Date of Next Meeting: August 16, 2019 12:00pm-1:30pm
Lunch will be served from 12-12:30 pm, Speaker begins at 12:30 pm
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Note: This meeting is intended for social workers only and is not open to all professions. Please only RSVP if you are a Licensed Social Worker, or are currently a social work student.
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August Meeting Location
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St. James Episcopal Church Founders Hall
Address: 1941 Webberville Rd., Austin, TX 78721 Website: www.stjamesaustin.org/ Phone: (512) 926-6339 Parking Instructions: Parking available on-site Lunch Sponsor Belmont Village About Belmont Village: Belmont Village Senior Living has flourished as the preferred Assisted Living provider, establishing itself in multiple regions in the United States. Locally, Belmont Village privately owns and operates two communities in Westlake Hills and Lakeway, TX. Our Belmont Village Lakeway community offers Independent Living, Assisted Living and Memory Care and our Belmont Village Westlake Hills community offers Assisted Living and Memory Care. At Belmont Village, we provide places where seniors lead healthy and purposeful lives, under the care of staff who truly understand their needs. The continuum we offer supports residents when their care needs change, which truly allows our residents to age in place. Throughout long-standing partnerships with premiere research universities and gerontology experts, Belmont Village has developed a unique wellness culture composed of dynamic, goal driven programs for Assisted Living and Memory Care, all promoting whole brain fitness. The whole foundation of Belmont Village emerged from research institutions and consultants who guided and helped design the programs we offer. Aging is a gift, we invite you to embrace it with us and be a part of our community and family. Belmont Village Senior Living, a community built for life. |
August Meeting Speaker and Topic
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Austin LGBT Coalition on Aging
Toby Johnson & Barry Waller
About Toby Johnson: Toby Johnson, PhD, former Catholic monk and comparative religions scholar turned gay psychotherapist, community organizer, AIDS educator, bookseller, editor and book designer, novelist and gay cultural commentator has been a gay activist since the early 1970s in San Francisco. He is author of six non-fiction books that present spiritual wisdom he learned from his mentor and friend, renowned religions scholar Joseph Campbell, including Gay Spirituality: Gay Identity and the Transformation of Human Consciousness, and four gay genre novels.
Johnson and his partner since 1984, Kip Dollar, ran Liberty Books, the lesbian/gay community bookstore in Austin for seven years in the 80s and 90s. They were the first male couple registered as Domestic Partners in Texas in 1993. They were legally married on their 34th anniversary.
Toby Johnson has a webpage at tobyjohnson.com.
About Barry Waller: For over 36 years, Barry Waller has worked in the mental health, intellectual disabilities, physical disabilities, and aging fields at both the community and state agency levels in various administrative and management positions. As the Texas Legislature combined various state agencies, Barry went to work at the Department of Aging and Disability Services(DADS) as Assistant Commissioner over Provider Services. In this position, he managed directly administered services and various contracts with several thousand providers of disability and/or aging services throughout Texas.
Now retired, Barry spends his time working with various community and volunteer organizations. He served for nine years on the Board of Directors at AIDS Services of Austin, where he still remains as a volunteer. He has also serves twice on the Board of Directors for OutYouth Austin and currently serves on the HIV Planning Council, a workgroup at the City of Austin on the City’s Age-Friendly Plan, and the Steering Committee of the LGBT Coalition on Aging.
Toby Johnson & Barry Waller
About Toby Johnson: Toby Johnson, PhD, former Catholic monk and comparative religions scholar turned gay psychotherapist, community organizer, AIDS educator, bookseller, editor and book designer, novelist and gay cultural commentator has been a gay activist since the early 1970s in San Francisco. He is author of six non-fiction books that present spiritual wisdom he learned from his mentor and friend, renowned religions scholar Joseph Campbell, including Gay Spirituality: Gay Identity and the Transformation of Human Consciousness, and four gay genre novels.
Johnson and his partner since 1984, Kip Dollar, ran Liberty Books, the lesbian/gay community bookstore in Austin for seven years in the 80s and 90s. They were the first male couple registered as Domestic Partners in Texas in 1993. They were legally married on their 34th anniversary.
Toby Johnson has a webpage at tobyjohnson.com.
About Barry Waller: For over 36 years, Barry Waller has worked in the mental health, intellectual disabilities, physical disabilities, and aging fields at both the community and state agency levels in various administrative and management positions. As the Texas Legislature combined various state agencies, Barry went to work at the Department of Aging and Disability Services(DADS) as Assistant Commissioner over Provider Services. In this position, he managed directly administered services and various contracts with several thousand providers of disability and/or aging services throughout Texas.
Now retired, Barry spends his time working with various community and volunteer organizations. He served for nine years on the Board of Directors at AIDS Services of Austin, where he still remains as a volunteer. He has also serves twice on the Board of Directors for OutYouth Austin and currently serves on the HIV Planning Council, a workgroup at the City of Austin on the City’s Age-Friendly Plan, and the Steering Committee of the LGBT Coalition on Aging.