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Executive Director :
Elaine Welch
Elaine has been an RN since 1971. In 1979, she earned her MBA from St. Mary’s College in Moraga, California. Twenty-five years of her career were spent with Kaiser Permanente, primarily in the corporate offices, with responsibility for Medicare compliance in all Kaiser regions throughout the United States. She specialized in Medicare benefits and coverage, utilization, and quality of care and services for the elderly and disabled. After retiring in 1998, she became a long term care ombudsman for Contra Costa County, an adult literacy tutor and board member for Project Second Chance, Medicare consultant, senior advocate, and youth mentor - all on a volunteer basis. A combination of boredom and concern about the plight of seniors trying to age in their own homes without proper support, brought her out of retirement in January 2002, to become the Reassurance Program Director for Senior Helpline Services. In August 2002, she became the Executive Director. In September 2005, she started a free volunteer driver program at Senior Helpline Services, and just over two years later added a home safety/falls prevention program.
After having volunteered with Contra Costa for Every Generation since its inception, and then serving as a Board member, she was selected to become the organization’s first Executive Director in August 2008.
Board of Directors :
The Board of Directors is comprised of experts and representatives
from the community covering a broad range of backgrounds from healthcare, legal,
public officials, mental health, social services and business background.
President: Margaret Oliveri
She comes to CCEG after 30 years in the corporate world of insurance management and a lifetime of volunteering. Early in 2009, she relocated to northern California to start up the KNOW HOW NETWORK, which places skilled professional volunteers 55 + with nonprofits to complete projects that increase their impact capacity and service missions. Her lifelong commitment to volunteerism has led her to volunteer in each community she has lived throughout the United States and Europe, serving in various capacities, from answering phones to serving as Board President, for military, civic, educational and faith based non-profit agencies.
Vice President: Barbara Smith
She is a long- time community volunteer. Her most recent civic activities have included service as a board member of John Muir Medical Center (1990-1997) and board member of John Muir/Mt. Diablo Community Health Fund (1999-2006). A dedicated California history buff, she founded the history docent program at Oakland’s Mountain View Cemetery, where she conducts tours.
Secretary: Anne Sanabria
She has worked with area seniors in both Contra Costa and Alameda counties for over 17 years in a variety of long-term care facilities in the areas of administration, marketing, sales and community relations. She is currently working with Emeritus Senior Living in both Danville and Fremont locations. She serves as an officer for two community-based senior coalitions and is always ready for the next event or health fair.
Treasurer: Wesley M. Franklin
He is currently developing a church-based program that focuses on seniors who are homebound or who live in long-term care facilities. He recently served as a member of Contra Costa’s Advisory Council on Aging and as a Certified Long-Term Care Ombudsman for Alameda County. He has a passion for senior/aging issues and finding self-sustaining strategies/solutions for dealing with them. He is a former Executive Director of the California Public Utilities Commission where he was employed for 31 years. He co-created the California Utilities Diversity Council and has served on several university advisory boards and city commissions.
Katherine (Kitty) Barnes
She is currently the Director of Administrative Affairs for Shields Nursing Centers. Inc. She has provided consultation to the County Area Agency on Aging, served as Executive Director of a multi-service, not-for-profit agency in East Contra Costa County and as the Coordinator of the Contra Costa Contractors’ Alliance, an organization of over 20 not-for-profits and has served on several boards in Contra Costa County. In addition, she is a certified Trainer and a certified Conflict Mediator.
Gordon Freeman
He is Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation B'nai Shalom in Walnut Creek where he had been for thirty-eight years. Before that time, he served in the USAF as a chaplain in Mississippi and Ankara, Turkey. He earned a doctorate in Political Science with a concentration on public policy. He currently serves on the Board of the Walnut Creek Library Association and has been an officer in the Rabbinical Assembly, the international organization of Conservative Rabbis.
Gerhard Heinrich, MD
He is currently section chief for long-term inpatient care on the Medical Service of the VA Northern California Health Care System in Martinez. He is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine in the Clinical Volunteer Faculty Series of UC Davis. He is teaching Doctoring courses at the UC Davis School of Medicine and is participating in the training of Internal Medicine and Family Practice residents on the Medical Service of the VA Hospital in Mather. He is a member of the Pleasant Hill Commission on Aging and the Advisory Council of the Area Agency on Aging of Contra Costa County. Within the Advisory Council he has spear-headed a stroke response and prevention campaign that has lead to the production of two CCTV stroke shows and improved stroke recognition by the county EMS
Trevor Evans-Young
He is a former mayor of the city of Hercules, where his service also included appointments to the Hercules Community Services Commission, the Hercules Planning Commission, the Franklin Canyon Steering Committee, and four years on the Hercules City Council. He has a long career with the Social Security Administration and rose to be Deputy Regional Commissioner for Western States and Pacific Territories before his 1993 retirement. His volunteer record includes serving as the U.S. representative on the review of the Social Security System in the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Contra Costa Human Rights Commission, Contra Costa County Council on Aging, and several citizens’ advisory panels. He is one of the founders of the Hercules-Rodeo chapter of the NAACP. |
