Events

Bob Taibbi,  one of our generous Silent Auction donors, has created a podcast to help us through this time. Living through a 100-year pandemic provides lots of good reasons to feel anxious and depressed. In this podcast we will look at how to cope with anxiety and depression in these anxious times.

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Here is the link for the podcast: https://youtu.be/okFQPoExcOw

COVID-19 demonstrates just how important a caring community is. If you are looking for ways to support the community or if you need support yourself, here is a list of resources. If we have missed a resource, please let us know by emailing us at: cvilledemschair@gmail.com.

Support C’ville (a clearinghouse for ways to donate time and money and to get help): https://www.supportcville.com/?fbclid=IwAR3i-eOq5O2bMW50ZfY66Qab5DQZ158gBCZbQ-VvKj1ZdKTC4ArWMWaS4EA

Mutual Aid Infrastructure (A Facebook group where ways to help and get help are posted):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/500721927287565/

Congregate (mini grants up to $200 for families in; if you donate, donations are matched until 3/20):
https://congregatecville.com/

Foster application for SPCA (with fewer volunteers, the SPCA is working to get dogs and cats into foster families):
https://caspca.org/spca-foster-application/

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SCHOOL INFO

Charlottesville City Schools will hand out breakfast and lunch bags at 11 sites from 10 a.m. to noon weekdays to children 18 and younger, a free service that will continue throughout the closure. Parents don’t need to be present for their child to receive a bag. Information about the sites and meals is available at charlottesvilleschools.org/food.

The Albemarle County school division will distribute meals from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. weekdays in the parking lots of six schools: Albemarle, Monticello and Western Albemarle High schools; Sutherland and Walton Middle schools; and Woodbrook Elementary School. More information is available at
www.k12albemarle.org/acps/division/Pages/COVID-19.aspx.

This message is from the officers of the Charlottesville Democratic Party

Democratic Breakfast on 8/25/18 provided information regarding local immigration issues, ICE activities, and ways to help:

CIRAC (Charlottesville-area Immigrant Resource and Advocacy Coalition: immigrantcoalitioncville@gmail.com; cirac.weebly.com

Sin Barreras (Without Borders): http://sinbarrerascville.com; sinbarrerascville@gmail.com

Doug Ford; “Se habla espanol”
Managing Attorney, Forthright Legal (sliding scale available) www.forthrightlegal.org
434/260-1329; doug@forthrightleal.org
2340 Commonwealth Dr., Ste 206, Charlottesville VA, 22901