Sunday March 12th @ 2pm -Daylight Savings time- Set clocks ahead one hour!
We have an ‘improbable’, not impossible, road ahead re: the return of the building.
While that effort goes on, we will educate ourselves and our community on the larger, looming, struggle to care for our most vulnerable neighbors – all of us.
We are trying to reimagine how we create options for existing and future care needs, in the very center of our communities, where no one is left out or left alone to deal with mental or physical health challenges. And to reimagine how this beautiful facility overlooking a garden could be creatively used for the good of our community.
A former caregiver at Rivington House will speak out about her time there. Others will speak on disability rights/policy and the rights of older persons – and how to think about the caregivers they require to live their lives. We’ll have two neighborhood women talk about the impact on their lives without Rivington House. An architect who knows the ‘bones’ of the building and the (at the time) groundbreaking retrofitting done there (at quite a cost to taxpayers).
We’ll also have information on the Sanctuary Homes initiative to protect undocumented caregivers.
