WELLNESS AND TRAUMA RECOVERY RESOURCES for camp fire survivors
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Life After Trauma Workshop Series. Learn self-soothing tips and techniques to reduce acute trauma, compassion fatigue, and overall residual trauma. Dr. Lueders, PhD, LCSW, is gifting her years of experience, including having served those affected by the OK City bombing and Hurricane Katrina. Open to all! Refreshment and children’s activities provided. Thursday eves, 5-6p, 3/28, and 4/11 at Thrive, 1361 Hawthorne Ave., Chico. (Each date has unique info; you may attend one, both!). $25 gift cards for the first 50 CF affected adults who RSVP and attend at least 2 of 3 (FEMA ID for gift cards). Please register here. Camp Fire Healing Support Circle: Sats., 5:30-7:30p. Listen to music, sip tea, eat snacks. Each week focused on a different kind of healing. Phoenix Nest, 1929 Mangrove, Chico, across from S&S Produce. Led by local therapy specialists. Gathering of those who have come through the Camp Fire just as you have, and want to heal and grow through it. Sharing is optional. RSVP if you can. The Healing Tribe Workshop Series Presents Biodynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release System® As we respond to the incredible life changes experienced since the destructive fires of 2018, we search for means to reclaim our sense of well-being and balance. In this full-day workshop, we will partner with Colin T Connor, Executive Director of Development and certified practitioner of BioDynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release System® (BBTRS®), to explore how we can release trauma through embodied awareness and breathwork. BBTRS® delivers a powerful alchemy of leading somatic practices, one that supports free flow of energy in the body at a cellular level, while tapping the power of polyvagal theory. BioDynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release System is a new approach to body-oriented healing. It is founded on a careful combination of specific breathing patterns with therapeutic conscious movement and dance, specialized touch and bodywork techniques, core tension release exercises, gentle emotional release and meditation practices to support optimal health. Cost $75 per person Date: Saturday, April 13 Time: 9 AM - 4:00 PM Location: 432 Sound Studio - 1929 Mangrove Avenue, Chico, CA 95926Contact Alexandra Kriz for more information at: alexandra.kriz@yahoo.com or call/text 530-680-3474 Butte Parent Cafe, Chico and Oroville. Free family night out in Chico, with family-style meal, child care, peer-to-peer strengthening families discussion. Not a parenting class, but a chance to have a stress free night and great conversation with other families! Fri., 4/5, 6-8p, Chico Junior High, 280 Memorial Way, Chico. Sign up here Fri., 4/12, 6-8p Oroville YMCA, 1684 Robinson St., Oroville. Sign up here! Great for stress reduction. CRISIS? Need someone to talk to? Butte Co Behavioral Health walk-in crisis services for everyone! 8am-11pm 7 days/wk at 560 Cohasset Rd., Suite 180, Chico. Crisis Line 530-891-2810. For Veterans talk 800-273-8255 (deaf/hard of hearing 800-799-4889), text (838255), online chat. You don’t need to be enrolled in or registered with VA to use these resources! Free, anonymous, confidential available to any service member. Pain, anxiety, depression, insomnia, anger, memories...please reach out! To get a personal advocate to help you navigate huge lists of resources, please go here. Shalom Free Clinic, two locations: (1) 1010 Mangrove, Suite D, Chico is open Suns from 1-4 p.m. to provide non-emergency medical care. Alternative healthcare also provided Weds. eves 5-7pm, including energy balancing, Reiki, & other healing techniques. Light refreshments served each Sun. afternoon during clinic hours. (2) Free mental health care every Sun. from 1-4pm, and free Reiki and free gentle yoga (no experience necessary)! on Suns. at 4-5pm and Weds at 4-5pm. at their First Christian Church location, 295 E. Washington Ave., Chico. CCURE Butte County is providing MANY resources and help for CF survivors: physical support (restrooms, food, coffee, drinks, snacks, soup, chili; hazmat resources--suits, clean-up, masks, etc); emotional support (safe place to debrief, soul care provided by trained chaplains; mental health experts available. 3 drop-in locations: Pentz Rd. Center: Evangelical Free Church, 5095 Pentz Rd; Skyway Center: Church of the Nazarene, 311 Circlewood Dr. (Neal x Skyway); Clark Road Center: First Baptist Church, 6500 Clark Rd. We are a partnership of pastors from the Paradise area. Our goal is to be a long-term and sustainable presence during recovery! PTSD Coach: a free app you can download from the National Center for PTSD! For Mac, iphone, android (desktop & mobile). Always with you when you need it! Providing you with facts and self-help skills based on research. Have you lost a loved one in the Camp Fire, or know someone who has? Please see here for what to expect yourself, and how to respond to your friend/loved one who’s lost someone beloved. |
Free 3 month counseling sessions for fire survivors
Therapeutic Solutions Disaster Distress Helpline EMDR NorCal Trauma Recovery Network HeartStrings Counseling (based in Loomis CA) CA Assoication of Marriage and Family Counselors How to Cope: Mental Health Resources in the Wake of the Camp Fire "Checklist" for Camp fire survivorsDisaster Assist Team's list of resources for financial assistance, disaster case management services, relocation assistance, supplies, clothing and food, etc.
