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Monthly Update 

January 16, 2025

The January Update

Hello and welcome to 2025 friends of Easy Does It,

2025 is a big year for Easy Does It, as it is the year in which we will celebrate our 30th anniversary. We are planning quite the celebration for this year’s Easy Does It Day on Saturday, June 28 and cannot wait to share more details with you. We are also pleased to report that we are expanding our Wheelchair Repair Program to Richmond and El Cerrito but need your financial support to do so. Finally, we have our first events of the New Year to share with you, and a reminder to sign up for Caregiver Connection, a private social network for our Berkely clients and Caregivers.

3 Decades of Dedication

A collage of photos from Easy Does It's past featuring legends such as CeCe Weeks, John Benson, and Nikki Brown-Booker. With the phrase 3 Decades of Dedication displayed atop the collage.

In 2025, Easy Does It Emergency Services will celebrate its 30th anniversary. What started as a small group of Persons with Disabilities and their caregivers working together to support one another, has grown into a fully funded nonprofit agency that continues CeCe’s important work. Despite many challenges, we have continued to expand the number of communities we can serve and the amount of emergency services which we can provide within them. This is a cause for celebration, and we are looking forward to celebrating with you on Saturday, June 28, 2025, our official City Holiday and EDI’s official 30th anniversary. We will be sharing more details about the plan for the day in the months to come.

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Help Bring Affordable Wheelchair Repair to Richmond and El Cerrito.

A photo of Repair Technician Chris working on a power chair, the share the spirit logo and the sentence Help us bring affordable wheelchair repairs to richmond and el cerrito appears in the foreground

Easy Does It continues to expand upon the number of communities we can serve with our affordable wheelchair repair program. Our latest initiative will bring affordable repairs to Richmond and El Cerrito residents with the help of a Bay Area News Groups Share the Spirit Grant. But to reach our funding goal of $15,000 we are also relying on individual donors. At the time of this message, we are a few thousand dollars short of having enough funds to make the expansion of our repair program a reality. Any amount you can give will help ensure that we can offer subsidized repairs to Richmond and El Cerrito residents so more people can start living as they choose.

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EDI at OCCC’s Lunar New Year

Infographic Reading: EDI at OCCC's Lunar New Year, Jan 18, 9th Street and Franklin Street, 12pm - 5pm

Our first event of the year is just around the corner. Easy Does It will be tabling at The Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce’s Lunar New Year Bazaar. We are looking forward to ringing in the Year of the Snake with Oakland Chinatown residents and connecting them with our Oakland Affordable Wheelchair Repair Program as well as special Lunar New Year-themed merch.

EDI at CRIL’s Sensory Art Gallery

Infographic reading: EDI at CRIL's Sensory Art Gallery, Jan 23, CRIL Hayward, 10 am - 2 pm.

Right after the Lunar New Year, we will be heading to Community Resources for Independent Living’s Sensory Art Gallery. In honor of Ed Roberts Day, CRIL will be hosting a resource fair and Art Gallery that you can feel! We will be there to promote our Wheelchair Rescue Program, which offers free Roadside Assistance to Hayward Power Chair users who break down while out and about. Unfortunately, our repair team is unable to make an appearance this time around, so we’ll be unable to offer complimentary tune-ups to attendees. We apologize for the inconvenience.

An Online Wheelchair Repair Workshop

Infographic reading: Repair as you choose, Jan 29, EDI Hosted Webinar, 11 am - 12 pm.

In 2025 we are also excited to offer an online Wheelchair Repair workshop hosted by Repair Technicians Levan and Rodney. Later in the year, we will be hosting hybrid workshops at a variety of locations, but our first event at the end of January will be hosted on our website, you just need to provide your name and e-mail address to sign up for the webinar.

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Caregiver Connection is Available.

Easy Does It’s Caregiver Connection is now live and ready for Berkeley Residents to evaluate and to use. It is our hope to turn this social network into a resource for our clients and caregivers to connect with one another. But to get to that point, we need people to sign up! If you are looking to help us build a resource for finding quality personal attendant care online, we hope you will create an account.

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Berkeley Rides for Seniors and the Disabled (BRSD)

Berkeley Rides for Seniors & the Disabled (BRSD) assists City of Berkeley seniors and disabled adults with traveling throughout Berkeley and neighboring cities by supplementing their transportation costs with free taxi, accessible wheelchair van and GoGoGrandparent (Uber/Lyft) rides. BRSD is for Berkeley residents age 70 and older or those certified as disabled by East Bay Para-transit of ANY age. For more information and an application, please visit their website or call their offices,

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Community Resources

CIL x WID Emergency Preparedness Report

“We have witnessed the power of Nothing About Us, Without Us when it comes to emergency preparedness and resiliency for people with disabilities. If we do not see it in the world, we want—we need—to build it.”

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The Center for Independent Living (CIL) and the World Institute on Disability (WID) are thrilled to announce the launch of our report, “Disability Inclusive Emergency Preparedness and Community Perspectives: Research and Outcomes in Alameda County” into the world!

This report is the outcome of a year-long process to better understand the current state of emergency preparedness and disaster resilience across our county’s diverse disability population, and identify needs, challenges, gaps, and opportunities for our communities, emergency management, and state and local governments. The report was developed through a deeply community-driven process, which began with a series of community listening sessions, evolved into a county-wide survey, and deepened through focus groups. The report includes an introduction and background to disability and disaster response; an analysis of survey results; summaries of four key take-aways we found related to emergency preparedness and disabled communities, and finally, recommendations for emergency management, local governments, and community-based organizations in Alameda County.

We hope that the data, summaries, and most importantly, stories we have gathered in this report will help open new possibilities for people with disabilities to contribute to and lead in the fields of disaster preparedness and resiliency. We also hope that this report, and all that follows it, will impact the way first responders and emergency management staff understand accessibility and center the needs of people with disabilities before, during, and after disasters and emergencies. Please join us in reading and reflecting on this report and sharing it everywhere with your networks!

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San Francisco DCC’s Creative Healing with Natasha Thomas

Thursday, January 23, 2024, 5 pm–6 pm

The San Francisco Disability Cultural Center is hosting a workshop in which Natasha Thomas will guide attendees through our communal grief, fear, and hopelessness to center our own healing and community care. Open to the entire community. Register here:

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This is everything there is to know about our work heading into the New Year. We are thrilled to be celebrating our 30th anniversary and to be bringing our Repair Program to Richmond and El Cerrito. Thank you so much for your support in making this expansion a reality. We look forward to seeing you at the first of many events in 2025. Until next month, 
take it easy.

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