Community Building with Seniors in Mind
Wed, Jun 29
|Speaker Series Online
Isolation for seniors is a major challenge in the Truckee Meadows. Join us as we learn more about a national program, the BUILD Health Challenge, and how local organizations have participated to keeping this important demographic included in our community.
Time & Location
Jun 29, 2022, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM PDT
Speaker Series Online
About the Event
We invite you to join The HELLO Project, Truckee Meadows Tomorrow, Washoe County Health Department and Renown Health for a presentation of the work that has been done the past three years in conjunction with the BUILD Health Challenge Grant. We will be presenting on our key initiatives around the prevalence of suicidality, social isolation and loneliness among seniors in our community and how we hope to engage the community to continue this amazing work.
Speakers include:
Erica Mirich: CEO of Truckee Meadows Tomorrow
Kelly Glenn: HELLO Project/BUILD Health Challenge Director
Joe Dibble: Health Educator II, Community & Clinical Health Services, Washoe County Health District
Nicole Lamboley: CEO of the Food Bank of Northern Nevada
Dena Schmidt: Administrator, NV Department of Health & Human Services Aging and Disability Services Division
June 29th Lunchtime WatchParty @ 12 noon on the Nevada Tomorrow YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/39X2Gqb
RSVP appreciated but NOT required!
Hosted and Moderated by Erica Mirich, Executive Director of Truckee Meadows Tomorrow
This speaker series is made possible by the generous support of Microsoft, Washoe County Health District, Washoe Education Association and Renown Health.
Get informed by checking out the Nevada Tomorrow Community Data Exchange. Learn about this free, dynamic, easy to use, one-stop digital resource for access to community quality of life data. There you will find up-to-date demographic, education, environmental, economic, health, social determinant and equity data that highlights trends, challenges and opportunities in our Nevada communities; hundreds of maps, tables and figures and promising practices.
We hope to see you there!