Housing That Heals
Meeting for the week of August 16, 2021 - August 22, 2021
This Meeting at a Glance:
Program: Housing That Heals
Speaker: Teresa Pasquini & Lauren Rettagliata
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Welcome to the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley!
Here’s a message from our Club President.
Brett Sham
President, Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley
president@siliconvalleyrotary.com
Guests, we are happy to have you join us this week!
As we see it, our flexibility as an online, asynchronous club allows a special type of service to Rotarians around the world: we make it easier for anyone to strive for and maintain 100% attendance. That keeps you engaged with Rotary's events and ideas, and provides a moment of inspiration for devoting your creativity, talents, and resources to good causes.
You are certainly not required to pay anything in order to attend our meetings. However, if you would like to make a small contribution to our service efforts, you are welcome to do so in our secure Happy Dollars section down the page. This could be what you normally pay at your own club's meetings for lunch, for example. Any amount is welcome, but first and foremost, we're happy you've joined us, and hope you will share with others who we are and what we do to help inspire Service Above Self.
And don't forget to fill out our attendance form so you get an email you can pass on to your club's secretary!
The Four Way Test
The Four-Way Test is a nonpartisan and nonsectarian ethical guide for Rotarians to use for their personal and professional relationships.
Of the things we think, say or do
Is it the TRUTH?
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
Weekly Funny with Shags.
We believe laughter is an important part of life, and we should all make time to laugh a little. This segment of our meeting is meant to tickle you just enough. These funnies are curated by member Steven "Shags" Shagrin !
Not That Kind of a Bar...
One Saturday evening a man walked into a bar and said, "Excuse me, I would like a pint of beer." The bartender served the man his drink and said, "That will be four dollars." The customer pulled out a twenty-dollar bill and handed it to the bartender.
"Sorry, sir," the bartender said, "but I can't accept that."
So the man pulls out a ten-dollar bill, and the bartender rejects his money again. "What's going on here?" the puzzled man asked the barkeep.
Pointing to a neon sign behind the bar, the bartender explained, "This is a Singles Bar."
Weekly Inspiration
Every week we start our meetings with a short video highlighting innovation, inspiration, entrepreneurship, or social change.
This week, let's see if a Japanese cell phone company (DoCoMo) commercial might inspire us. At the very least, it'll be a quick hit of culture and natural beauty for anyone who's been in one too many Zoom meetings the last few days.
Through a Rotarian's Lens
Sometimes a photo can capture an amazing moment. In this section Member Keith Marsh shares his incredible photography!
If you'd like to submit a photo for this section please contact Keith.
During our International Rotary Water project to Kenya in 2019 with H2OpenDoors, we spent several days on safari in the Maasi Mara. This old lion shows the scares of many battles. I feel like this some days.
Learn Something New
This section is curated by members Shags Shagrin and aims to teach our members and guests something new, fun, and useful! If you have any ideas on a fun trick or skill you'd like to share please contact Shags.
How do they make it?!?
Watching a Mirror get Made! Reflect on this (ha ha)...
Service Report
Tell us about service you’ve done recently in your community.
Click here to fill out The Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley Service Survey
Our Events & Projects
We hold our meetings online, but we do regular service projects and social events in the Silicon Valley! The section is updated every week with our upcoming events. We welcome guests to all of the events and service projects listed here.
Upcoming Events:
All times are Pacific Time! (San Francisco time)
District 5170 Events
All times are Pacific Time! (San Francisco time)
More events coming soon! All events are open to guests, unless otherwise mentioned. Feel free to join us! If you ever have questions, please email inquiries@siliconvalleyrotary.com
Happy Dollars: Do Good by Sharing Something Good
Each week we ask our members to share stories with the club and toss in a few dollars to support our efforts. The primary goal of this section is to provide a fun way of getting to know each fellow members and guests, while giving back to a good cause.
Happy dollars is an opportunity to share something positive that has happened in your life whether it is personal or business. Think of it as your opportunity to brag a little, but also put a little bit into a karma jar. The money donated through happy dollars is put to charitable use, and the message that you leave for happy dollars will be posted in our online meeting the following week for the entire week for folks to see! (Pending that it’s appropriate!)
Here are the happy dollars contributions from last week!
This section is usually updated in the early hours of Saturday, so contributions made over the weekend may not be listed here.
Rory Olsen made a $20 donation.
Please apply my gift to Polio Plus. The weather has been warm all week. Jazzmine is happy!
Program: Housing That Heals
Speaker: Charlie Ruth Castro
Every week we bring to you a new program on innovation, entrepreneurship, and education, and how those contribute to service to others.
The Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley seeks to explore perspectives on service from across the world. The views of the speakers in our programs are their own, and unless stated otherwise, are not necessarily reflective of the views of our eClub nor Rotary International.
If you have an idea for a cool speaker, please feel free to reach out to them directly or submit THIS FORM so our Program Committee can contact them!
Teresa Pasquini is a California mom on a mission to reform local, state, and federal mental health systems. As a nine-year member of the Contra Costa County Mental Health Commission, she was an outspoken champion for the most vulnerable (and often forgotten) population with serious mental illnesses. She is a long-time member of National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Contra Costa. As a family member of a son and brother living with serious mental illness, her 45-year personal experience drives her current passion for "Housing That Heals," the name of a white paper released in May 2020.
Lauren Rettagliata is also a California mom on a mission with a passion for housing vulnerable populations. She has a long history with non-profit housing in a variety of states where her family lived before returning to the Bay Area. She chaired the Contra Costa Mental Health Commission as a family member representative and is a NAMI Contra Costa member. She coined the term "Housing That Heals" in a call to action in Contra Costa back in 2016. She is co-author of the Housing That Heals white paper released in May 2020.
The Housing That Heals story is a call to action that encourages policymakers and community partners to think beyond the Housing First model and focus first on building a continuum of care for those who live with a serious mental illness. Housing That Heals is a prevention and intervention plan that will help flatten the harm curve by providing the right care at the right time and in the right place.
Members and guests, please welcome Teresa Pasquini and Lauren Rettagliata!
Learn more about their work:
The Housing That Heals white paper: https://hth.ttinet.com/Housing_That_Heals_2020.pdf
FB page: https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=housing%20that%20heals
Upcoming Program Recording Schedule
All of our guest speakers and programs are recorded live online over Zoom video conference. We welcome members and guests to join us in one of these upcoming recordings. Recordings are approximately 30 minutes long and are subject to change without notice.
Our online video conference room link for these recordings is always http://zoom.siliconvalleyrotary.com/. You are welcome to join us! Please note the timezone listed for all recordings is US Pacific Time (San Francisco, California, USA).
If you can’t join the live recording, please send your questions for an upcoming speaker to programs@siliconvalleyrotary.com.
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