ONLINE support groupsFire Survivors Facebook Support Group Page
This group is designed to address the emotional needs of wildfire survivors who have lost their homes. Many of us lost our homes in the Valley Wildfire in California last September, and we know what you are going through. Camp Fire Survivors FB Support Group and website A safe place for survivors to share their feelings and stories with one another. Camp Fire Relocation FB page. Camp Fire Survivor Facebook Pages for survivors in other locations, including OR, NV, WA, AZ, ID, UT, El Dorado Co., Fresno, Sacramento, Santa Cruz. Separate pages for Sutter-Yuba City and Santa Cruz/Monterey. Grief Recovery FB group The #1 most protective thing you can do for your mental health, according to a trove of research, is to seek social support, and that includes any activity that leaves you feeling connected to others--in-person contact is best, but online also has been shown to help! searchable found pet database for the camp fire burn areaThis is a searchable photo library of all the found, rescued animals from the Camp Fire burn area. They are maintaining adopted and reunited pets’ info.
Red cross financial assistanceThe Red Cross is beginning Phase 2 of its Wildfire Relief-Immediate financial assistance program. If you were turned down or didn’t get a chance to apply before, they’re taking new applications and assigning case numbers now.
Salvation army resourcesFor specific needs, please call their hotline, and make an appointment with a caseworker: 833-372-2267 and press 1 (examples of immediate needs: auto repair, money/vouchers for emergency needs, furniture, med support, rent, rental deposit, tools) Call ONLY during screening hours M-TH 9:30-noon only.
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medical and healing resources for camp fire survivors
Mental Health Crisis
In a mental health crisis, or concerned about someone who is? Please contact the Butte County Behavioral Health access line at 800-334-6622 or 530-891-2810. There are walk-in outpatient behavioral health services available 8a-11p, 7 days/wk, including holidays, at 560 Cohasset Rd., Ste. 180, in Chico. If you’re in Placer County, call 916-787-8860 or 888-886-5401. If you, or someone you know, are actively suicidal or homicidal, please call 911 immediately. Chico State students can access counseling support by calling the Counseling and Wellness Center 24/7 at 530-898-6345. Faculty, staff can access 24/7 counseling through the EAP at 800-367-7474. Support for immediate and long-term needs (housing, transpo, books…) can be found at the Wildcats Rise FB group. If in acute distress and outside of Butte County, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at (800) 273-8255 or the National Disaster Distress Helpline, with trained mental health counselors available 24/7, 1-800-985-5990, or text to 66746: text one word with no spaces, talkwithus; or in Spanish, text one word, hablanos. Suicide hotlines, by country.
The Alex Project is aimed at suicide prevention. They are equipped to address all post-disaster mental health issues, for all ages!. Text HOME to 741741. They will respond 24/7/365. They're located in Chico, North Valley Community Foundation.
