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JANUARY 2015
See our calendar for more details about upcoming events. Find it on our website and blog!
Next Connections for Healthy Aging Workshop
Don't miss out! There's still room for a couple more people at our next Connections for Health Aging Workshop, starting:
Thursday, January 8, 9:30-1:00

Rosa Parks Senior Center 

1111 Buchanan (at Golden Gate)  

Workshop dates are Jan. 8, 15, 22 & Feb. 5 - participants should plan to attend all 4 dates. Lunch is included at no charge.  

Download a flyer with more info here. To join us, contact Marcia at (415) 359-1816 or marcia.peterzell@comcast.net. 

See below how we are partnering with others to take these information "on the road". These free workshops made possible with support from the May and Stanley Smith Trust. 
Help CLC Strengthen Neighborhoods and Transform Lives 
Our heartfelt thanks to everyone who contributed time. money, or both to the Community Living Campaign in 2014. Thanks to your generous support, you and over 1,200 of your fellow San Franciscans are creating the aging-and disability-friendly communities we all need to age and thrive at home. 

For 2015, can you contribute $15 or $20 each month to help us reach even more of our older and disabled neighbors?  Don't wait a minute longer - start the year right with a gift to the Community Living Campaign.  
Donate to the Community Living Campaign    
Work To Help Our Neighbors Make Ends Meet 
Free MUNI Rally & MTA Vote Jan 20 City Hall 
seniors with signs about Free Muni
Time for another push to win Free MUNI for seniors and persons with disabilities.  Join us on
Tuesday, January 20th, 
11:30 at City Hall - Carlton Goodlett Steps (or North Light Court if raining.)  
Then at Noon, attend the MTA Board meeting at 1:00, Room 400 City Hall. Organized by Senior & Disability Action and Chinatown Community Development Center. For more information, call (415) 546-1333
Help Increase Woefully Low SSI/SSP Benefits
In California, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), combined with the State older woman looking ashamed in a food pantry line Supplemental Payment (SSP), is a program funded jointly by the Federal and state governments to provide income support to seniors and people with disabilities.  Current SSI/SSP grants for single Californians are $877 per month, only 90% of the Federal Poverty Level, and significantly less than the actual income level needed for self-sufficiency.  

Low SSI/SSP grant levels have left California seniors hungry, homeless or with extraordinary housing cost burdens, unable to afford medical care, and without access to the basics like clothing, transportation, or the ability to take care of basic needs like doing laundry or buying hygiene items.

The status quo - keeping SSI/SSP grant levels the way they are - means keeping SSI recipients in poverty and at risk for homelessness, malnutrition, and poor health. Join us by signing the petition below and telling our state legislators and policy-makers to take action and improve SSI/SSP starting in the 2015-16 legislative session.  Thanks to St. Anthony Foundation for taking the lead on this issue.  


Learn more how state has fostered this injustice at the California Budget Project.
TAPcare - Connect with Affordable Homecare 
video of homeworker Johnisha talking
Johnisha 
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Bring a presentation about how TAPcare can help low income residents and caregivers find trained, screened, culturally appropriate and affordable personal care attendants.  The program includes both IHSS and affordable private pay workers. 

Sarah Marquez (pictured below) of TAPcare gave a great presentation in 360 Valencia in December.  View the videos at right to see how easy it is to "meet" potential workers before even that first phone call.  

If you're interested in a TAPcare presentation at your senior center, faith community, or other organization, contact Sarah at smarquez@tapca.org or call (415) 659-5370 and learn more at www.tap-care.org.
young woman leading computer presentation

News and Updates 
Cayuga Sing-Along and More  
older woman looking cheery at event

 

CLC's Cayuga Community Connectors hosted a great sing-along and holiday gift exchange.  See more pictures on our Facebook Page.

Community Connector Patti Spaniak sends along this update: 

 

The Cayuga Community Connectors continues to grow into a group of active and caring friends. Our motto: Turning strangers into neighbors and neighbors into friends - was put into action this year by helping to support each other in daily life:  giving rides to doctor visits, grocery runs and post office errands. 

Our neighbor-helping-neighbor work included offering support in times of illness, grief and loneliness. As a group we shared exercise class, enjoyed homemade meals at the Potluck and sang together at the Holiday Sing Along.  We look forward to a new year of strengthening our network and working to meet the needs of our community. We've planned a Computer Basics Workshop, Eating Healthier in 2015 and may even try belly dancing!  We wish all of our San Francisco CLC partner programs much success, happiness and good health this new year.
 
