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Family Caregiver Alliance

Introducing new online classes and events for family caregivers, their care recipients and providers: 

CLASSES & EVENTS



• Let's Get Away, Together! — Every Tuesday through November 14. Join us in this popular virtual travel series as we explore Presidio Park, great inventors, All Hallow's Eve, Africa and joyful moments! Full info and registration here; read all about the series in this blog post!

• Como Hablar con su Doctor (How to Talk to Your Doctor) — October 17. This workshop teaches Spanish-speaking family caregivers how to identify and use more effective communication techniques with doctors and other health care professionals so they can more fully understand their care recipient's health situation and better advocate for them. Full info and registration  here. 

• ⽼年⼈⽼年退化症 101 (Dementia 101) — October 19. This class (in Chinese) provides a basic understanding of dementia and how it affects an individual, as well as tips for caregivers on how to cope with these changes. Full info and registration here.   

• There Must Be a Better Way Than This! — November 6. This 2-hour class helps caregivers understand dementia and the challenging behaviors that can accompany it. Participants will come away with strategies to cope with these behaviors and better communicate with their care recipient. Full info and registration here.  

• Powerful Tools for Caregivers — Six consecutive Tuesdays, November 7 to December 12. This free six-part class offers new skills and tools for family caregivers of those with a chronic health condition such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s, or stroke. Caregivers will come away with important skills, techniques and information. Each class builds upon previous ones, so we require attendance at all 6 sessions. Open to family caregivers in the SF Bay Area. Full info and registration here.  

• Caregivers Matter: A Conference for Family Caregivers — November 11. San Mateo County Caregivers Collaborative invites family caregivers to join them for a day of self-care, valuable resources and community connection. This free event includes light breakfast and lunch; interpretation will be available in Spanish and Mandarin. Download the event flyer in English, Spanish or Mandarin.

All classes are free. Bookmark our calendar to stay up to date on upcoming classes, webinars and events.

FCA IN THE COMMUNITY

We'll be hosting a resource table at the below health and aging events in our local communities — where we'll have informational materials, small goodies/giveaways and answers to all your questions about family caregiving! Come out and say hi!

• Oct 24, 9:30am - 2:30pm — Catholic Charities: Omi Senior Center Health and Educational Resource Fair, 65 Beverly St., San Francisco. Full info and registration here.

• Nov 2, 10am - 1pm — Rossmoor Health Fair, 1021 Stanley Dollar Dr., Walnut Creek. Full info and registration here.

For any questions about our community engagements, events or the in-services we offer to provider organizations, contact Julian Leus, our Community Engagement Specialist.

If you missed the Caregivers Count Conference in September, you can now watch the recordings online! Or feel free to pass this onto your caregiver patients or clients as a free resource. This popular annual event supports families and friends who care for a loved one, and features expert speakers as well as senior service agencies sharing information about local supportive services. Watch the recordings for 2023 and download the conference packet here. Here's a recap of the sessions:

• Sept 9, 2023 (Keynote): Making Tender Memories: How Family Caregivers Can Connect with Others and Replenish Themselves (Barry Jacobs, Psy.D., AARP)
• Sept 16, 2023: Anticipatory Grief (Dr. Janet Child, Centre for Living with Dying)
• Sept 23, 2023: Caring for Someone Who Didn't Care for You (Angela Dickson, MSW, CMC, Masonic Homes of California)
• Sept 30, 2023: Effective Communication with Medical Providers (Dr. Melinda Lantz, Mount Sinai Hospital)

We so appreciate the time and feedback many of you gave in answering our recent survey. We are committed to ensuring that this e-newsletter is valuable, informative and helpful to you, and your feedback is the best way to make that happen! Here's what we learned from your survey responses:

• This e-newsletter community comprises a range of professional roles. Subscribers here are all healthcare and human services providers, but serve in a variety of roles, including social workers, nurses, educators and education program managers, peer volunteers, caregiver support group leaders, and those in other clinical, social service and community service roles.

• You find this newsletter informative, relevant and helpful. We were delighted to learn that you find the content of this newsletter helpful — from the resources we provide and upcoming classes to updates on our work and our perspective on caregiver needs, challenges and experiences.



• You're likely to refer family caregivers to FCA. Our mission is to improve the lives of family caregivers and their care recipients so we couldn't be more pleased to hear that many of you refer your caregiver patients and clients to us for free support and assistance.

Your Questions Answered — We received some great questions and comments in the survey. We'd like to answer them here in a Q&A-style format:

• Question: I am a caregiver — can you provide more information on the basics of caregiving?
• Answer: We're so glad you found us! This e-newsletter, the Provider E-News Update, was created for health care and social services providers, so has content geared specifically for professional providers. If you're a caregiver, please sign up for our monthly Connections e-newsletter, which has information, news and resources created specifically for family and friend caregivers. And of course, explore our website for all kinds of resources, education, support and assistance.

• Question: Can you expand your resources and information outside the Bay Area?
• Answer: FCA was founded in and remains headquartered in San Francisco, so the Bay Area is where many of our deepest networks, knowledge base and partner relationships are. Our local work is centered in the six Bay Area counties (Contra Costa, San Mateo, Santa Clara, San Francisco, Marin and Alameda counties), which ensures we have a "finger on the pulse" to easily share news, resources and information to our local provider community (who often partner with us as well). That said, we do support family caregivers across the country — via CareNav, our free online tool that provides caregivers with personalized resources, our website, which is loaded with abundant resources, support and high-quality information, and our recently revamped Services By State tool, which provides caregivers in any state with resources in their local area.

If you want to share additional feedback, our survey is still open and we always welcome emails!

We respect your inbox, so we send our Provider e-News Update out every 1-2 months. But between issues, we are still hosting and sharing plenty of activities, classes, webinars and new resources for caregivers.

Stay in the know by following us on any or all of our social media channels — and be sure to share them with others who can benefit!

... and while you're here — sign up for our Connections e-newsletter (designed for family and friend caregivers), ¿Que Pasa? boletin (our e-newsletter for Spanish-speaking caregivers), and our Caregiving Policy Digest newsletter (caregiving policy at the local, national and international levels).