FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 6, 2022
Contact: Wendy Garrish
San Mateo, CA: In Celebration with Caminar is an evening of cause, community, and connection featuring keynote speaker Marlee Matlin, Oscar-winning actress, activist, and author. The event will also feature a live concert by Cuban saxophonist and composer Maikel Garcia. Proceeds raised will help meet the behavioral health needs of our community’s most vulnerable adolescents, young adults, and families. Caminar, a nonprofit organization, reaches more than 14,000 Bay Area residents annually through compassionate and science-based mental health and substance use treatment services.
Who: Marlee Matlin | Maikel Garcia | Mark Cloutier, Caminar CEO | >200supporters, community leaders, mental health advocates and music fans
What: In Celebration with Caminar, an event to raise funds and awareness of the behavioral health needs of adolescents, young adults, and families. The event will feature keynote speaker Marlee Matlin, a live concert by Maikel Garcia, and Caminar CEO Mark Cloutier.
Where: Fox Theatre Redwood City
When: Saturday, October 8th, 2022, 5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. PT
Event Timeline
5:00 p.m. Pre-Reception with Marlee Matlin
6:00 p.m. Reception
7:00 p.m. Opening Remarks, Keynote by Marlee Matlin, “A Family’s Journey” Video, Fund-A-Need
8:00 p.m. Festive Food and Drinks, Live Concert by Cuban Saxophonist and Composer Maikel Garcia
9:30 p.m. End of Event
Why: This is Caminar’s largest fundraising event of the year, and it will help secure crucial funds and awareness of the behavioral health needs of our community’s most vulnerable individuals. No one should suffer because they lack access to quality, affordable behavioral health care.
Behavioral health conditions can feel lonely and solitary. Yet, one person’s hardships affect so many others. The benefits of the education, prevention, treatment, and recovery services our donors make possible ripple far beyond an individual and out to families, schools, workplaces, and the entire community.
Media: Contact Wendy Garrish, Director of Marketing & Communications at 650.513.8667.
Speaker and performer bios and photos are available by request.
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About Caminar Founded in 1964 as a mission-driven, community-based behavioral health care agency, Caminar helps 14,000+ people annually in the Bay Area. Driven by compassion, science, and an understanding of root causes, Caminar delivers high-quality prevention, treatment, and recovery services to those with complex mental health, substance use, and co-occurring needs. Caminar conducts client assessments, provides evidence-based psychiatric care and therapy, medication management, domestic violence prevention and care, support for clients who are unhoused or seeking employment, LGBTQ+ programs for youth and adults, and school-based services to help students and train teachers.
About In Celebration with Caminar In Celebration with Caminar is led by co-chairs Michael & Kathy Chinn and Crysta Krames & Clayton Peters. Major event sponsors include Michael & Kathy Chinn, Linda & Richard Leao, Rod & Jo-Ann Sockolov, Celeste P. Birkhofer, PhD, PsyD & Wendell W. Birkhofer, Dr. Joseph Haggerty & Diane Haggerty, Crysta Krames & Clayton Peters and Betsy & Bill Pace. Corporate sponsors include Newfront, Bank of America, BPM, San Mateo County Association of Realtors Foundation, Hanson Crawford Crum, Fremont Hospital, Heritage Bank, Law Office of Michelle Leu Zaccone, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Kaiser Permanente, Fraenkel Gallery, HEALTHTrust, and Hoover + Krepelka Family Law Attorneys. Media partners include The Almanac, Palo Alto Weekly and Palo Alto Online, NOB HILL Gazette, San Francisco Business Times, The Daily Journal and Punch Magazine. Arrangements for the appearance of Marlee Matlin made through UTA Speakers, New York, NY. More information is available online.
