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FEBRUARY 2012
Free Book Offer
CLC In the News
Support Advocacy
Getting Connected
Cancer Support
Mondays at 360
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Meet Jennifer
Send CLC to DC
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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 ...
 
The picture below was taken just before the Special Event to honor the legacy of Norma Satten.    Read the whole article and learn more about Norma Satten here. 

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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 photo 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 upCLC Computer Connections at 415-821-1003 or www.clcsocial.org

  

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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

 

 

 

 

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.   
 
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