The COPE hotline is answered by trained listeners. They provide supportive listening to callers, crisis intervention, and suicide prevention from anywhere in the US, 24/7, all calls anonymous and confidential! 262-377-2673. (website)
Psychotherapy and Counseling
Kaiser Permanente is offering one-time free counseling support for survivors through May 20. Includes brief advice, single session counseling support, information about counseling resources. 707-571-3778, option 4.
California Hope: Butte County Counselors helping CF survivors. Find us on FB or call us on the Hope Line, 530-966-7382, M-F 8a-5p, accepting new applications beginning APRIL 2.
Free online counseling for Camp Fire survivors by licensed psychotherapists for 3 months at Better Help.
Heartstrings Counseling in Loomis, Placer County, is starting their free CF survivor support group this month! 8 people only. Please call 916-676-5405 to sign up. First meeting was Fri., 2/15, 3:30-5, at 6135 King Rd., Ste. D., Loomis, but please contact them if you’d like to come, as more groups will be added! For more information, please see their website.
Shalom Free Clinic, two locations: (1) 1010 Mangrove, Suite D, Chico is open Suns from 1-4 p.m. to provide non-emergency medical care. Alternative healthcare also provided Weds. evenings 5-7pm, including energy balancing, Reiki, & other healing techniques. Light refreshments served each Sun. afternoon during clinic hours. (2) Free mental health care every Sun. from 1-4pm, and free Reiki and free gentle yoga (no experience necessary)! on Suns. at 4-5pm and Weds evenings at 4-5pm. at their First Christian Church location, 295 E. Washington Ave., Chico.
Psychology Today has a licensed psychotherapist directory. Many take Medi-Cal and some have sliding scales!
Placer County Mental Health Svcs: Screening clinic T, 1-2p, 101 Cirby Hills Dr., Rosevale; W 9-10a, 11512 B Ave., Auburn, and TH 9-10a, 101 Cirby Hills Dr., Roseville.
SAMSHA has an interactive substance abuse and mental health treatment map. We posted it on our #DisasterAssistTeam Facebook page.
VETERANS: The VA has established a Women Veterans hotline, 855-VA-WOMEN (829-6636) to receive and respond to questions from women veterans, their families, caregivers about available VA services and resources. If you or a loved one are a veteran and are experiencing PTSD symptoms, please contact the 24-hour Veterans Crisis Line 800-273-8255, press 1, or text 838255 for immediate help! If you are a CampFire survivor and/or a veteran and need resources or someone to talk with, please dial 211, 24/7!
LGBTQ: Stonewall Alliance support groups for survivors of the fire 530-893-3336.
Shalom Free Clinic, two locations: (1) 1010 Mangrove, Suite D, Chico is open Suns from 1-4 p.m. to provide non-emergency medical care. Alternative healthcare also provided Weds. evenings 5-7pm, including energy balancing, Reiki, & other healing techniques. Light refreshments served each Sun. afternoon during clinic hours. (2) Free mental health care every Sun. from 1-4pm, and free Reiki and free gentle yoga (no experience necessary)! on Suns. at 4-5pm and Weds evenings at 4-5pm. at their First Christian Church location, 295 E. Washington Ave., Chico.
Psychology Today has a licensed psychotherapist directory. Many take Medi-Cal and some have sliding scales!
Placer County Mental Health Svcs: Screening clinic T, 1-2p, 101 Cirby Hills Dr., Rosevale; W 9-10a, 11512 B Ave., Auburn, and TH 9-10a, 101 Cirby Hills Dr., Roseville.
SAMSHA has an interactive substance abuse and mental health treatment map. We posted it on our #DisasterAssistTeam Facebook page.
VETERANS: The VA has established a Women Veterans hotline, 855-VA-WOMEN (829-6636) to receive and respond to questions from women veterans, their families, caregivers about available VA services and resources. If you or a loved one are a veteran and are experiencing PTSD symptoms, please contact the 24-hour Veterans Crisis Line 800-273-8255, press 1, or text 838255 for immediate help! If you are a CampFire survivor and/or a veteran and need resources or someone to talk with, please dial 211, 24/7!
