Our Community
Staff
Vickie Epstein, Program Director
Vickie Epstein earned her MSW degree from Saint Louis University in Missouri. She conducted most of her early work in hospital settings, including five years at O’Connor Hospital in San Jose. Vickie was recruitment director for Child Advocates and served as Director of Program Services for the Jewish Community Center in Los Gatos.
Elizabeth Guare, Manager
Elizabeth has a B.A. in Psychology from the State University of New York. Elizabeth comes to us from the Staff Services office for the Esther B. Clark School at the Children's Health Council and has significant experience in the field of non-profit management and in providing exemplary customer service.
Annie Hagstrom, Liaison Palo Alto Medical Foundation
Annie has a B.A in Liberal Studies from Arizona State University. Annie is originally from Toronto, Canada, where she spent 15 years working in the fashion industry in design and merchandising and eventually teaching at the International Academy of Design. She has developed a passion for philanthropy and volunteering and spent the last few years working with the University of Arizona Cancer Center, developing grant proposals for supportive services.
Strategic Alliances
Avenidas Village has developed alliances with medical providers to help assure that when a member has a question or problem when hospitalized, we will be able to assist them as requested. Our current alliances include Palo Alto Medical Foundation, El Camino and Stanford University Hospitals, and Kaiser-Permanente.
Avenidas Village Advisory Group 2012
This aging-in-place program was designed by members of the mid-Peninsula community, together with the nonprofit senior services agency, Avenidas.
- Richard Adler
- Vickie Epstein
- Ellen Gonella
- Sam Gordon
- Barbara Gunther
- Richard Gunther
- Bruce Heister
- Naomi Levinson
- John Melton
- Mary Minkus
- Margaret Ann Niven
- Tom Reese
- Marcia Rehmus
- Sandra Milne Rickard
- Deborah Rosenberg
- Alma Silverthorn
- Richard Scott
- Ellen Uhrbrock
- Dawn Wilcox
Avenidas Staff
- Lisa Hendrickson
- Kari Martell
- John Sink
- Elizabeth Guare
Our Founders
Various members of the mid-Peninsula community strongly believe in the strength of this program, and they donated money towards some of program’s start-up costs. Our thanks go to the following Founders:
- Ed & Margaret Arnold
- Harry Berland
- Allan & Marilyn Brown
- Betty Brown
- Fran Codispoti
- Mike Couch
- John & Patricia Davis
- Thomas Ehrlich
- William Floyd
- Paul Garrett
- Bob & Jean Gee
- Nancy Goldcamp
- Carroll Harrington
- Bruce & Eleanor Heister
- Don Kobrin
- Walter & Mary McCullough
- Mary & Les Minkus
- William F. Nichols
- Tom & Carolyn Reese
- Marcia Rehmus
- Bill & Carolyn Reller
- Deborah Rosenberg
- Paul & Maureen Roskoph
- Elizabeth Schneider
- Dick & Jerry Smallwood
- Tom & Ellen Wyman
- Heidi Baum
- Nancy Weeks Rossen
- Solon & Diane Finkelstein
- Ginny Kavanaugh
