A volunteer from Grace South Bay Church in the Rose Garden area of San Jose paints a mobile home at Pioneer Mobile Home Park in Milpitas on Oct. 28 during Rebuilding Together Silicon Valley’s annual fall Rebuilding Day. Rebuilding Together coordinated more than 400 volunteers to perform home maintenance and repairs at 18 project sites across Santa Clara County. (Courtesy photo)
Rebuilding Day
Volunteers from the Grace South Bay Church and Verbo South Bay Church, both located in the Rose Garden area of San Jose, painted mobile homes at Pioneer Mobile Home Park in Milpitas on Oct. 28 during Rebuilding Together Silicon Valley’s annual Fall Rebuilding Day. Rebuilding Together coordinated more than 400 volunteers to perform home maintenance and repairs at 18 project sites across Santa Clara County.
Last year, Rebuilding Together performed repairs on over 288 low-income homes and nonprofit facilities. On average, 15% of these repairs are completed by volunteers.
Rebuilding Together is looking for volunteers for National Rebuilding Day next April. Email Alaina at Alaina@rtsv.org.
Neighborhood Notes
ROSE GARDEN>>A Santa Clara County grant to Parents Helping Parents (PHP) will help support families raising children with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities. The nonprofit will use county funding for a free mental health program designed to connect parents of children with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities with each other and with licensed therapists.
The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors approved a one-time matching grant, proposed by Supervisor Joe Simitian, that allows PHP to continue offering a free mental health program created at the peak of the pandemic in March 2020.
The program allows parents to connect with each other while learning self-care strategies to better cope with the stresses of raising a child with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities. Licensed marriage family therapists lead two-hour group Zoom sessions in both English and Spanish over the course of eight weeks.
For more information, visit https://www.php.com.
Originally published at Anne Gelhaus