Please enjoy our September Edition of Caminar Connections, our monthly newsletter.
IN CONCERT WITH CAMINAR ON 10.10.20 - REGISTER NOW!
Please join us on October 10, 2020 for the 10th annual In Concert with Caminar. This exciting, hour-long virtual event will benefit the Caminar Mental Health Regional Response Fund.
Back by popular demand, Dave Clark of KTVU-TV will be our emcee and Sheléa will delight with a musical performance.
Click here for more information and to register!
CAMINAR MENTAL HEALTH REGIONAL RESPONSE FUND
There’s a dramatic increase in need for mental health and substance use services as a result of the pandemic. The Caminar Mental Health Regional Response Fund was established to fund crucial mental health services for Bay Area families and adults who are in crisis. The next six months are critical — we must raise an additional $500,000 to continue to serve our suffering neighbors in a safe environment. Will you join us? Please read more here.
IN THE COMMUNITY
We are pleased to partner with The Daily Journal for a virtual health fair on Tuesday, September 8, 2020, from 10 am until 12 pm.
The health fair will include COVID-19 updates, community resources, and mental health education — including remarks by Mark Cloutier, our CEO, who will discuss ways to stay emotionally healthy during this stressful time.
CORPORATE SUPPORT
The community investments team from Bank of America, a generous grant partner, selected our LGBTQ Youth Space for their Student Leaders summer program for high school interns. Although social distancing prohibited engaging the interns at the Youth Space (a community resource for San Jose’s LGBTQ and ally youth and young adults ages 13-25), in July, we hosted these gifted young people for a virtual tour and meaningful dialog. We are honored by this partnership and welcome future intern placement in our Youth Space.
We are celebrating a renewal of a grant from The Janssen Foundation for Jobs Plus, our program that identifies jobs and vocational training opportunities for clients with behavioral health conditions. People will need access to jobs more than ever before due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and Janssen Foundation’s grant allows us to continue this important work. The Janssen Pharmaceuticals Corporation was recently acquired by Johnson & Johnson, and we are delighted their grantmaking team is still investing in our local community.
We received a particularly timely and greatly appreciated in-kind donation of 20 Meraki internet security appliances from Cisco Systems, Inc. to help Caminar protect our organization’s data and prevent attacks on our servers. With this significant product donation, we have substantially increased our IT systems security and saved nearly $40,000 in capital/equipment expenses.
WHY I SUPPORT CAMINAR
“I donate to help people make it through dark times in their lives and to help those who help them.”
- A recent Caminar donor
