Upcoming Events
Tour of the County Emergency Operations Center
March 23, 2023 at 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
You are invited to visit the state-of-the-art Santa Barbara County Emergency Operations Center located at 4408 Cathedral Oaks Road. You will be given a private tour of the facility by Fire Chief, Mark Hartwig and Director, County OEM Director Kelly Hubbard. You will hear from these professionals about the emergency notification system from the point of the initial 911 call, the importance of the mutual aid system, the use of mapping an incident to the notification of at risk individuals, the use of technology to monitor an emergency and much more. There will be time for questions as well.
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Past Events
2023
Caregivers: How to Get ’em, How to Keep ’em, How to Support ’em
February 23, 2023 at 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
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Gray Panthers Santa Barbara Network Annual Meeting
January 25, 2023 at 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Gray Panthers Members and Friends,
You are invited to the Gray Panthers Santa Barbara Network Annual Meeting to be held via Zoom on Wednesday, January 25 at 5:00 p.m. At the meeting, members will elect our officers (chair, recording secretary, membership secretary, and treasurer) as well as the Board of Directors, some for a one-year term and others for a two-year term. Let us know immediately if you are interested in serving as an officer or member of the Board so we may include you in the election process. If interested, please email info@sbgraypanthers.org with your contact information and a statement about why you are interested in serving. We welcome your input on issues you would like the Gray Panthers to address in the coming months. Our policies can be found on our webpage at: www.sbgraypanthers.org.
To participate in the Annual Meeting, you will need to register in advance by using this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/
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2022
Gray Panthers Event: The Wisdom of Elders
June 13, 2022 at 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Join us in person or over zoom for our event, The Wisdom of Elders where four of our wise community members Pravrajika Vrajaprana, David Moore, Lois Capps, and Steve Cohen will be sharing their pearls of wisdom.
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2021
WHO IS SCAMMING YOU NOW? – COVID-19 and Current Scams, a Financial Pandemic
November 8, 2021 at 5:00 pm
This free forum will be of interest to seniors, as well as their family members and care givers, in addressing such issues as:
- The use of fear, isolation and desperate need to trick victims
- Current scams in Santa Barbara County and nation-wide
- What to do to avoid being scammed
- Fraud prevention and intervention
- Victim support
Featured Speaker:
Vicki Johnson, Senior Deputy District Attorney
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Pills or No Pills, that is the Question: how best to improve the quality of life for seniors
September 14, 2021 at 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Featured Speaker: Dr. Camille Hunter, CEO of Coastal Geriatrics
This forum will be of interest to seniors, as well as their family members and care givers, in addressing such issues as:
- Newer approaches to senior wellness
- Inappropriate prescription use in the older population: when too many medications in combination become problematic
- ‘Goals of care’ impact decisions about independent living, discussions with family about end-of-life issues (such as advanced directives), and issues of basic health maintenance such as mammograms or statins
- Maximizing quality of life now: the importance of exercise, diet, and social contact
Given possible risks involved with the highly contagious Delta variant of Covid-19, we have decided to make this forum, like our previous ones, Zoomed. Please register here and we will send you a Zoom link shortly before the forum.
Meeting Recording
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Forum on Gender: How Much Has Changed Since We Were Young(er)!!!
June 29, 2021 at 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Kristin Flickinger, J.D., Executive Director, Pacific Pride Foundation and Marian Shapiro, MSW, Retired SBCC Instructor of The Psychology of Human Sexuality
This forum was another success, with over 50 folks attending. Here is a link to watch it online; you can also see the questions and comments participants added during the program. Enjoy!
Meeting Recording
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Forum on California legislation affecting seniors
April 27, 2021 at 5:00 pm
Featuring our State Senator Monique Limón and Assemblymember Steve Bennet
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Covid-19 Vaccination Rollout
February 8, 2021 at 4:30 pm
Zoom Forum on the Covid-19 vaccination rollout: What’s Working and What’s Not? Featuring Dr. Peggy Dodds, County Public Health Officer and Jan Koegler, County Public Health Emergency Preparedness Manager.
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