Events Calendar
- October 4, 2010 - Monday
- Mortgage Help Day
- Location: South Seattle Community College, Brockey Conference Center
- Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Meet directly with lenders and housing counselors. Learn about the foreclosure process. Help prevent future foreclosures and remedy the foreclosure crisis.
You Should Come If You:- Are worried about making your next house payment
- Are currently delinquent in your mortgage
- Have received a foreclosure notice
- Are considering bankruptcy to avoid foreclosure
Childcare and translation services provided. For more information: 206.694.6794
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- October 9, 2010 - Saturday
- Advisory Council Outreach & Advocacy Committee Meeting
- Location: Seattle Municipal Tower, 40th Floor, Room 4050
- Time: 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
- The joint meeting of the Outreach & Advocacy Committee and the Health Care Task Force. For more information contact Doug Ricker @ 206-684-0292.
- ADS Advisory Council Meeting
- Location: Seattle Municipal Tower, 40th Floor, Room 4050
- Time: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
- Contact Gigi Meinig @ 206-684-0652 for more information.
- October 12, 2010 - Tuesday
- Statewide Gathering of Area Agencies on Aging (AAA) Advisory Councils and the State Council on Aging (SCOA)
- Location: Tukwila Community Center
- Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
- All members of the Area Agency on Aging Advisory Councils and the State Council on Aging are invited to this annual opportunity to meet one another and share accomplishments and visions. Information on national health care reform and its implications for Washington State and our current long term care system will be shared. Afternoon workshops will build on this theme. The day ends with a discussion of shared priorities for the upcoming legislative session. This event is free to all AAA Advisory Council members and SCOA members. AAA Advisory Council members should contact your local AAA to register.
- October 13, 2010 - Wednesday
- 2010 Senior Lobby Annual Fall Conference
- Location: Doubletree Hotel, Sea-Tac
- Time: 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
- Annual conference sponsored by the Washington State Senior Citizens Lobby. This year the focus of the conference will cover topics such as: Health Care Implementation, Medicare, State Budget Issues and Initiatives. The agenda will include several well known speakers and morning and afternoon forums.
- October 14, 2010 - Thursday
- Operation Frontline Cooking Demos
- Location: Central Area Senior Center, 500 30th Ave S, Seattle
- Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
- Each of these fun cooking classes will feature an easy, tasty, low cost and healthy recipe using seasonal produce. There will be a sample-size–tasting of the recipe. Learn tipss for how to cook for one, how to cook vegetables in the microwave (and make them taste good) and other topics. The classes will be lead by a local chef volunteer. These classes are designed for everyone, including people with Diabetes. Please call the Central Area Senior Center (CASC) @ 206-726-4926 to register. Space is limited.
- October 15, 2010 - Friday
- Mayor's Council on African American Elders (MCAAE)
- Location: Seattle Municipal Tower, Room 5190
- Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
- Monthly meeting for the Mayor's Council on African American Elders (MCAAE). For more information contact Karen Winston @ 206-684-0706.
- October 19, 2010 - Tuesday
- Housing Washington Conference
- Location: Greater Tacoma Convention and Trade Center
Explore ways of Reaching the Pivotal Point for recovery for affordable housing in Washington state as we focus on the new realities of affordable housing and strategies for navigating the future.
Recognized as a leading regional resource, Housing Washington annually attracts the largest number of people working within the affordable housing industry under one roof, including:
- Affordable housing advocates
- Architects and planners
- City councils/local planning commissions
- Consumers of subsidized housing
- Housing authorities
- Legislators
- Lending industry
- Neighborhood groups
- Nonprofit housing organizations
- Professional associations
- Public agencies
- Residential builders and developers
- Sustainable development experts
- Tenants/housing consumers
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- Creating Aging Friendly Communities: Environmental and Policy Change for Healthy Aging
- Location: On-line Conference Series, Sept. 2010 - Jan. 2011
A new conference series in Creating Aging-Friendly Communities called ''Environmental & Policy Change for Healthy Aging'' is being offered by the CDC Healthy Aging Research Network. Participate right from your computer to access online presentations, webinars, and resources.
Do you work in the field of aging services, public health, planning, architecture, engineering, recreation, transportation, or health care? Do you want to become more effective in planning and implementing environmental and policy change? Sign up now at http://www.icohere.com/EPC/EPCKeepMeInformed.htm to receive registration information.
This initiative aims to build capacity for change and offers a variety of opportunities for learning, sharing, and networking. It features four online modules, scheduled September 2010 through January 2011, each module covering an essential topic in healthy aging. The conference series begins on September 28, 2010. Every module begins with a pre-recorded presentation that introduces key concepts for the module topic. This presentation is followed in two weeks by an interactive webinar. Two days following the webinar, the module offers a moderated online conversation.
