The American Heart Association is a national voluntary health agency whose mission is to reduce disability and death from cardiovascular diseases and stroke.

Web pages 

• Home - https://www.heart.org/en/affiliates/california/sacramento

Breathe California of Sacramento Emigrant Trails is dedicated to healthy air and preventing lung and other air-pollution-related diseases by partnering with youth, advocating public policy, supporting air pollution research, and educating the public.

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 - covia.org/services/well-connected/
• Well Connected Español - …

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The Grief Recovery Institute (GRI) evidence-based Grief Recovery Method helps people move through grief resulting from losses of many kinds. Losses may include death, divorce, end of relationships, job or career changes, moving, and many more. The process is detailed in The Grief Recovery Handbook and other GRI publications and workshops. The program can be done by using the book on its own, or with a group. The Grief Recovery Method is an educational, action-based program. It is not counseling or therapy. It is also not an ongoing support group.
 
GRI offers a free downloadable informational e-book, publishes several books, offers workshops, and trains Grief Recovery Specialists internationally.
 

Web pages

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

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/

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 (O.C.D)
• P.T.S.D.

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
• And more on NAMI's website: https://www.naminevadacounty.org/support

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Psychology Todayoffers grief and bereavement resources.   

• Nevada County
• Placer County

Websites:

• Main page - 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