by Caitlin Childs | Feb 22, 2020 | Featured Stories, Healdsburg Forever, Resilience Fund
When the Kincade Fire ignited, multiple organizations responded quickly to ensure residents would be supported. Facing the loss of homes, paychecks, and other essentials as the holiday season approached, we immediately enacted a round of emergency grants from our...
by Caitlin Childs | Dec 12, 2019 | Featured Stories, Resilience Fund
Sonoma Community Foundation (SCF) announces $475,000 in emergency recovery grants to help support people affected by the Kincade fire and evacuations. These grants were made through our Sonoma County Resilience Fund, a long-term fire recovery fund first established...
by Caitlin Childs | Nov 29, 2019 | Featured Stories, Resilience Fund
Studies show that widespread trauma and PTSD reactions are common after natural disasters, something we know all too well in the aftermath of the Kincade Fire, when stress levels and anxiety spiked for many of us. Unaddressed trauma has long-term effects on children’s...
by Caitlin Childs | Oct 25, 2019 | Featured Stories, Resilience Fund
Updated Wednesday, October 31, 2019: Welcome home Sonoma County. We are incredibly, unspeakably, grateful to the first responders who worked tirelessly to keep the Kincade Fire from spreading further and who are now able to welcome so many of our neighbors home. As...
by Caitlin Childs | Apr 3, 2019 | Featured Stories, Resilience Fund
Over the course of eight days this fall and winter, 115 community members from all walks of life—doctors, social workers, teachers, counselors, waiters, yoga instructors, chaplains—gathered to learn skills to help our community heal. Dr. Bo Greaves, who retired from...
by Caitlin Childs | Apr 3, 2019 | Featured Stories, Resilience Fund
Long after the chaos of a disaster is resolved, the ongoing effects become clear. Over the fall, nearly one year after the October 2017 fires, Sonoma County was in a critical stage of post-disaster recovery. This phase of the recovery process, when some people are...