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- October 20, 2010 - Wednesday
- Housing Washington Conference
- Location: Greater Tacoma Convention and Trade Center
Explore ways of Reaching the Pivotal Point for recovery for affordable housing in Washington state as we focus on the new realities of affordable housing and strategies for navigating the future.
Recognized as a leading regional resource, Housing Washington annually attracts the largest number of people working within the affordable housing industry under one roof, including:
- Affordable housing advocates
- Architects and planners
- City councils/local planning commissions
- Consumers of subsidized housing
- Housing authorities
- Legislators
- Lending industry
- Neighborhood groups
- Nonprofit housing organizations
- Professional associations
- Public agencies
- Residential builders and developers
- Sustainable development experts
- Tenants/housing consumers
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- Living a Healthy Life Technical Assistance Conference
- Location: Tukwila Community Center
- Time: 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
DSHS Aging and Disability Administration and the Washington State Department of Health Diabetes Prevention and Control Program and Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Progra are planning a Chronic Disease Self Management Program (CDSMP) Technical Assistance conference.
People from a variety of organizations are invited to share their experiences and expertise, and help continue to disseminate and sustain CDSMP programming. The goal is to bring together 100 attendees including our grant partners, host organizations, Master Trainers, Lay Leaders, and non-grant CDSMP providers from across the state and potential interested CDSMP organizations or individuals.For additional information on this evidence based chronic disease self-management program for older adults please visit the Living Well in Washington website http://livingwell.doh.wa.gov and the Stanford Patient Education Resource Center http://patienteducation.stanford.edu who developed the CDSMP materials.
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- Aging Your Way: Conversations for Community Change
- Location: Northgate Community Center, 10510 5th Ave NE, Seattle
- Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
- Baby Boomers and other younger-thinking older adults are already re-designing their communities to support them as they age. Senior Services is bringing community gatherings to neighborhoods around King County.
Join us at an event in your neighborhood to develop your vision and ideas, and work on implementing them! Jim Diers, community development expert and professional facilitator, leads participants in identifying what they care about and creating their vision of what their community will need to look like. Action teams are formed and people are empowered to use their skills, knowledge and passion to make their vision a reality. - View More Information
- October 21, 2010 - Thursday
- ADS Sponsors Meeting
- ADS Sponsors meet on third Thursday of the month. Contact Jane Crum at 206-684-0648 for information on meeting time and location.
- Northwest Universal Design Council
- Location: Weber Thompson Offices, 225 Terry Ave N, Seattle 98109
- Time: 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
- The Northwest Universal Design Council meets quarterly on the third Thursdays of January, April, July and October. Council meetings are open to the public. For more information about upcoming meetings see News & Events event section of the NWUDC web site: environmentsforall.org.
Meeting agendas will also be sent to subscribers of the NWUDC email list. - Coffee Hour @ the Mayor's Office for Senior Citizens
- Location: Central Building, 810 3rd Avenue (downtown Seattle between Columbia & Marion)
- Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
- Featuring Sally Clark, Seattle City Council. The Mayor's Office for Senior Citizens Coffee Hour series brings older adults and City decision makers closer together to discuss issues of mutual concern. Dates and speakers subject to change.
Call 206-684-0500 for more information.
- October 22, 2010 - Friday
- Pain Management: Front Line Pharmacological and Behavioral Strategies
- Location: Bell Harbor International Conference Center, Pier 66, Seattle
- The 3rd Annual John Loeser Pain Conference. Topics include: overview of pain; trends in pain management; patient-provider communication; behavioral skills; opioid management strategies; and addiction evaluation.
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- October 28, 2010 - Thursday
- Overcoming Barriers: Vulnerable Adult Abuse Conference
- Location: Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission, 19010 First Ave S, Burien
- Sponsored by the King County Prosecutors Office, the 7th annual event features Bonnie Brandl of the National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life (NCALL), and Marie-Therese Connolly, Senior Scholar at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Former Coordinator of Justice Department’s Elder Justice and Nursing Home Initiative.
For more information, please contact Cyndee Cavanah at 206-296-8797. - View More Information
- October 29, 2010 - Friday
- Overcoming Barriers: Vulnerable Adult Abuse Conference
- Location: Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission, 19010 First Ave S, Burien
Sponsored by the King County Prosecutors Office, the 7th annual event features Bonnie Brandl,Senior Project Coordinator for the National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life (NCALL), and Marie-Therese Connolly, Senior Scholar at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Former Coordinator of Justice Department’s Elder Justice and Nursing Home Initiative.
For more information, please contact Cyndee Cavanah at 206-296-8797.
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