For more info about Cayuga activities, contact Patti Spaniak at pspaniak@me.com.

 
Food Network Volunteers Are Awesome

volunteers unloading food from truck Our OMI and Parkmerced/University Park Food networks remained homeless during the month of December, but that didn't stop them from helping those in need. They packed and delivered groceries out of the back of a truck in a parking lot in the OMI (see blog post), dodging the raindrops.  On top of that, they worked together with local groups to help coordinate the delivery of 550 turkeys and trimmings, thanks to the generosity of Glide Food Program (see blog post) and host sites IT Bookman and Olivet Missionary Baptist Church.   Special thanks to Glen Deb, Mamie Burgess, Karen Holt, Chester Williams, and Veronica Shepard for all they did to help coordinate the delivery of 550 turkeys to good homes on December 17th. 

OMI & Parkmerced volunteer poise
  

 

bayview volunteers poise


The Good News - Minnie and Lovie Ward Recreation Center has embraced our program and we will begin delivery from their site on Tuesday, January 6th. We are most grateful for their hospitality.  Now that we have a new home, we are looking for volunteers to help pack groceries and do a small delivery route in the neighborhoods. If you can help, contact Marie at (415) 821-1003 x1 or marie@sfcommunityliving.org.

 
Dr. King Luncheon at Minnie and Lovie Ward Rec Center 
Our new site host for the Food Network program in the OMI is sponsoring a greatluncheon commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Friday, January 16th from 11:30 to 1:00 at Minnie and Lovie Ward Recreation Center at 650 Capitol Street. Please RSVP by Friday, Jan. 9th.  Make checks payable to: Special Activities Committee.  For more information, call (415) 337-4710.  This center graciously embraced our Food Delivery Program, so please help us show our appreciation by supporting this event.    
Community Living Campaign and California Alliance for Retired Americans Team Up 
The CLC Connections for Healthy Aging Trainers are helping to take a version of our popular Connections for Healthy Aging Workshop series on the road to CARA Action Teams in different parts of the state.  This joint training for 24 CARA leaders and staff was great fun, with a most engaged and interesting group of seniors.  Once the workshop dates and locations are set, you can help us spread the word. See more pictures here.  
Watch DAAS Commission Meetings Live 
image of video from DAAS Commission meeting The Aging and Adult Services Commission meetings are now on TV!  You can access them if you have cable TV or on your computer.  On your TV, you will find them on Channel 26 and Channel 78.  On your computer, go to www.sfgovtv.org. Try it out. See the December Commission meeting here.  You can watch programs live or "on demand" at a time convenient for you. Be like the late Vera Haile, who learned a lot by watching government and SF residents in action.  Next Commission Meeting - Wednesday, January 7 at 9:30 a.m.
Upcoming Computer Classes
360 Valencia Street Computer Lab Free computer classes and one-on-one assistance continues at 360 Valencia on Mondays starting at 9:00 a.m. This month's classes include:
Are you a collector? Learn how the internet can help - Jan.12, 10 to 12
Help desk with Bethany Schwarz - bring your phones, tablets, laptops and questions - Jan 26, 10 to 3 

 

logo of on the road classes Presentations On The Road  Join us this month for a lively array of free presentations on paratransit opportunities, genealogy, social media and assistive technology. For information about these and other hands-on presentations, contact Judy Auda at 415-826-3194 or judyauda@yahoo.com

Regular CLC-Supported Computer Labs - CLC sends tutors and trainers to senior and community centers around the City as part of the San Francisco Connected program.  

Community Living Campaign Logo on green background

The nonprofit Community Living Campaign (CLC) has been working since 2007 to deliver programs and rally advocates who want to live in communities where people are less isolated and everyone is called to contribute.

CLC reweaves the relationships that people need to age and thrive in their own communities. We believe that seniors and people with disabilities are their own valuable assets -- they already know what their community needs. Working with these neighbors and local organizations, CLC develops free and low-cost programs to:

  • Reduce isolation
  • Increase access to technology
  • Promote advocacy and other skills
  • And make new friends

Because aging in community requires change at all levels, we also advocate for better, more realistic local, state and national government policies and funding.

 

Transforming Lives by Building Aging and Disability Friendly Neighborhoods

 

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