Spinal Cord Injury Active Network

Please take the time to participate if you meet the requirements!

Excited to showcase our #RollOnBowlOn program exhibiting the camaraderie, family-inclusion and the encouragement of our network. Video by Martin G. Wood

2 new #shareachair additions donated by another T-Roy @troy2c with @greencentaurcollective Thanks for supporting our program of increasing mobility and independence for those in need!

Please take a few seconds to read and fill out this survey for an amazing group of CSUDH Occupational Therapy students doing a research study on Outdoor Recreation for SCI survivors. https://forms.gle/UFDG3kvkaBCNmbwu5

We have shifted some gears lately and received $15,000 in grants from Craig H. Neilsen Foundation and Center for Independent Living - Berkeley specifically for COVID-19 RELIEF. We're excited to announce 2 grants: $250 financial relief and $100 At-Home Health & Fitness Starter Kit or Reimbursement.... You must have a Spinal Cord Injury and live within Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, Sonoma, or Yolo Counties. Both grants are available to apply for now and we would encourage all who qualify to apply as soon as possible. http://www.sciactivenetwork.org/covid19

Must read article about our good friend Joseph Bello and the amazing scholarship he received from the Strauss Foundation to help us educate SCI survivors and their families on wheelchair terminology, maintenance, and proper fitting for the newly injured. Also, to share our Share-A-Chair program with other organizations nationwide so they can serve their communities as we do! Thank you Joseph!!!

IMPORTANT COVID-19 INFORMATION for SCI: Respiratory information for Spinal Cord Injury survivors and higher risks with our compromised respiratory systems. Thanks to a friend of our Network, Dr. Bret Kennedy, PT, DPT, for sharing these first 6 slides with crucial information in regards to problems, management, and capacity for many different injury levels. The last 3 slides are from our friend, Dr. Lee Amari, RT, RRT, about the importance to avoid contact and all crowds, clea...n and preventive tasks, breathing exercises, and what to do if you feel symptoms or believe you were exposed to the virus. These show that as SCI survivors we need to really take COVID-19 seriously and be aware of our surroundings and symptoms.

Our very important COVID-19 Update: We understand there is a Shelter-in-place already for most of the counties we serve. We are taking this very serious as we are and work with those that are higher risk with compromised respiratory systems. We have suspended all of our programs as currently performed until May 1st unless otherwise updated. This is hard for us because there are still needs for our programs, probably more so now than ever. But due to our work being close in-pe...rson mentor interaction in hospitals, hands-on wheelchair fitting for our Share-A-Chair recipients, and group attendance throughout our meet-ups and events we know this is the right thing for everyone's safety. On Monday March 9th, our Board of Directors collectively decided to postpone our Annual April Poker fundraiser until possibly August or September. Also, with the start of the @athletics season postponed, unfortunately we decided not to plan our Annual A's game fundraiser. These are 2 of our large events for us to raise funds to support our programs, but we know we are completely doing the right thing as the safety of Network's volunteers, recipients, supporters, and higher risk community is the utmost importance! In the meantime, our work doesn't stop as we continue to work on our administration, general operations, program development and marketing, and we still want to offer mentoring via email, phone or zoom calls over this time. Again, we currently will not be able to deliver through our Share-A-Chair program until further notice. Thanks to everyone for their support, understanding, patience, being safe and protecting others during this time!

Last night we had a great presentation from Pacific ADA Center's Jan Garrett with the 9th region of the ADA National Network. Despite the outbreak of the Coronavirus COVID-19, we as a group decided to continue with our meeting and had a great turnout, amazing questions, and lots of interaction that the 2-hour meeting wasn't enough time. If you still have questions or something comes up if you're in Arizona. California, Hawaii, Nevada, Pacific Basin Territories of American Sam...oa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam you can visit @pacificadacenter or contact their office (800) 949-4232 Thank you to all who help with planning our meet-ups, the attendees, and our sponsor @applewesthms for always supplying us with plenty of food at dinner hour! Note: April and May meetings may be cancelled due to COVID-19 and the risks for our group. Please follow our facebook group for updates. Thank you and be safe! @ Ed Roberts Campus

What a night at the Vallejo City Council meeting last night representing the Vallejo Waterfront Weekend! Troy is receiving an amazing beneficiary check from Vallejo Mayor Bob Sampayan along with 10 other Vallejo nonprofits totalling $32,000 raised last October! Thanks to all of the volunteers, committees, participants, and sponsors in helping make this the best event in Vallejo and raising substantial money for community nonprofits! Mark your calendars! This year it is October 3rd & 4th @ Vallejo City Hall

What an awesome moment! #Rollmodel

Don't forget to join us Tomorrow evening, Thursday, Dec. 12th for our Holiday party and last meeting of the decade! Most importantly, come show gratitude to @mtilford our @unitedspinal Bay Area Chapter Leader, Berkeley meetup co-host, and big community contributor to everything we do a goodbye and good luck as he prepares to start his next chapter of life in Salt Lake City! Thanks to our awesome sponsor @applewesthms for a delicious holiday food spread you won't want to miss! @ Ed Roberts Campus

We had a blast at our 4th Annual Oakland @athletics fundraiser game vs the @sfgiants This year we took on the lofty goal of selling 200 tickets with a portion of each ticket going directly to us to help our programs! We sold out with most sales in the last week and raised over $2000, but most importantly we had a great group of people come out to our tailgate and have a blast on the perfect August night! Yes the A's actually lost for the first time in our 4 years, but it made for fun fireworks between the fans! Thank you to all that bought tickets from us, sponsored others to come, and everyone who helped setup and takedown the tailgate. Until next year....Let's go Oakland @ OaklandAlameda County Coliseum

Parking gates open at 12pm Tailgate and cornhole in LOT A from 12-4pm Ballpark gates open at 4:05pm First pitch at 6:07pm... Prepaid $20 parking passes are available here https://www.mlb.com/athletics/ballpark/transportation We plan to enter the Coliseum between 4-5pm to secure your # of seats together and with friends in the LEFT FIELD bleachers. If you have more than 4 seats, I'd recommend entering closer to when the gates open at 4. NOTE: Tickets are open for both left and field bleachers on entrance level floor. If you're taking BART to Coliseum station, you have to cross the catwalk and may enter at that gate. Take elevator down to bleachers. See you there and Let's go OAKLAND!

Join us for our 4th Annual Oakland A’s Fundraiser vs. San Francisco Giants! Tickets are $40 per ticket (a portion of each ticket goes directly to our organization) for Bleacher seats that can be purchased with cash, check, Venmo, Paypal, or on our website www.sciactivenetwork.org Instead of fireworks this year, we decided for the Bay Bridge series against the San Francisco Giants to create our own fireworks between the loyal A’s and Giants fans! All tickets are First come General Admission Bleacher seats with some ADA reserved for our network. Also, we plan to have a pregame tailgate potluck along with Kornhole fun from North Bay Elite Kornhole. LIMITED TICKETS SO DON’T WAIT TO GET YOURS!!!!