Breathe California of Sacramento-Emigrant Trails provides education, advocacy, and research support to improve lung health and air quality.

Services include:

• Public education about the health impacts of air pollution
• Youth-focused programs promoting lung health and tobacco prevention
• Policy advocacy to improve air quality standards
• Community partnerships and research support related to clean air

Web pages

• Home - https://sacbreathe.org/

Well Connected (formerly Senior Center Without Walls) and Well Connected Español are phone and online programs offering activities, education, friendly conversation, and an assortment of classes and support groups to older adults accessible from the comfort of home. The programs consist of participants, staff, facilitators, presenters, and other volunteers who care about each other, and who value being connected to engaging content, and to each other. All activities are free to participants and are available in English and Spanish.

Well Connected members can play a game, learn a language, write a poem, go on a virtual tour, meditate, share a gratitude, get support, and most importantly, connect and engage with others every day across the country. Well Connected is a Community Service of Covia and is free of charge to all participants and available to adults over the age of 60.

Web pages

• Well Connected - https://frontporch.net/connect/well-connected/
• Well Connected Español - https://fron…

The Grief Recovery Institute (GRI) offers an evidence-based program to help individuals work through grief related to many types of loss, including death, divorce, job changes, and relocation. 

The Grief Recovery Method is an educational, action-based process and is not counseling or therapy.

Resources include:

• A structured grief recovery program
• Group workshops and self-guided options
• A free downloadable informational e-book

This program is not an ongoing support group and does not replace professional mental health care.

Web pages

• Home - https://www.griefrecoverymethod.com/
• Free E-Book - https://offers.griefrecoverymethod.com/guide-for-loss-ebook1642023353451

Arthritis Foundation is the largest nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention, control and cure of America's leading cause of disability. They have a Helpline team to help answer questions about arthritis and how to manage it. They can tell you about open enrollment for insurance, important changes to Medicare drug plans, treatment options, navigating medical systems and more.

Web pages

• Home - https://www.arthritis.org/

The American Kidney Fund provides direct financial assistance to kidney patients in need and education for those with and at risk for kidney disease.

Web pages

• Home - https://www.kidneyfund.org/

CancerCare helps people cope with the challenges of cancer. 

Professional oncology social workers provide the following services:

• Support groups
• Educational workshops
• Publications
• Financial help for treatments
• Financial help for travel to and/or from medical appointments (as funding is available)

Web Pages

• Home - https://www.cancercare.org

NAMI Nevada County (National Alliance for Mental Illness) is a grassroots, family, and consumer self-help support and advocacy organization dedicated to improving the lives of people with severe mental illnesses such as:

• Schizophrenia
• Bipolar disorder (manic depressive)
• Clinical depression
• Panic disorder
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

NAMI offers support groups and educational classes for families experiencing a mental illness, such as:

• Family Support
  • IN PERSON Support Meetings
    Twin Cities Church - Room 129
    (enter the on the far left side of the church)
    1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month
    5:30 - 7:30pm
    
    ZOOM Online Support Meetings
    2nd and 4th Tuesday of every month
    5:30 - 7:30pm
• Family to Family education class (two times yearly)
• Monthly general education meetings

NAMI Family Support Group

Support groups are provided each week. Go to the website for specific locations and times. Specific questions may be sent to info@naminevadacounty…

Psychology Today offers grief and bereavement resources.

• Nevada County
• Placer County
  
  

Web pages

• Home - https://www.psychologytoday.com/us
• Nevada County - https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/groups/ca/nevada-county?category=grief
• Placer County - https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/groups/ca/placer-county?category=grief