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Okay, we'll call this meeting to order.

We'll have a roll call.

Tom Wolf.

Here.

Howie Broxton.

Here.

Liz Marks.

And me.

Here.

Do we have any review or supplemental reports?

None, I don't think.

Do we have approval for the regular minutes of April the second?

Meeting.

I second.

Thank you.

We have a presentation from uh Tiffany Walker.

I'm here.

Oh no.

Are you guys all ready?

We're ready for it.

Do you want to introduce yourself?

Yes, please.

I'm making sure my phones, all of them are on.

Um, so I am Tiffany Walker.

I'm the information and assistance program manager.

Um, okay, just see you in the audience.

Um, I'm with Providence, formerly Calabria Care.

I am co-located at Comprehensive Services for Older Adults, what we call CSOA.

Um, I've been in the community.

I can't believe it.

I've been in, I started out my internship nine years ago.

Um, so yeah, it's been it's been a journey.

Um, and I'm just here to really present to you guys on what's going on with the information assistance program as well as our aging and disabilities resource connection hub, which is what we're calling affectionately connections Napa County.

Um, and let me know.

You guys are all ready?

Ready?

I'm not ready to share my screen, but I do remember the number.

Um, I'm gonna kind of start at the beginning because I just don't know where everyone is, and it's kind of easier to do that a little bit.

Um, so with the help of many of you guys in the community, um, as well as our providers and partners, we did a so survey, and it was the NOAA survey.

You guys probably heard of it.

Um, and from that survey, a result came out that majority of the problems was seniors didn't know where to go get information.

Yes, we have this lovely information and assistance program, which were funded by the area agency on aging, but not everybody know it and knows what information assistance is.

So they were saying that it would be good to have kind of like a one-stop shop, but expanded so that they knew kind of like the AARP when you turn 50, you know to call them.

Um, how do we get seniors to know that once they hit a certain age, who to call in their community?

So California is doing a bunch of um trying to streamline things together and bridge us to talk a little more.

We know systems and programs and services don't always align and allow that, but at least through the county services, we could have something that's similar, and that's what the aging and disabilities resource connections or centers or hubs are called.

Um, of course, we're all kind of failing because in Napa County we like to use a lot of acronyms.

So ours, of course, would be ADRC, but I fought really hard against it.

I didn't want any more acronyms because uh by now you guys will probably need a dictionary for them.

So we're gonna call ours Connections Napa County, and right now, as it stands, we are emerging.

Um, as you guys know, May was older adults month, so we just had the proclamation from Napa County.

Jennifer Yasuboto was so kind to present that to us.

Um, and we launched our lovely website.

What we thought would be good, um, is what's happening now.

Of course, there's a sandwich generation known as also the baby boomers.

They now have to take care of their parents and grandkids, and they are a little more computer savvy than some of our seniors, and they might not necessarily know who to call, but they will look online.

So we thought we'll get ahead of this, we'll go ahead and create a website, make it a central location, um, and put as many resources as we can online and then put it on the providers that they got to keep it up to date.

It wouldn't be fair for us to keep it up to date, but also wouldn't be fair on everyone else to try to manage someone else's.

So we're hoping that this could be a community and a group effort um of keeping this website live and up to date.