In the Community Mar 2010

CHP had a presence at many community events in the last quarter by Mary Dudum and Joseph Bobrow, offering information of our counseling and residential retreats. 

We were invited and attended to bring our community support to:

  • National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI) Things have changed: What Combat Veterans and their Families need to know.
  • UC Berkeley's "Welcome back Vets" program, where CHP was featured as a community resource offering psychological counseling and retreats to our local veterans.
  • San Francisco State University's resource fair for veterans and incoming veterans students where we represented community resources for veterans.

Mary is working with the Asian American Theater in San Francisco by providing input as a family member to the creator of a play about a soldier coming home from combat and experiencing relationships differently.  Additionally,  Mary has been able to attend various committee meetings offering our support to  the San Francisco Sheriffs Dept  development of  a program called  "COVER," for incarcerated veterans.  As a participant giving input as an organization familiar with military culture and from the perspective as a military family member.

In January, Mary Dudum and Ed Dieden, two long time CHP volunteers, launched the East Bay Collaborative -- an open forum promoting the exchange of information and resources for the care of military, veterans and families. They support building fully integrated partnerships of Federal, State, Local, and Community Services. Their next meeting will be April 20.

CHP also supports their volunteers: we sponsored Mary Dudum as a rider for Sentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation, Cycling in The California Tour.  She proudly rode with riders from the Marine, I&I 4th Force Recon Company based out of Alameda and cycled from SF to San Diego.  SOF is part of the Coalition of Iraq and Afghanistan www.TheCaliforniaTour.org.

Please see our Upcoming Events to check out other community events--including A Celebration of the 2nd Women's Military History Week at Twin Towers Methodist Church March 20 in Alameda, CA, put on by a long time CHP volunteer, Kathy Dieden.