The United Seniors of Oakland and Alameda County
The Healthy Living Festival
HLF Promotional Video
The Healthy Living Festival (HLF) is a free event and has grown in 16 years to become the largest older adult-focused health-related action event throughout Alameda County.
The HLF “for seniors and those who love them” draws each year an average of more than 2,200 participants countywide.
The Healthy Living Festival provides older adults with transportation from designated Senior Centers to and from the event and other opportunities, including a Zoo Walk, information and resource booths, socializing amongst each another while providing a healthy lunch.
This event involves extensive walking and physical activity. Please bring an attendant if you may have mobility issues. Seniors and “those who love them” look forward to the Healthy Living Festival year-after-year as an informative and active day out.
As an incentive, when taking public transportation AC Transit line #46, a free family four pack of zoo tickets will be provided for use at a later date. Please get here early!
16th Annual Healthy Living Festival
Thursday, September 19, 2019
8 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Oakland Zoo - 9777 Golf Links Road, Oakland
$10 parking
Release and Liability Form HLF 2019
Online Submit Release and Liability Form HLF 2019
Please fill out the release of liability form, and bring this with you on the day of the event. DO NOT MAIL THIS FORM IN.
OUR PROGRAMS
Travel Training:
Course for Older Adults 55+
Expand your horizons and travel options! Learn to ride Alameda County’s public transit to get where you want to go with confidence, independence and ease.
Receive guidance and training while learning the necessary skills to ride AC Transit and BART and other Bay Area forms of public transit.
USOAC in partnership with Center for Independent Living (CIL) is training older and disabled adults.
For More Information, please contact Chonita Chew at (510) 729-0851.
Walk Club:
In 2003 USOAC was the only non-profit organization in the State of California to receive the Robert Wood Johnson
Funding for Seniors to create and promote walkable communities.
The USOAC currently has 31 Walk Clubs throughout Alameda County, promoting and fighting for Walkable Neighborhoods.
Please join Team USOAC every September for the Walk to End Alzheimer’s.
If you are interested in joining or forming a Walk Club please contact us.
Who We Are
The USOAC is a grassroots, multi-ethnic, intergenerational nonprofit organization focused on issues of concern to Alameda County seniors and their allies. USOAC utilizes techniques to educate, mobilize and enable seniors and their supporters to address the issues that affect their quality of life. In 1986, USOAC started organizing seniors and their allies to address shrinking resources for older adults at both the local and regional levels. For more than 25 years USOAC has helped to empower older adults throughout Alameda County by serving as a catalyst for a positive change and contributing to the betterment of senior citizens and the broader community. USOAC collaborates with the disabled
communities, youth, senior service providers and others. USOAC has more than 5,000 individual members, chapter and affiliates throughout Alameda County.
Our Vision:
Empowering Seniors through…
- Leadership Development
- Community Organizing
- Issue Identification
- Actions & Advocacy
- Outreach
- Education & Training
2016 Priorities:
- Older Adult Travel Trainng - Healthy Living Festival
- Holistic Medicine - Safe medication disposal of unwanted medicine
- Medication Management
- Walkable Neighborhoods for Seniors
- Comprehensive Countywide Senior Plan
- Walkable Neighborhoods for Seniors/Walk Clubs
- Increase community organizing and advocacy for senior resources and funding
Mission Statement:
“To provide institutional support for Seniors, to collectively participate in the public arena, to act from a position of strength, to enable the elderly to address the critical issues, and to change the conditions that impact their lives.”
OUR PROGRAMS
Travel Training:
Course for Older Adults 55+
Expand your horizons and travel options! Learn to ride Alameda County’s public transit to get where you want to go with confidence, independence and ease.
Receive guidance and training while learning the necessary skills to ride AC Transit and BART and other Bay Area forms of public transit.
USOAC is training older and disabled adults.
For More Information, please contact Chonita Chew at 1.510.729.0851
Walk Club:
In 2003 USOAC was the only non-profit organization in the State of California to receive the Robert Wood Johnson
Funding for Seniors to create and promote walkable communities.
The USOAC currently has 31 Walk Clubs throughout Alameda County, promoting and fighting for Walkable Neighborhoods.
In 2019 USOAC has been restructuring the Walk Club program to include pedestrian safety and audits of walk routes. Please join us every 2nd Friday of the month to here the latest of these additions. If you are interested in joining or forming a Walk Club please contact Sarah at 1.510.729.0852.
USOAC BBQ Fundraiser:
Please join USOAC for our for our BBQ fundraiser at Roderick's, Sunday, September 29th from 1pm-5pm. Enjoy ribs, chicken or fish dinners, plus music and dancing on the patio. Cash and Checks accepted. Please make checks payable to United Seniors of Oakland and Alameda County
Donations can be mailed or dropped off at USOAC 7200 Bancroft Ave Suite #270 Monday through Friday 9-5pm.
USOAC BBQ Flyer for more details.