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statewide collaboration of officials tasked with implementing and improving the program that provides in-home care to those with disabilities, ultimately becoming the northern region’s executive director. As its only paid employee, Bean served as the point person in overseeing operations in more than 30 member counties every year.

“He was so organized and hyper- focused,” Calderon recalls. “He was the consummate advocate. He related to people. That was one thing about him — he always tried to see both sides, whereas I, as an advocate, was more bullheaded.”

But while Bean was quick to build bridges and consensus where possible, his focus never wavered from those he advocated for, the people looking for help navigating public spaces or staying in their private homes. When the state’s IHHS program came into political crosshairs in the early 2010s due to fraud allegations, prompting the state to introduce unannounced home compliance checks, Calderon says recipients were terrified. But Bean was upfront and direct with them, she says, and wrangled a high-ranking state official onto a conference call with them to make sure “they could actually ask questions of people at the top.”

Lisa Marie Leon, the transition coordinator at Tri-County Independent Living, says Bean was simply the perfect person for the role.

“He was the right person to do it

because he was living it, and he was able to share his passion, share his strengths, share the weaknesses and work for change,” she says. “He lived his life to the fullest with passion and purpose, and he cared about people with disabilities and definitely made a change in their lives.” Evidence of Bean’s work is everywhere in the community, she says, pointing to the lower help desk in the county human resources department, the bus schedules posted just a bit lower Charlie Bean on one of his many to the ground so advocacy trips to Sacramento. they’re readable for Submitted those in wheelchairs, the handrails installed at the courthouse and the raised platform in the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors chamber, which allows everyone — even those in wheelchairs — to approach the podium, look their representatives in the eye and have their voices heard because “everyone is equal, everyone has right to participate.” But Leon says it was Bean’s passion for people that struck her the first day they met at Tri-County Independent Living. “I just fell in love with him the day I met him,” she says. “I loved him immediately. He always has a smile on his face, always has a positive attitude and is in good spirits. Always willing to help. He just has a huge heart.” And those close to Bean have countless examples of that big heart in action — from the cookies he’d bring into the office to the gifts he’d give co-workers and their kids; gifts for Christmas, birthdays and

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even Valentine’s Day. But Leon and others say Bean’s bulging heart was perhaps most apparent in his work. Leon points to a “Roll and Stroll” event in late 2018 designed to raise money for accessibility improvements at Sequoia Park, where Bean would later consult on making sure the recently opened Redwood Sky Walk would be not only accessible, but user-friendly. Bean worked hard coordinating the 2018 fundraiser but was hospitalized shortly before the event. Leon says an undaunted Bean convinced his doctors to discharge him so he could attend the event, pledging to return immediately after to be re-admitted.

“That’s how strong his passion was,” she says. “He was just an incredible man.”

A memorial for Bean will be held at Eureka’s First Presbyterian Church at 1 p.m. on Aug. 7, and all who knew him are welcome to attend. His family asks that donations of flowers be sent to the church in advance of the service, and donations in his honor can be made to CICA (181 Anne Way, Los Gatos, CA 95032). In a brief statement to the Journal, Carolyn Bean, Charlie’s wife and caretaker under

the IHHS program he fought to protect and expand, says her husband was the love of her life and will be dearly missed by all who knew him. In his final years, though many didn’t know it, Bean had been in and out of the hospital and undergone numerous surgeries and procedures. When the end came, it seems fitting he was at home, receiving care through a program he’d fought tirelessly to expand and protect for years. “He was larger than life,” Calderon says, adding that Bean’s impact stretched well Please change the tables to read like this: beyond Humboldt County, to thousands of advocates and people living with disabilities — people like him — throughout LIS Annual Income Limit Person(s) Annual Income Limit Individuals/Couples $19,320/$26,130 the state. “He was always hyper-focused LIS Annual Asset Limit on the issues he cared about. And he cared about the right to remain at home Person(s) Annual Income Limit and not be warehoused in a skilled nursing Individuals/Couple $13,290/$26,520 facility.” l That should free up some space to add the Grant disclosures next to the SHIP logo .(see Thadeus Greenson (he/him) is the attached). The text can be found in the ad running in the 6-24 NCJ Journal’s news editor. Reach him at 442-1400, extension 321, or thad@ northcoastjournal.com. Follow him on Twitter @thadeusgreenson.

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