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 […]
Check out our full-page ad in Your Health 2017, a magazine just published by Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Communications for Western Nevada County. The ad describes how One Source-Empowering Caregivers is fulfilling a critical community need of providing free, non-medical respite care of loved ones so caregivers can take a break. Right now, we have […]
Before a carefully trained and vetted Volunteer Care Specialist is placed in a caregiving home, one or more Assessment Care Team nurses visit the home to establish a rapport with the caregiver and care recipient – and to match the appropriate Volunteer Care Specialist with the care recipient. Thanks to these dedicated nurses, One Source-Empowering […]
It’s been a long time coming, but this month, we are finally deploying our first class of Volunteer Care Specialists into caregiving homes in Nevada County! We are fielding 10 Volunteer Care Specialists, including OSEC Founder and Executive Director Donna Raibley. Two of our volunteers – Sue Flynn and Laura Detata – have stepped up to […]