LGBTQ: Stonewall Alliance support groups for survivors of the fire 530-893-3336.
Faith-Based Counseling
CCURE Butte County is providing MANY resources and help for CF survivors: physical support (restrooms, food, coffee, drinks, snacks, soup, chili; hazmat resources--suits, clean-up, masks, etc); emotional support (safe place to debrief, soul care provided by trained chaplains; mental health experts available. 3 drop-in locations: Pentz Rd. Center: Evangelical Free Church, 5095 Pentz Rd; Skyway Center: Church of the Nazarene, 311 Circlewood Dr. (Neal x Skyway); Clark Road Center: First Baptist Church, 6500 Clark Rd. We are a partnership of pastors from the Paradise area. Our goal is to be a long-term and sustainable presence during recovery!
Counseling services from NVCSS, low cost, sliding scale, free, insurance accepted!
There is a counselor at Magalia Community Church every Thursday, 11-3.
Grief counselor will travel to your home if you can’t get to him. Baruch Behkar, 451-780-3087, family and individual crisis, grief, loss, trauma, children and adults.
People Helping People: St. John’s Episcopal Church of Chico will be at Magalia Community Church (on old Skyway in Old Magalia) to provide counseling to those in need of help on Thursdays between 11a-3p in the Church Library. No charge or obligation, just come talk to someone who can give you the emotional support you might need!
Cancer
Have cancer? Free help finding benefits for cancer patients and their families. Please text or call 205-565-1754 and tell us your name, what type of cancer, zip code, email address to send the information, and we will be able to provide specific help! Project Hope Butte Co. assists anyone going through chemo with free rides to get meds, financial assistance with medical bills, travel, medication; call 530-433-4131. If you need American Cancer Society services, you should call our National Cancer Information Center at 1-800-227-2345. For cancer patients, finding care in the wake of major disasters is challenging.
Diabetes/Insulin
Have diabetes? Free program for prescription assistance here. Here’s the Diabetes Disaster Response Coalition for resources, info. Call 800-DIABETES for info., access to supplies and more, M-F 6a-4p PST. PLEASE do NOT ration your insulin. Eli Lilly, one of the big 3 Insulin producers (headquartered in Indianapolis) have a program to assist anyone with insulin affordability. Call (833) 808-1234. You may have heard you can buy insulin without a prescription at WalMart for much, much less than insurance cost, asking them not to run the purchase through insurance. It costs $25. With insurance, it can be over $400/month. HOWEVER... Please read this article about that, from Insulin Nation (summary: it’s cheap because it’s inferior insulin).
Chiropractic Care
Free chiropractic care in Roseville (ID req’d). Dr. Zawada “is one of our area’s best chiropractors & is opening his healing doors to you!” Scott Zawada DC, 1441 Secret Ravine Pkwy Ste 140, Roseville 916 773 0999 zchiro773@gmail.com
Prescriptions
Paradise Medical Group can help you with in-person care and prescription refills, 227 Cohasset Rd., Chico. Passages Adult Resource Center: evacuated older adults trying to navigate filling/replacing prescriptions, please contact Passages at 530-898-5923 for help! Emergency Prescriptions information: California State Board of Pharmacy reminds all that, under the state of emergency declared by the Governor in Butte County, there are laws that can help evacuees refill lost prescriptions (see link).
Women’s Health
Project Hope Butte Co. assisting breast cancer patients in chemo w/transportation, financial assistance with medical bills, travel, medication. Please call 530-433-4131. Women’s Health Specialists, 1469 Humboldt Rd. Ste. 200, Chico. Free rides to and from medical appointments. To schedule appointment: 530-891-1911. Free and low-cost care for all genders.
Glasses, Eye exams
VSP partners with Lens Crafters’ nonprofit, OneSight, to provide gift vouchers for wildfire survivors. See your local Lens Crafters for assistance with referrals to get them in for exams and glasses at no charge to them. VSP also has emergency vouchers. Red Cross will replace your prescription glasses that burned. Call Sacramento Red Cross at 916-993-7070 and nurse Rita or Misty will call you back. She will then mail you a certificate for $482 for glasses (no contacts). It can be used for exam and frames anywhere. Chico Eye Center is still doing free eye exams for survivors.
