest donation to the Community Living Campaign by March 15th and receive a free copy of this wonderful book, written by a long-time friend and colleague Elizabeth Boardman. Here are 3 ways to help:
Donate $25 donation (or more) to CLC on-line HERE.
Send a check for $25.00 (or more) to CLC, P.0. Box 460400, SF, CA 94146.
Join the BACE Timebank and pledge an hour now to the Community Living Campaign HERE. (You can actual pledge your time now, and decide how to help out another timebank member later! )
For more information about the Bay Area Community Exchange Timebank, download a simple factsheet HERE.
If you have any questions about how to sign-up and use the Timebank, contact our newest Community Connector and BACE Timebank founder, Mira Luna at [email protected]
Thanks, Elizabeth, for writing this book! And thanks to everyone who has already made their donation and gotten a free copy of this delightful book. |
CLC On-line and In the News
Over the past couple of months, CLC has been featured in several on-line articles.
From National Council on Aging ...
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From AARP...
Facebook members can read more here. Thanks to Dorothy Lefkovits and Community Connector Karen Holt for their work expanding the CLC Food Network to the Parkmerced/University Park neighborhood and to the Dept. of Aging and Adult Services for their support
From Assemblywoman Fiona Ma...
honoring CLC Community Connector Deloris for her work in the community.
Thanks, Assemblywoman Fiona, for helping honor community leaders. |
Senior Survival School and Senior University Present A Joint Senior Disability Advocacy Class Learn about resources like transportation and changing health benefits, offer feedback to local agencies, and practice advocacy skills (because are all going to need them!) At the Mission YMCA, 4080 Mission at Silver Avenue. Spanish interpretation and healthy snacks included. Dates are March 13, 20, 27, and April 3 from 9:00 to Noon. For more info, call Sarah Jarmon at Planning for Elders, 415-703-0188 or Pi Ra at Senior Action Network, 415-546-2096. |
Support Grassroots Advocacy...
End the Medicare Home Rule
Local Medicare Advocate Peggy Coster has started an on-line petition to do away with the Medicare Home Rule. This policy refuses wheelchairs or home chore assistance for people with degenerative neuromuscular disablities. It creates painful isolation and costs taxpayers more in the end. Will you support Peggy's leadership by signing this petition HERE? |
The First BTOP Computers Get Connected! Calling All Volunteers to Get Classes Going...
Staff and volunteers from the Community Technology Network unpacked the boxes and started hooking up the new touch screen HP Computers at the I.T. Bookman Center at 446 Randolph Street. See a list of sites and information about upcoming classes at www.sfconnected.info.
If you would like to volunteer at one of the up and coming Computer Centers, please contact Kerri Shannon at (510) 479-0931 or [email protected].
Basic Volunteer training will be offered:
Tuesday, February 21 from 6:30-9:00 at Valencia Gardens.
Another BTOP Volunteer Training will be held on Wednesday, February 15 from 2:00 to 5:00 at Eastern Park Apartments
Congratulations to CTN Executive Director Kami Griffiths on the birth of her son Alexander "Xander" Frank Terhune, born Sunday, Jan. 29th. Happy Birth-day Kami and Xander! |
The Breast Cancer Support Group Builds Partners to Fight Breast Cancer
The Breast Cancer Support Group Builds Partnerships to Fight Breast Cancer. The long awaited presentation "Sex and Breast Cancer" with guest speaker Ola Donley provided a lively topic for discussion at the January 19th gathering. Support group is sponsored by Lutheran Church of Our Savior Seniors, Community Living Campaign and California Pacific Medical Center. The group recognizes that breast cancer is a family issue, not just a women's issue. Come and learn a few things that just might help you or someone you know. The Support group meets the 3rd Thursday of every month at Lutheran Church of Our Savior, 1011 Garfield Street in the OMI. For more information, contact Deloris McGee at (415) 585-9859. |
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CLC Mondays at
360 Valencia Street |
February Computer Classes
Community Living Campaign (CLC) shows you how technology and social media are new tools to help individuals, neighbors and organizations reduce isolation and reweave community.
More detailed schedule of CLC classes and activities at www.clcsocial.org
Social Media Classes - 10:00 to Noon
Feb 6 -- Graphics for Valentine's Day
Feb 13 - Food and Restaurants On-Line
Feb 20 -Closed for Presidents Day
Feb 27 - "As Seen On TV"
Open Lab and Basic Skills Training
Mondays in February 9:00 to 3:00
Skilled CLC Staff & Volunteers On-Site
Open Lab and Basic Skills Training in Spanish
January 17 through February 28
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:00 to 2:30 Open Lab
A Special Thank-You to Mission Housing Development Corporation for making this spacious computer lab available to the Community Living Campaign for classes.
