reports that it just received a grant of $15,000 from the Firedoll Foundation. The grant supports the Center’s 24-hour homeless hotline and related homeless services. Additionally, 18 people recently completed its annual grief counseling training program and joined the Center’s grief counseling team. According to the Crisis Center, in fiscal year 2005-06 it answered 9,416 calls on its 24-hour homeless hotline. This was down 41 percent because at the start of the year, Contra Costa County officials stopped funding a centralized shelter intake system, that the Center had managed for 10 years. On the plus side, the reduced call volume enabled the Center to spend more time helping individual callers and so provide information about shelter, job training, health care, emergency food, transportation, legal assistance, and more to 5,971 people (up 65 percent).
You can donate to the Contra Costa Crisis Center online today! The Center also offers challenging and rewarding volunteer opportunities.
Kathy Brady, invites you to join or help sponsor her Concord-based BRADY BUNCH TEAM as they Walk to d’Feet ALS, at Lake Merritt in Oakland, on Sunday, 9/17. Kathy lost her Dad to ALS and helped form the Brady Bunch fundraising Team in the fight against a disease that can strike anyone. The Brady Bunch also holds a great local pasta feed in Walnut Creek in the Spring.
Every 90 minutes someone is diagnosed with ALS. You can volunteer or donate to help the Brady Bunch Team to D’Feet ALS online rght now! Just Click.