Health Clinics
Free and low-cost medical/dental clinics near Chico. New patients, walk-ins welcome! Accepts most insurance health plans, including Medicare and Medi-Cal. Sliding scale fee for those without insurance, 530-788-2748, Ampla Health. Free flu shots: Butte Co. Health Dept., 6950 Oleander Ave., Chico 530-891-2871 for appt.
Free monthly health and development screenings for kids 0-5. By Bright Futures and Help Me Grow of Sutter Co Mahal Plaza, 1719 Franklin Ave., 11-2. Positive discipline, motor skills, oral, vision, speech, cognitive, hearing screening. 530-822-7505.
Adventist Health Feather River: Have re-opened clinics in Paradise, Chico & Corning. Home health, hospice, home oxygen back online. Primary care, OB/GYN, midwifery, oncology, physical therapy, specialty care. Chemo, oncology are in Marysville. Corning offering dental care, as well. Hotline: 530-872-2000, adventisthealthfeatherriver.org Prescriptions: take to local pharmacy & get emergency refills, or call hotline.
With Enloe Medical Center’s help Butte Co. has set up a clinic for minor medical care. The clinic will be open Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., at Mission Ranch Primary Care (114 Mission Ranch Blvd #10, Chico). The clinic is for evacuees, especially those needing medical refills.
Medical Supplies
PG&E will reduce your bill if you are reliant on medical equipment or have particular medical heating/cooling needs. See information about the Medical Baseline Program on the PGE website.
Shield Health Care: “Please call us - (800) 675-8842 (press option 1) - if your medical supplies have been destroyed. You do not need to be a current Shield customer to receive supplies. We will replace them for free and deliver them to wherever you are.” (includes adult/child diapers, formula, catheters, ostomy supplies, etc.)
Prosthetics: Ultra Prosthetics and Orthotics will fly you into Carson City, NV, and pay for your lodging and make you a prosthetic in a week and fly you back home. We will also travel to you if you cannot come here. We are available 24/7 if you have questions or are in need of any prosthetic care or supplies, 800-858-7276 or email office@ultraprosthetics.com
Used wheelchairs and equipment for sale here.
Disabilities
Camp Fire Disabilities page for people to come together and tell their stories, get support.
Short video w/info for Camp Fire survivors. Call 916-361-0380 for disability, access, functional need help; 711 if TTY.
Call the Disability Action Center in Chico at 893-8527 (Housing Specialists are Sandra Morales-Miller and Sor Lo). Services are free to anyone with a disability, and they have donated/loaner equipment and resources! And in Redding, 2876 Park Marina Dr., 530-242-8550.
Services for kids on the autism spectrum: Call/text Yellow Door at 530/518-2495.
B-Line Paratransit (formerly Chico Clipper) provides door-to-door transportation services to disabled or senior riders. Advance registration 24 hours in advance. One-way $2.50.
In a mental health crisis, or concerned about someone who is? Please contact the Butte County Behavioral Health access line at 800-334-6622 or 530-891-2810. There are walk-in outpatient behavioral health services available 8a-11p, 7 days/wk, including holidays, at 560 Cohasset Rd., Ste. 180, in Chico. If you’re in Placer County, call 916-787-8860 or 888-886-5401. If you, or someone you know, are actively suicidal or homicidal, please call 911 immediately. Chico State students can access counseling support by calling the Counseling and Wellness Center 24/7 at 530-898-6345. Faculty, staff can access 24/7 counseling through the EAP at 800-367-7474. Support for immediate and long-term needs (housing, transpo, books…) can be found at the Wildcats Rise FB group. If in acute distress and outside of Butte County, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at (800) 273-8255 or the National Disaster Distress Helpline, with trained mental health counselors available 24/7, 1-800-985-5990, or text to 66746: text one word with no spaces, talkwithus; or in Spanish, text one word, hablanos. Suicide hotlines, by country.
