THROUGH THE UNITED WAY OF THE BAY AREA'S 2-1-1 PROGRAM
July 14, 2022
Earlier today, the San Francisco Interfaith Council (SFIC) hosted the 83rd in a series of online briefings for faith leaders. Today's briefing featured a presentation by the United Way of the Bay Area's 2-1-1 Program Director Clare Margason. This confidential, free and easy-to-remember phone number connects callers with health and human services in their community. It is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in over 150 languages. Responding to the presentation and posing questions was SF CARD (Community Agencies Responding to Disaster) Program Manager Heather Lee.
SF CARD (Community Agencies Responding to Disaster) has updated the Emergency Planning Guides for Community Based Organizations and Houses of Worship. These Guides are excellent templates for starting a life and safety planning guide for your community. SF CARD and partner agencies in the Bay Area also offer free to the public training seminars on these and related topics to help your CBO or FBO be better prepared to respond and recover from disaster. Information is available on the SF CARD website: see Resources for the Guides and see Opportunities for seminars.
Also participating were Zoom Briefing Moderator/SFIC Executive Director Michael Pappas, SFIC Board Chair & Senior Minister of the First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco Rev. Vanessa Rush Southern. Special appreciation is extended to SFIC Program/Administrative Associate Cynthia Zamboukos and Enceladus Event Production and Consulting principal Tre Russell Allen.
