Events, Trainings & Conferences
Village Movement California hosts a variety of events, from webinars to our annual conference, throughout the year. We also share important statewide events that are of benefit to our village community. Past events and recordings, when available, can be accessed at the bottom of this page.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Medicare Wants to Keep You Healthy! Know Your Preventive Benefits & Ways to Reduce Costs
Thursday, January 23, 10:00 AM
In this webinar, you’ll learn how to take advantage of Medicare’s preventive benefits and reduce your prescription drug costs. Tatiana Fassieux, our Education and Training Specialist, will review Medicare’s expansion of preventive benefits and programs to reduce Medicare costs, such as the Part D Extra Help and Medicare Savings Programs. There will also be an update on current Medicare fraud and scams. Presenters: Tatiana Fassieux, California Health Advocates and staff member of California Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP)
Register for free at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aMaLePZ2S1i6CoV0tIQvyQ#/registration
National Village Day
Saturday, February 15
Villages create opportunities to help thousands older adults thrive in their homes and connected to their communities. Join us in celebrating and promoting our statewide movement and your village’s impact!
Ways to participate:
- Share your village’s story on social media – use our social media toolkit
- Incorporate National Village Day into planned events
- Connect with local media and elected officials and invite them to events
Together, we can expand this movement to benefit more seniors across the nation. With more recognition for villages comes more opportunities for funding, and millions more older adults.
Village Accelerator Launch: Fund Development Workshops
Starting late-February 2025
Ready to take your village to the next level? We’re thrilled to launch the Village Accelerator! This innovative program helps villages boost capacity, achieve growth goals, and build lasting sustainability through four focused modules: Fund Development, Villages as Communities of Care, Infrastructure Development, and Village Leadership.
Starting with our Fund Development module, we’ll dive into essential funding strategies through several dynamic workshops. Join us late-February for the first webinar on proven strategies for grant prospecting, relationship building, and proposal writing. Additional Fundraising workshops on individual/legacy giving and corporate sponsorships will be announced soon.
REGISTER WITH CAROLYN@VILLAGEMOVEMENTCALIFORNIA.ORG
FREE for Village Movement California members.
7th Annual Statewide Village Conference
September, 2025
Save the date: Our conference will be held in Northern California mid-September 2025 .
PAST EVENTS
Advocacy Workshops:
Our Advocacy workshops better equip villages in building relationships with local and state legislators and partnering with the key agencies in their local and regional aging services network.
Meet your Legislator! Our session was filled with positive and practical advice on engaging your village’s elected officials. Having our village voices heard is crucial and VMC has some information and tools to help make that happen! Watch Webinar |View Slides
Thank you Leza Coleman, Legislative Director for the California Commission on Aging and VMC board member, Erick Larson, Executive Director of Village of Sonoma Valley and VMC board member, and Carolyn Ross, Interim Executive Director at VMC for holding this workshop.
Area Agencies on Aging (AAA) 101 with Joseph Cobery, Executive Director of Passages AAA serving Butte and surrounding counties, will talk about the structure and function of the AAAs and share specifics on reaching out to your local AAA to engage them around the village model and the specific needs of your village. View Slides | Watch Webinar
Caregiving Trends in California
Village Movement California is collaborating with the California Coalition on Family Caregiving to better support our older adults and family caregivers, especially for struggling middle-income households. we participated in a recent webinar discussing the challenges California caregivers face. Below are some key highlights from our conversation. Watch Webinar
6th Annual Statewide Conference:
Expanding the Possibilities
Over 100 attendees from across California, as well as representatives from two Washington DC area villages, joined our 6th Annual Statewide Conference held at the West Health Institute in La Jolla, CA.
We had a great time connecting, sharing insights, engaging over various topics, and ultimately strengthening our movement to advance the cause of better aging across the state.
For Conference Presentations & Re-Cap, visit https://villagemovementcalifornia.org/conference2024
5th Annual Statewide Conference:
Fulfilling Our Potential
In June 2023, over 100 village leaders, stakeholders, and sponsors joined the Village Movement California staff and board in Oakland at our annual conference, Fulfilling Our Potential.
The presentations and conversations about the needs of middle-income Californians, care and caregiving, and the importance of advocacy were intended to equip us to better understand, and articulate, how villages support and change lives. It is time for us to stake a claim within the larger aging services continuum so that our movement is valued as a solution to the challenges facing California and its older people.
Click here for video-recordings and full conference recap.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) Workshop Series
Growth of our movement requires that we expand our communities to reflect California’s diverse populations of older adults. We’ve been talking about this truth for several years, searching for steps we can take. This series will highlight the work three villages – Pasadena, Ashby, and San Francisco – are taking on to engage new audiences of potential village members and volunteers.
| February 22, 2023 | Pasadena Village Recording |
| March 22, 2023 | San Francisco Village Recording |
| April 26, 2023 | Ashby Village Recording |
On Demand Training
Recordings of web-based workshops covering a range of topics are available on the member dashboard. You must be a member of Village Movement California to gain access. Join here.