The Alex Project is aimed at suicide prevention. They are equipped to address all post-disaster mental health issues, for all ages!. Text HOME to 741741. They will respond 24/7/365. They're located in Chico, North Valley Community Foundation.
The COPE hotline is answered by trained listeners. They provide supportive listening to callers, crisis intervention, and suicide prevention from anywhere in the US, 24/7, all calls anonymous and confidential! 262-377-2673. (website)
Psychotherapy and Counseling
Kaiser Permanente is offering one-time free counseling support for survivors through May 20. Includes brief advice, single session counseling support, information about counseling resources. 707-571-3778, option 4.
California Hope: Butte County Counselors helping CF survivors. Find us on FB or call us on the Hope Line, 530-966-7382, M-F 8a-5p, accepting new applications beginning APRIL 2.
Free online counseling for Camp Fire survivors by licensed psychotherapists for 3 months at Better Help.
Heartstrings Counseling in Loomis, Placer County, is starting their free CF survivor support group this month! 8 people only. Please call 916-676-5405 to sign up. First meeting was Fri., 2/15, 3:30-5, at 6135 King Rd., Ste. D., Loomis, but please contact them if you’d like to come, as more groups will be added! For more information, please see their website.
Shalom Free Clinic, two locations: (1) 1010 Mangrove, Suite D, Chico is open Suns from 1-4 p.m. to provide non-emergency medical care. Alternative healthcare also provided Weds. evenings 5-7pm, including energy balancing, Reiki, & other healing techniques. Light refreshments served each Sun. afternoon during clinic hours. (2) Free mental health care every Sun. from 1-4pm, and free Reiki and free gentle yoga (no experience necessary)! on Suns. at 4-5pm and Weds evenings at 4-5pm. at their First Christian Church location, 295 E. Washington Ave., Chico.
Psychology Today has a licensed psychotherapist directory. Many take Medi-Cal and some have sliding scales!
Placer County Mental Health Svcs: Screening clinic T, 1-2p, 101 Cirby Hills Dr., Rosevale; W 9-10a, 11512 B Ave., Auburn, and TH 9-10a, 101 Cirby Hills Dr., Roseville.
SAMSHA has an interactive substance abuse and mental health treatment map. We posted it on our #DisasterAssistTeam Facebook page.
VETERANS: The VA has established a Women Veterans hotline, 855-VA-WOMEN (829-6636) to receive and respond to questions from women veterans, their families, caregivers about available VA services and resources. If you or a loved one are a veteran and are experiencing PTSD symptoms, please contact the 24-hour Veterans Crisis Line 800-273-8255, press 1, or text 838255 for immediate help! If you are a CampFire survivor and/or a veteran and need resources or someone to talk with, please dial 211, 24/7!
LGBTQ: Stonewall Alliance support groups for survivors of the fire 530-893-3336.
Shalom Free Clinic, two locations: (1) 1010 Mangrove, Suite D, Chico is open Suns from 1-4 p.m. to provide non-emergency medical care. Alternative healthcare also provided Weds. evenings 5-7pm, including energy balancing, Reiki, & other healing techniques. Light refreshments served each Sun. afternoon during clinic hours. (2) Free mental health care every Sun. from 1-4pm, and free Reiki and free gentle yoga (no experience necessary)! on Suns. at 4-5pm and Weds evenings at 4-5pm. at their First Christian Church location, 295 E. Washington Ave., Chico.
Psychology Today has a licensed psychotherapist directory. Many take Medi-Cal and some have sliding scales!
Placer County Mental Health Svcs: Screening clinic T, 1-2p, 101 Cirby Hills Dr., Rosevale; W 9-10a, 11512 B Ave., Auburn, and TH 9-10a, 101 Cirby Hills Dr., Roseville.
SAMSHA has an interactive substance abuse and mental health treatment map. We posted it on our #DisasterAssistTeam Facebook page.
VETERANS: The VA has established a Women Veterans hotline, 855-VA-WOMEN (829-6636) to receive and respond to questions from women veterans, their families, caregivers about available VA services and resources. If you or a loved one are a veteran and are experiencing PTSD symptoms, please contact the 24-hour Veterans Crisis Line 800-273-8255, press 1, or text 838255 for immediate help! If you are a CampFire survivor and/or a veteran and need resources or someone to talk with, please dial 211, 24/7!
