Our next giving circle will be conducted virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On Thursday, February 3rd, members will receive an email from us with an electronic ballot. Below you will find all of the information you need to make your choice. Please review and then look for the ballot email to cast your vote. Voting will remain open until 5pm on Wednesday, February 9th.
We will not be holding a live zoom call this quarter, so we will announce the recipient via email. Keep an eye on your inbox!
We have three great groups this quarter:
Each of these groups has provided additional information on how they would use our collective donation if selected as well as an information sheet about the organization. Please scroll down to learn more.
We will not be holding a live zoom call this quarter, so we will announce the recipient via email. Keep an eye on your inbox!
We have three great groups this quarter:
- Time of Change. Time of Change Recovery Services only uses Evidence Based Practices to reduce recidivism and to increase public safety, correcting anti-social maladaptive behaviours, addressing not just the symptom but the core trauma that activated the behaviours.
- Yolo Cares (Yolo Hospice). Yolo Hospice's mission is to serve our communities, providing the highest level of care for every patient, every family, every time.
- Yolo Community Care Continuum. Yolo Community Care Continuum's mission is to better the lives of people with mental illness through direct services, advocacy, education and volunteer efforts.
Each of these groups has provided additional information on how they would use our collective donation if selected as well as an information sheet about the organization. Please scroll down to learn more.
Time of Change
Healing Circles Retreats
Time of Change serves those in our community who have suffered from trauma, loss, and violence. We are credible messengers that are dedicated to promoting healing and public safety by providing respectful compassionate, behavioral intervention and culturally rooted, trauma-informed therapeutic care and effective healing through our social-emotional Healing Circles.
What is a Healing Circle?
A Healing Circle is a group of individuals who gather with a clear intention of healing. The circle represents life's continuation with no beginning and no end. Each healing circle is uniquely created based on the intentions and goal of the group, or individual being honored. Healing circles allow individuals to share in healing, benefiting from the collective energy of the group, and guidance of an elder, while supporting everyone to grow and strengthen themselves. There is a sanctity within Healing Circles that offer people solitude, intergenerational healing, and retreat, while simultaneously respecting the groups therapeutic process in a nature setting.
Benefits:
Your support would enable us to provide 4-6 healing circles a year in a nature setting, provide transportation and food for 60 participants (Year). Study shows that time in nature serves as an antidote for stress, trauma, and helps to ground oneself. Being in nature lowers your blood pressure, stress hormone, enhances your immune system function, and reduces your nervous system's negative responses. With this in mind, we feel certain sites in Lake Tahoe would create the environment necessary for self-introspection and allow processing groups to effectuate healing.
Upon returning from the healing circles community members will have the support network and resources to extend services to youth. Through observation and testimonies from community members we have learned that there is a need for more extensive credible messengers to reach our youth. These trips would allow to build more train the trainers. Because we only keep what we have by giving it away.
Time of Change are members of California Partnership to End Domestic Violence (CPEDV), and all staff adhere to their guidelines.
Inquiries can be be directed to: Grace Romero, Executive Director at 530.461.0777 or [email protected]
Time of Change serves those in our community who have suffered from trauma, loss, and violence. We are credible messengers that are dedicated to promoting healing and public safety by providing respectful compassionate, behavioral intervention and culturally rooted, trauma-informed therapeutic care and effective healing through our social-emotional Healing Circles.
What is a Healing Circle?
A Healing Circle is a group of individuals who gather with a clear intention of healing. The circle represents life's continuation with no beginning and no end. Each healing circle is uniquely created based on the intentions and goal of the group, or individual being honored. Healing circles allow individuals to share in healing, benefiting from the collective energy of the group, and guidance of an elder, while supporting everyone to grow and strengthen themselves. There is a sanctity within Healing Circles that offer people solitude, intergenerational healing, and retreat, while simultaneously respecting the groups therapeutic process in a nature setting.
Benefits:
- Heal the effects of a painful childhood
- Uncover strengths and gifts
- Transform pain into skills
Your support would enable us to provide 4-6 healing circles a year in a nature setting, provide transportation and food for 60 participants (Year). Study shows that time in nature serves as an antidote for stress, trauma, and helps to ground oneself. Being in nature lowers your blood pressure, stress hormone, enhances your immune system function, and reduces your nervous system's negative responses. With this in mind, we feel certain sites in Lake Tahoe would create the environment necessary for self-introspection and allow processing groups to effectuate healing.
Upon returning from the healing circles community members will have the support network and resources to extend services to youth. Through observation and testimonies from community members we have learned that there is a need for more extensive credible messengers to reach our youth. These trips would allow to build more train the trainers. Because we only keep what we have by giving it away.
Time of Change are members of California Partnership to End Domestic Violence (CPEDV), and all staff adhere to their guidelines.
Inquiries can be be directed to: Grace Romero, Executive Director at 530.461.0777 or [email protected]
| Time of Change Organizational Overview |
Yolo Cares (Yolo Hospice)
The Gwendolyn Kaltoft Patient Care Fund
Making peace with our mortality is no small thing, especially if we have an unresolved wish or worry.
That's why YoloCares created the Gwendolyn Kaltoft Patient Care Fund. For 42+ years, YoloCares, formerly Yolo Hospice, has provided the highest quality care for serious illness, bereavement, spiritual needs, caregiving, hospice, and age-related life transitions throughout Yolo County and surrounding areas. Yet, sometimes patients need support outside of standard care.
Dolores and John had lived together for years. When John's time grew short, YoloCares' spiritual care counselor asked if there was anything else we could do. John replied, "Yes. Marry us." YoloCares bought flowers, a dress for Dolores, and a tuxedo for John. They were married shortly before John died, fulfilling a dearly held wish. Afterwards, John revealed that it was also a huge relief to him to know that Dolores, who had cared for him in sickness and in health, was now officially his wife, and would qualify for his veterans' benefits. His relief was tremendous, and he died peacefully, his wife by his side.
