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3/21/2019

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Meet BIRIDIANA "BIRI" URIBE
Case Manager
​By: Barbara Chalmers

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Caring Companions was founded by Emmanuel Verduzco in 2018 to improve the daily lives of senior citizens living in our Central Coast communities by making a wide range of free and subsidized services available to them for the first time. Biridiana Uribe has been at his side from day one, helping to translate his vision into reality, and serving the community she loves. Her guiding philosophy in life and at work is quite simple: “You take care of each other, no matter what”.

As Case Manager for the organization, Ms. Uribe provides both administrative support and direct client services to Caring Companions. On the business side she manages scheduling, payroll and invoicing; processes client applications for services; coordinates appointments; and obtains feedback from service providers. She also works directly with her clients and their families. Her goal is to match what the family is looking for with their budgets, then to find a way to get them what they need. She coordinates transition services for new clients; orders supplies and arranges for their delivery; and accompanies clients to appointments while relaying messages to the family. She also makes home visits to check in on the well-being of her clients, and always makes sure to touch base with the family caregivers to see how they’re doing. Ms. Uribe wants her clients and their families to know that she loves to help and will always try to get them what they need. She wants them to know they can count on continuity of care, and that she is available to handle emergencies, run errands and enjoy a drive or lunch after a doctor’s appointment. She knows she’s done a good job when she hears relief in the voice of a client or caregiver, or gets a smile or a hug or a thank you when she leaves.

Ms. Uribe lives in Santa Barbara with her husband and teenage son, and is devoted to her extended family and to her community. Her dad and husband coach her son’s soccer team, and she helps her parents create events that help kids play soccer and stay of the streets and out of trouble. She studied at Santa Barbara City College and has worked with Mr. Verduzco in the caregiving field for the past three years. She is passionate about helping people, and she loves what she does. In her spare time Ms. Uribe enjoys working out and watching old movies from the 1980s, but mostly she just loves being with people. 
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11/28/2019 04:02:00 pm

I don't know what to do with myself anymore. I don't have any motivation to work. I don't know what I want. I don't even know what are the things that are acceptable for me to do. I just do as told. I don't remember being like this when I was younger. I guess it happens to everyone. When we are done chasing people and things, we just wake up one day and we just stop loving them. Did we really intend for this to happen? Did we ask for it? Maybe yes.

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    About the Author

    Barbara Chalmers enjoyed a challenging career serving the Department of Defense as a contract manager and negotiator. Over time she assumed leadership roles that enhanced equal employment opportunity within her agency and improved fundraising techniques for the Combined Federal Campaign. Her volunteer activities included participation in children’s reading programs and teaching classes at the Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance. Barbara currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Parkinson Association Santa Barbara and the Carriage Hill Homeowners Association, and is a proud blogger for Caring Companions of Santa Barbara.

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