1/15 MLK Day - Valentine Card Making for Elders and Chat about Ageism (Virtual)  Get Connected Icon

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Description

Create Valentine cards for elders, while engaging in meaningful discussion about ageism impacting older adults in our society: how stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination about age affect elders. 

Contact Volunteer Program Supervisor, Jessica, at jessicac@fulllifecare.org for more information. 

Join an interactive Zoom meeting with staff and volunteers from the non-profit Full Life Care, a network of health and social services serving elders and adults with disabilities from diverse low-income backgrounds throughout Seattle and the greater King County area.  

  • Use your own supplies to handmake inspirational Valentine cards (that can be mailed or dropped off weekdays in person at our nonprofit's South Seattle office), which will be distributed to older adults in our ElderFriends program, who have self-identified as being lonely or isolated, and older adults in our Care Teams program, which supports caregivers of seniors and veterans 
  • Engage in discussing different definitions and examples of ageism from personal/professional experience 
  • Help us brainstorm different perspectives and ways we can help clear up misconceptions about ageism moving forward  

Time: Join our preset time on Monday, 1/15/24 @ 4pm - 5pm, or suggest an alternate time of your choice 

Details

Get Connected Icon Q: How will you raise awareness of - and reflect on - the role of racial and social justice within the volunteer project?
A: By engaging participants in a community chat on ageism, we will help emphasize group reflection on the purpose of volunteering and focus on our low income senior population being served. We'll engage in discussing different definitions and examples of ageism from personal/professional experience, and brainstorm together about different perspectives and ways we can help clear up misconceptions about ageism moving forward.
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