Tom Durkin Special to The Union April 16, 2018 “Your brothers need you!” is George Grist’s call to action to western Nevada County men. Approximately 53 percent of Nevada County home-care recipients are men, yet 83 percent of their 24/7 caregivers are women and 90 percent of Volunteer Care Specialists certified by One Source-Empowering Caregivers […]
We are proud to congratulate our second class of Volunteer Care Specialists! Fourteen women and one man graduated Saturday, May 6, 2017. Meet our new volunteers here!
THANK YOU TO VOLUNTEERS April is Volunteer Appreciation Month, and we want to share the names of the volunteers who make One Source – Empowering Caregivers a force for positive change in our community. Thank you, Volunteers! (https://youtu.be/mZm1K75Xddc)
Thursday, April 20, 2017, Mary Jo Sweeney (R) of Soroptimist International of the Sierra Foothills presented a $1,300 check to Donna Raibley (middle ), executive director of One Source-Empowering Caregivers (OSEC). Raibley was accompanied by OSEC Volunteer Coordinator Harriet Totten and Volunteer Care Specialist Deborah Rousseau (who is standing behind Raibley in the picture). In […]
In an April 11, 2017 interview Donna Raibley and Deborah Rousseau talk with Charlotte Peterson of KVMR community radio about One Source – Empowering Caregivers and the need for volunteers to sign up the upcoming training for Volunteer Care Specialists. This is a radio interview embellished with a video track: https://youtu.be/7PgoHs0oRS8
In an April 11, 2017 interview Donna Raibley and Deborah Rousseau talk with Charlotte Peterson of KVMR community radio about One Source – Empowering Caregivers and the need for volunteers to sign up the upcoming training for Volunteer Care Specialists. This is a radio interview embellished with a video track: https://youtu.be/7PgoHs0oRS8
[ Thank you to the Nevada City Advocate for being part of the solution!
Become part of an elite team of Volunteer Care Specialists. Check out this video slideshow of last year’s training, and sign up for our spring training starting April 22. Have a heart. Give a full-time caregiver a “care free” four-hour break a week.
Have you considered becoming a Volunteer Care Specialist for One Source – Empowering Caregivers? Find out everything you need to know in this interview of Executive Director Donna Raibley by KNCO’s Rita Stevens. To volunteer, call Donna at 530-205-9514 or 530-802-6154 or write draibley@empoweringcaregivers.org. An application form is on our website at https://empoweringcaregivers.org/volunteer/. Training starts April […]
“Trapped. I’m homebound too,” is how Jane Bartley of Rough and Ready described her situation. She is caring 24/7 for her husband, a Vietnam veteran suffering from dementia and PTSD. That all changed last month when Volunteer Care Specialist Deborah Rousseau arrived for the first of weekly visits to relieve Bartley of caregiving duties for […]