Serving seniors during COVID has been a priority for Assembly Majority Leader Reyes. She has held a Senior Advocacy Week every year since she was elected in 2016. This week Assembly Majority Leader Eloise Reyes visited several senior living facilities for her 5th Annual Senior Advocacy Week from September 27th to October 1st, providing them with facemasks, hand sanitizer and food resources that will help them during the Covid-19 pandemic. Earlier this year the Majority Leader’s Office hosted a Senior Check-in Project where her office called to check in on seniors and encouraged them to reach out to others. To complement the check in calls, the Majority Leader sent out postcards to seniors across the 47th District expressing her appreciation for seniors and reminding them of the constituent services her district office provides.
Senior Advocacy Week would not have been possible without the partnership with UNITEEE, Community Action Partnership of San Bernardino County (CAPSBC), State Council on Developmental Disabilities (SCCD), Autism Society, and Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP). Through this collaboration, Senior Advocacy Week served over 1300 seniors and provided them with food boxes and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) including facemasks, hand sanitizers, stress balls, and literature with different local and state resources for seniors. Mrs. Wynona Francis, a senior from one of the visits, remarked, “I received a red bag and food box. The items were lots of help because I don’t have to go out to get certain things. It was so helpful and now I have sanitizers and lots of facemasks.”
“It is critical that we continue to check in on our seniors. We are not out of this pandemic yet and our senior community must not be forgotten,” said Assembly Majority Leader Reyes. “This is my 5th year of Senior Advocacy Week and I am thankful to our partners that helped us provide the important resources and food boxes for our seniors.”
The mission of Senior Advocacy Week is to listen to the issues that are affecting our seniors and provide resources to help them. We must continue to take a proactive approach to address the issues that affect their daily lives.
“I want to first start by thanking you and your team for providing these amazing resources to our residents. I received tremendous feedback from our residents who appreciated the opportunity to meet Assembly Majority Leader Eloise Reyes. It’s nice to have someone who is willing to actually put in the work to take care of their district," said Dameon Cutrer, Property Manager I, of Blue Mountain Senior Villa in Grand Terrace.
“Our seniors here at Heritage Park really enjoy our visits from the Assemblymember, it makes us feel important that she continues to keep us and our issues in mind, and they loved the red bags with the PPE and were very appreciative of the food boxes that were donated to us by her office, this year. Thank you all for the work you do!” said Andrea Rangel of Heritage Park Apartments in Rialto.
“We often take for granted the basic necessities of life; food! For our Seniors, that's often a thought that's on their minds. We at Bloomington/Lilian Court apartments appreciate the efforts of Assemblymember Reyes and her team to ensure that they are constantly advocated for. Thank you," said Margarito Cuen of PATH in Bloomington.
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