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NO MORE PAIN LEARN ABOUT OUR REGENERATIVE TREATMENTS FOR CHRONIC JOINT CONDITIONS AND TAKE BACK CONTROL FROM PAIN www.trilogymedical.net Soquel: (831) 600-8117 4105 Soquel Drive Watsonville: (831) 724-1164 65 Aspen Way Elderday Adult Day Health Care Lift Line Senior Center Without Limits Learn more at / Obtenga más información en www.CommunityBridges.org or call/ o llame (831) 688-8840 Day services for adults with complex medical conditions Servicios de dia para adultos con condiciones médicas complejas Transportation to medical appointments Transporte a citas médicas Online classes and workshops Clases y talleres virtuales This is the new normal By Raymon Cancino, CEO Community Bridges Signs of normalcy are beginning to creep back in to our daily lives. Like most of our neighbors, our Community Bridges' family is celebrating the small victories: gatherings with family, more hugs, and more smiling faces. Also like most of our com- munity, we are grappling with what "normal" looks like moving forward. Some of our programs provide healthcare, in those facilities if we don't know the vaccine status of the individuals we are serving we are continuing to ask all our clients to wear masks. The same rule will apply in our child care facilities – at least for now. For human service organizations, the huge increase in demand for our services is not likely to completely recede as the pandemic comes to an end. In human service organizations, this level of demand is likely to be our new normal. In Santa Cruz County, the percentage of our population living below poverty level is higher than the national average. At 14.3%, the population of those in need is higher in this county than in neighboring Monterey, San Mateo, or Santa Clara counties. This means more people in our community will need our support to get back on their feet. You might have heard an unusual term when referring to the post-pan- demic economic recovery – some people are calling it "k-shaped." What that really means is that peo- ple who were just hang- ing on will have a harder time recovering from the economic impacts of the pandemic. They'll be on the "bottom" leg of the k. While those who were already doing well, will have a much easier time thriving as things restart. They'll be on the top leg. It's serving those people who find themselves struggling to get back to where they were finan- cially that affect what our "new" normal looks like at Community Bridges. Before the pandemic, Meals on Wheels, Santa Cruz County – a Program of Community Bridges – provided roughly 160,000 meals per year. Since the start of the pandemic, and the addition of a breakfast meal, Meals on Wheels served more than 360,000 meals. It's hard to see that num- ber getting back to where it was in February 2020 for quite some time. At Community Bridges, we have long said that "Together, Anything is Possible." So we are looking forward to com- ing back together, again to begin addressing these challenges. In August, we will host our annual Farm to Fork Gala and Auction. The funds this event helps to raise allow us to be nimble. When pop-up vaccination support is needed, Community Bridges is able to be there – in part because of your support for these special events. In the fall, we will be gathering for Moun- tain Affair in the San Lorenzo Valley where we hope to celebrate the resiliency of a commu- nity that faced so many tests in the last year and continues to be there for one another. We'll close out the year with "Food From the Heart" at Chaminade – our annual Meals on Wheels luncheon. The volunteers and our team did truly heroic work during this past year. These small acts of love ensured that the signif- icant increase in food insecurity among seniors could be addressed. We hope you'll join us in honoring them. The after-effects of the pandemic from economic anxiety to mental health trauma are only now revealing themselves. We know there will be challenges. But at Community Bridges we still believe – Together, Anything is Possible. We hope you'll join us – communitybridges.org. Del Mar Caregiver Resource Center A Program of Health Projects Center By Del Mar Caregiver Resource Center HPC's Del Mar Caregiv- er Resource Center (CRC) supports family caregivers to provide quality care to their loved ones and take better care of their own physical and mental health. CRC is part of a state-wide network pro- viding supportive services to family caregivers of those living with cognitive impairments. Family consultants work with clients to increase caregiving knowledge and skills, to build caregiver confidence, to strengthen emotional well-being and coping abilities and to bridge so- cial connections linking families to community services. Through CRC, caregiv- ers are provided services such as personalized caregiver assessments, one- on-one family con- sultation services, consul- tations with an elder law attorney, support groups, workshops, conferences, online education and paid respite care. CRC provides free and low-cost services to individuals responsible for the care of a family member living with an adult-onset neurological disorder. All families are welcome, including ex- tended kinship networks and families of choice. Individuals are eligible for services regardless of income and resident status. Respite services ,planned or emergen- cy temporary care provided to caregivers include a sliding scale co-pay fee. All other Del Mar CRC services are at no cost. Caregivers can re- ceive support at https:// delmar.cacrc.org/login and by joining Care- Nav online. By joining CareNav, caregivers will be asked a brief set of questions that lead to a personal dashboard loaded with information that matches individual caregiving needs, such as: • Fact and tip sheets, videos, online classes and support • Caregiving resources nationally and by state • Access to a skilled Family Consultant • Dashboard to track information and find support The Del Mar Caregiver Resource Center hosts bilingual Spanish pro- gramming through it's own Caregiver Univer- sity which is a program that provides education and support to family caregivers on subjects such as Dementia, Home Safety, Grief, Caregiving through the holidays and more. Visit www. delmarcaregiver.org to receive their monthly online newsletter to be informed of Caregiver University and other programming events.