The Web World's your Oyster!!! Everyone is welcome! Call for further information or to sign up: CLC Computer Connections at 415-821-1003 or www.clcsocial.org
These trainings are provided, in part, with a grant from the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) and the support of the San Francisco Department of Aging and Adult Services. |
| January 13th Skype Demo at Bethany Center |
Around the City - Come Engage with Us
Computer Training and Special Activities
Tel-Hi Neighborhood Center
Wednesdays, 9:00 to Noon
One on one tutoring (sign-up needed in advance) and open lab every Wednesday from 9:00 to Noon, in partnership with Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center and
NEXT Village - San Francisco. Sign-up on site at Ruby's desk.
Bethany Center
Every Thursday 9:00 to Noon, 560 Capp
One on one tutoring (sign-up at the desk in advance)
Laguna Honda Hospital - 1st and 3rd Wednesdays
Individualized Help/Instruction in the Library in partnership with Laguna Honda Activities Department. Looking for more volunteers to be able to go every week.
| See who is learning about Facebook! |
| Instructor Rob McBride concludes a 4 week class at the Downtown Senior Center |
To learn about these events,
or if you are interested in
scheduling a "seeds of hope" computer introduction event
for your own neighborhood
or organization,
please see www.clcsocial.org
or contact Judy Auda at
(415) 826-3194 or judyauda@yahoo.com. |
| Community Connector Jennifer Walsh |
Meet Community Connector
Jennifer Walsh
"I have been a community connector since the beginning of the Community Living Campaign in 2008. CLC is an organization that looks past people's circumstance and expects them to participate in living life at the fullest. Being a connector has helped me shape my consulting service, Changing One Mind at a Time (www.COMAAT.biz) in which I work with organizations to be more inclusive and with individuals to fully participate in the community and take an active role in their own lives.
CLC realizes everyone has different kinds of connections throughout communities so I see my role as the hub where everything intersects. My first network came out of a member of San Francisco People First. My focus person is really outgoing and loves interacting with new people so the network is built to find new activities and adventures of self-expression. This network likes to have parties, with music, dogs, gossip and most importantly, lots of food. So if you are interested in having fun, let me know.
| Jennifer was a regular part of our Seeds of Hope Garden Parties that brought people together in beautiful, accessible gardens across the City. |
Parties are the foundation
of any network. They open up people's hearts. I have learned so much by having a meal with somebody and listening to their stories, complaints and aspirations. I believe if you think it, it is possible, and my role is to connect the dots to help people realize how to achieve their own perfect life.
Everyone has their own ideal life that they want to live. However, sometimes society or well-intentioned people put a face on how others should act in a particular situation, in the name of protecting or helping them. That's not what we do. At CLC we take people where they are, and always remember the focus person is the guide of how they wish to interact with the world.
My approach to connecting individuals is to build support systems around them that are made up of people with the same kind of interests. The network or support system is made up of people who truly have something in common. In my role as a connector I have to figure out what the focus person's interests are. For example, if I know a person likes to play poker, I might think about who else I know who likes poker and introduce them. And, after a while, that person will invite a friend to the network and hopefully everyone gets along.
Aside from my individual's networks I am also beginning a bigger network at Laguna Honda hospital, focusing on using computers to reach out to the community. I will be at Laguna Honda every Wednesday, working with groups and individuals on learning how to use the internet and social media to widen their interactions, strengthen their self-determination, and connect to a community outside of the hospital.
Technology can truly build a bridge to inclusion. Over the years I realized that email actually removes the disability from the picture. The receiver of my emails doesn't know how I actually compose the email, or how I access the keys, which is a very amazing concept. The receiver only gets my message. Being on the internet is the only time I do not have the disabled label. This is why I hope more will consider being involved with social media to get back into the community."
Jennifer Walsh, Community Connector
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HELP Send CLC To Washington D.C.
CLC has been invited to make a presentation "Seniors, Social Media and the Fine Art of Community-building" at the Aging in America Conference in Washington DC the last week of March. We have raised more than half of the money for registration and airfare. We are looking for the donation of United miles and some funds toward the shared hotel for 2 nights. If you can help us take our work to the big time, call Marie at (415) 821-1003. |
Community Living Campaign (415) 821-1003
San Francisco, CA 94103 |
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