LGBTQ: Stonewall Alliance support groups for survivors of the fire 530-893-3336.
Faith-Based Counseling
CCURE Butte County is providing MANY resources and help for CF survivors: physical support (restrooms, food, coffee, drinks, snacks, soup, chili; hazmat resources--suits, clean-up, masks, etc); emotional support (safe place to debrief, soul care provided by trained chaplains; mental health experts available. 3 drop-in locations: Pentz Rd. Center: Evangelical Free Church, 5095 Pentz Rd; Skyway Center: Church of the Nazarene, 311 Circlewood Dr. (Neal x Skyway); Clark Road Center: First Baptist Church, 6500 Clark Rd. We are a partnership of pastors from the Paradise area. Our goal is to be a long-term and sustainable presence during recovery!
Counseling services from NVCSS, low cost, sliding scale, free, insurance accepted!
There is a counselor at Magalia Community Church every Thursday, 11-3.
Grief counselor will travel to your home if you can’t get to him. Baruch Behkar, 451-780-3087, family and individual crisis, grief, loss, trauma, children and adults.
People Helping People: St. John’s Episcopal Church of Chico will be at Magalia Community Church (on old Skyway in Old Magalia) to provide counseling to those in need of help on Thursdays between 11a-3p in the Church Library. No charge or obligation, just come talk to someone who can give you the emotional support you might need!
Cancer
Have cancer? Free help finding benefits for cancer patients and their families. Please text or call 205-565-1754 and tell us your name, what type of cancer, zip code, email address to send the information, and we will be able to provide specific help! Project Hope Butte Co. assists anyone going through chemo with free rides to get meds, financial assistance with medical bills, travel, medication; call 530-433-4131. If you need American Cancer Society services, you should call our National Cancer Information Center at 1-800-227-2345. For cancer patients, finding care in the wake of major disasters is challenging.
Diabetes/Insulin
Have diabetes? Free program for prescription assistance here. Here’s the Diabetes Disaster Response Coalition for resources, info. Call 800-DIABETES for info., access to supplies and more, M-F 6a-4p PST. PLEASE do NOT ration your insulin. Eli Lilly, one of the big 3 Insulin producers (headquartered in Indianapolis) have a program to assist anyone with insulin affordability. Call (833) 808-1234. You may have heard you can buy insulin without a prescription at WalMart for much, much less than insurance cost, asking them not to run the purchase through insurance. It costs $25. With insurance, it can be over $400/month. HOWEVER... Please read this article about that, from Insulin Nation (summary: it’s cheap because it’s inferior insulin).
Chiropractic Care
Free chiropractic care in Roseville (ID req’d). Dr. Zawada “is one of our area’s best chiropractors & is opening his healing doors to you!” Scott Zawada DC, 1441 Secret Ravine Pkwy Ste 140, Roseville 916 773 0999 zchiro773@gmail.com
Prescriptions
Paradise Medical Group can help you with in-person care and prescription refills, 227 Cohasset Rd., Chico. Passages Adult Resource Center: evacuated older adults trying to navigate filling/replacing prescriptions, please contact Passages at 530-898-5923 for help! Emergency Prescriptions information: California State Board of Pharmacy reminds all that, under the state of emergency declared by the Governor in Butte County, there are laws that can help evacuees refill lost prescriptions (see link).
Women’s Health
Project Hope Butte Co. assisting breast cancer patients in chemo w/transportation, financial assistance with medical bills, travel, medication. Please call 530-433-4131. Women’s Health Specialists, 1469 Humboldt Rd. Ste. 200, Chico. Free rides to and from medical appointments. To schedule appointment: 530-891-1911. Free and low-cost care for all genders.