The Kaltoft Patient Care Fund works to fill the gaps that regular patient care doesn't cover. YoloCares serves over 1,500 patients, caregivers, and families annually. Many of them share needs they don't believe can be fulfilled. With help from generous donors, the Kaltoft fund ensures that YoloCares makes dreams come true, even in the final months, days, or moments of life.
Debbie knew it was time to move to an assisted living facility. But she had one major concern: she couldn't afford the fees to take her beloved cat, Little. YoloCares helped Debbie and Little find a home and paid Little's $500 pet deposit. Now, Debbie gets the care she needs and has her best friend beside her.
Inquiries can be be directed to: Craig Dresang, CEO at (530) 758-5566 or [email protected]
Making peace with our mortality is no small thing, especially if we have an unresolved wish or worry.
That's why YoloCares created the Gwendolyn Kaltoft Patient Care Fund. For 42+ years, YoloCares, formerly Yolo Hospice, has provided the highest quality care for serious illness, bereavement, spiritual needs, caregiving, hospice, and age-related life transitions throughout Yolo County and surrounding areas. Yet, sometimes patients need support outside of standard care.
Dolores and John had lived together for years. When John's time grew short, YoloCares' spiritual care counselor asked if there was anything else we could do. John replied, "Yes. Marry us." YoloCares bought flowers, a dress for Dolores, and a tuxedo for John. They were married shortly before John died, fulfilling a dearly held wish. Afterwards, John revealed that it was also a huge relief to him to know that Dolores, who had cared for him in sickness and in health, was now officially his wife, and would qualify for his veterans' benefits. His relief was tremendous, and he died peacefully, his wife by his side.
The Kaltoft Patient Care Fund works to fill the gaps that regular patient care doesn't cover. YoloCares serves over 1,500 patients, caregivers, and families annually. Many of them share needs they don't believe can be fulfilled. With help from generous donors, the Kaltoft fund ensures that YoloCares makes dreams come true, even in the final months, days, or moments of life.
Debbie knew it was time to move to an assisted living facility. But she had one major concern: she couldn't afford the fees to take her beloved cat, Little. YoloCares helped Debbie and Little find a home and paid Little's $500 pet deposit. Now, Debbie gets the care she needs and has her best friend beside her.
Inquiries can be be directed to: Craig Dresang, CEO at (530) 758-5566 or [email protected]
| YoloCares Organizational Overview.pdf |
Yolo Community Care Continuum
The YCCC program that we are highlighting is the Farmhouse. Farmhouse is a rehabilitative treatment facility which provides a supportive group living environment for adults with a chronic mental illness who are transitioning from a high level of care to a community-based setting. Within the structure of Farmhouse is the occupational program Farm-to-Mouth. Finding employment for individuals with a mental illness can be challenging, so in 2012 Farm-to-Mouth was created with the help of a grant from the Mental Health Services Act.
The purpose of Farm-to-Mouth is to provide garden-based employment training for people with mental illness in Yolo County. Throughout the year Farm-to-Mouth employs 1-14 people from Farmhouse and the Woodland, Davis community and offers a 2-hour work shift once per week. Farm-to-Mouth has a very small budget and survives on donations and grants. Your vote will help to sustain this program and continue to help clients create a quality of a life worth living.
The Farm-to-Mouth employees learn to:
Employees of Farm-to-Mouth benefit from the program by receiving a paycheck for their work, a portion of the produce, and gain various farming and therapeutic coping skills. They assist with the care of a thriving, healthy garden, implementing organic gardening methods including cover cropping, mulching, composting, seed saving and diversified crop planting. They also gain a sense of belonging and peace.
Recently Farm-to-mouth employees assisted in the first stages of planting a hedgerow to go around the property.
They partnered with local ecosystem restoration non-profit Putah Creek Council who generously donated a brand-new baby Native plant hedgerow.
Inquiries can be be directed to: Amber E. Salazar, LMFT, Executive Director at 530-758-2160 or [email protected]
The purpose of Farm-to-Mouth is to provide garden-based employment training for people with mental illness in Yolo County. Throughout the year Farm-to-Mouth employs 1-14 people from Farmhouse and the Woodland, Davis community and offers a 2-hour work shift once per week. Farm-to-Mouth has a very small budget and survives on donations and grants. Your vote will help to sustain this program and continue to help clients create a quality of a life worth living.
The Farm-to-Mouth employees learn to:
- Grow and sell/donate fruits and vegetables from seasonal year-round gardens
- Learn about nutritional benefits of home-grown produce, healthy-eating habits, and cultivating a more active lifestyle
- Set up and maintain drip irrigation systems
- Remove the weeds in our garden
- Build and provide upkeep on the animal shelters
- Feed and care for the pig, goats, a badling of ducks, a small flock of chickens, and cat
Employees of Farm-to-Mouth benefit from the program by receiving a paycheck for their work, a portion of the produce, and gain various farming and therapeutic coping skills. They assist with the care of a thriving, healthy garden, implementing organic gardening methods including cover cropping, mulching, composting, seed saving and diversified crop planting. They also gain a sense of belonging and peace.
Recently Farm-to-mouth employees assisted in the first stages of planting a hedgerow to go around the property.
They partnered with local ecosystem restoration non-profit Putah Creek Council who generously donated a brand-new baby Native plant hedgerow.
Inquiries can be be directed to: Amber E. Salazar, LMFT, Executive Director at 530-758-2160 or [email protected]
| YCCC Organizational Overview |