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King Brown<br />
SSNC BoaRD oF TRUSTEES<br />
kIng BRown HAs Been just about everything a volunteer<br />
can be at <strong>NCPHS</strong>: Board member beginning in 1989,<br />
alternating as Trustee and Board member since then and<br />
Chair of multiple committees.<br />
In his most recent role, King has been the shepherd for<br />
a new and exciting expansion in <strong>NCPHS</strong>’ Community<br />
Services. Beginning in 2009, with fellow Board member<br />
David Jamison (also on the <strong>NCPHS</strong> Board), King pursued<br />
the possibility of affiliating with the San Francisco Senior<br />
Center (SFSC), the nation’s oldest senior center. “It was<br />
clear that there were a great many commonalities that could<br />
work to the advantage of both organizations,” he says. Given<br />
this as a basis, both groups began to explore ways of turning<br />
their similarities into concrete, complementary actions.<br />
Two programs, in particular, illustrate the potential<br />
synergy that King and his colleagues on the <strong>NCPHS</strong> Board<br />
hoped to achieve. As one of its five Community Services<br />
programs, <strong>NCPHS</strong> helps disadvantaged seniors stay in<br />
their homes. Called Living at Home, this program blends<br />
seamlessly with one offered by SFSC called Homecoming<br />
Transitional Care Program which provides services to<br />
bridge the gap between a hospital stay and a return to home.<br />
Through a long legal process to mesh the people and<br />
systems of the two organizations together, King, who is<br />
an estate planning attorney, provided the continuity and<br />
the vision to make this affiliation work. “Community<br />
services are where the power of the <strong>NCPHS</strong> community<br />
is harnessed to make a difference,” says King.<br />
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