Glasses, Eye exams
VSP partners with Lens Crafters’ nonprofit, OneSight, to provide gift vouchers for wildfire survivors. See your local Lens Crafters for assistance with referrals to get them in for exams and glasses at no charge to them. VSP also has emergency vouchers. Red Cross will replace your prescription glasses that burned. Call Sacramento Red Cross at 916-993-7070 and nurse Rita or Misty will call you back. She will then mail you a certificate for $482 for glasses (no contacts). It can be used for exam and frames anywhere. Chico Eye Center is still doing free eye exams for survivors.
Health Clinics
Free and low-cost medical/dental clinics near Chico. New patients, walk-ins welcome! Accepts most insurance health plans, including Medicare and Medi-Cal. Sliding scale fee for those without insurance, 530-788-2748, Ampla Health. Free flu shots: Butte Co. Health Dept., 6950 Oleander Ave., Chico 530-891-2871 for appt.
Free monthly health and development screenings for kids 0-5. By Bright Futures and Help Me Grow of Sutter Co Mahal Plaza, 1719 Franklin Ave., 11-2. Positive discipline, motor skills, oral, vision, speech, cognitive, hearing screening. 530-822-7505.
Adventist Health Feather River: Have re-opened clinics in Paradise, Chico & Corning. Home health, hospice, home oxygen back online. Primary care, OB/GYN, midwifery, oncology, physical therapy, specialty care. Chemo, oncology are in Marysville. Corning offering dental care, as well. Hotline: 530-872-2000, adventisthealthfeatherriver.org Prescriptions: take to local pharmacy & get emergency refills, or call hotline.
With Enloe Medical Center’s help Butte Co. has set up a clinic for minor medical care. The clinic will be open Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., at Mission Ranch Primary Care (114 Mission Ranch Blvd #10, Chico). The clinic is for evacuees, especially those needing medical refills.
Medical Supplies
PG&E will reduce your bill if you are reliant on medical equipment or have particular medical heating/cooling needs. See information about the Medical Baseline Program on the PGE website.
Shield Health Care: “Please call us - (800) 675-8842 (press option 1) - if your medical supplies have been destroyed. You do not need to be a current Shield customer to receive supplies. We will replace them for free and deliver them to wherever you are.” (includes adult/child diapers, formula, catheters, ostomy supplies, etc.)
Prosthetics: Ultra Prosthetics and Orthotics will fly you into Carson City, NV, and pay for your lodging and make you a prosthetic in a week and fly you back home. We will also travel to you if you cannot come here. We are available 24/7 if you have questions or are in need of any prosthetic care or supplies, 800-858-7276 or email office@ultraprosthetics.com
Used wheelchairs and equipment for sale here.
Disabilities
Camp Fire Disabilities page for people to come together and tell their stories, get support.
Short video w/info for Camp Fire survivors. Call 916-361-0380 for disability, access, functional need help; 711 if TTY.
Call the Disability Action Center in Chico at 893-8527 (Housing Specialists are Sandra Morales-Miller and Sor Lo). Services are free to anyone with a disability, and they have donated/loaner equipment and resources! And in Redding, 2876 Park Marina Dr., 530-242-8550.
Services for kids on the autism spectrum: Call/text Yellow Door at 530/518-2495.
B-Line Paratransit (formerly Chico Clipper) provides door-to-door transportation services to disabled or senior riders. Advance registration 24 hours in advance. One-way $2.50.
JOIN US IN A COLLECTIVE MOVEMENT TO CO-CREATE A MORE CARING WORLD
Era of Care works within the healers' community to provide gentle services to regions requesting care in times of crisis. We offer workshops, events, and services that are designed to respond directly to the needs of a community. Donate to Era of Care and you will be directly supporting the growth of a strong network of healers & helpers who can help others, maybe even you or someone you love!
Era of Care works within the healers' community to provide gentle services to regions requesting care in times of crisis. We offer workshops, events, and services that are designed to respond directly to the needs of a community. Donate to Era of Care and you will be directly supporting the growth of a strong network of healers & helpers who can help others, maybe even you or someone you love!
Crowd sourced, transparent and volunteer driven, Era of Care is part of EoMega,a fiscally sponsored 501c3 non-profit community care and education organization. All donations are tax-deductible.
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