NJ Caregivers Coalition Online Resources
Virtual Educational Events:
On August 11, the United Way of Northern New Jersey hosted a Zoom Munch and Learn Caregivers Coalition Virtual Meeting. The presentation was titled, “The Courage and Choices of Caregiving and the Nurturing of It All.” The presenter was Leah J. Rowbotham, a caregiver and faculty associate in Gerontology, Behavioral Health and Community at Seton Hall University. Leah also runs weekly senior women groups in Montclair on writing and on women and aging.
The presentation helped provide the participants with the tools to accomplish the following:
1. Re-define the meaning of courage
2. Be more cognizant of their own creative power
3. Recognize several of their current needs
4. Find five potential interventions to address these needs
5. Use critical and creative thinking to design a realistic plan for more effective self-nurturing
For Information regarding the next virtual Munch & Learn presentation please contact:
Stephanie Howland, MSW, LSW
Manager, United Way Caregivers Coalition
United Way of Northern New Jersey
PO Box 6835, Bridgewater, NJ 08807
Ph: 973.993.1160, x534
Stephanie.Howland@UnitedWayNNJ.org
Caregiver Coalition presentations are done via Zoom, a straightforward app that can be downloaded onto your laptop, phone, iPad, or other smart devices quickly and for free. For those of you who are new to this technology, here is a link for a Zoom tutorial that you can click on to learn how it works, https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/206618765-Zoom-Video-Tutorials
To attend these Zoom virtual meetings, you need to preregister. Click on this registration link, and you will be able to sign up. You will then receive an email with instructions on how to open the Zoom meeting link. We suggest that you sign in to the meeting 5 minutes early. You will be placed in the waiting room, and the host will let you in.
ALICE Recovery Fund (#ALICErecovery)
ALICE® (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed) helps households and those in poverty due to the spread of COVID-19 in our region. The ALICE Recovery Fund proivdes direct services to ALICE families in need, coordination of recovery efforts and volunteers, and costs related to building infrastructure needs and advocacy to address the long-term impact of this crisis. At this time, The ALICE Recovery Fund is not accepting additional applications due to the high volume of requests and the available funding having been exceeded. If additional funds become available we will process completed applications in the order they were received to help meet the needs of the 1,100 applications that have already been submitted. To date, we have helped 569 ALICE families with $800,000 in grants! You can still help by donating at www.UnitedWayNNJ.org/ALICErecovery.
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