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DESERT SAMARITANS FOR THE ELDERLY
"Enhancing Quality of Life for the Elderly .... Today and Tomorrow"
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BOARD

Andy Duvall - President

Barry K. Williams - Vice President

Kay Hanson - Secretary

Mary Hansen-Faris - Treasurer

Suzy Friedland

Jean Ann Hirschi

Judy Vossler


STAFF

Bill Seals - Senior Director
bill@dsfte.org


Dena Bates - Program Director

dena@dsfte.org

Mary Steele - Program Services Assistant
mary@dsfte.org

Lisa Karr - Special Event and Volunteer Director
lisa@dsfte.org

Helen Whelchel - Outreach Coordinator
helen@dsfte.org
   
Lila Alex - Administrative Assistant
lila@dsfte.org

MISSION STATEMENT
"To share God's love by providing assistance to elderly citizens in the Coachella Valley
to enhance quality of life in their senior years"

HISTORY

Desert Samaritans for the Elderly is the outgrowth of the "Golden Group Foundation", an organization formed in 1976 and spearheaded the building of the valley’s only non-profit retirement and health care center, opening in 1986 as the Carlotta Retirement and Care Center.

In 1997, the non-profit Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society sold the Carlotta to a for profit organization. After the Carlotta was sold, Desert Samaritans for the Elderly was founded by the members of the former Carlotta’s Resource Development Fund and Advisory Boards to continue the Good Samaritan mission by providing programming and financial aid to elderly citizens throughout the Coachella Valley.

Since then, Desert Samaritans has cared for tens of thousands of seniors that other organizations have not been able to help. In 2007, we moved into our current offices in the Berger Center in Palm Desert.