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Causes: Human Services, Senior Centers, Seniors
Mission: The centers mission is to provide an environment for our senior community where they know they are genuinely cared about, respected, appreciated, and welcomed through offering a variety of programming, activities, a shared meal, and a warm smile.
Programs: Nutrition:the nutrition program consists of two programs that serve hot lunch to the elderly in poway and the greater poway valley. Lunch is a restaurant-style dining center, monday through friday, supported by a 14 passenger bus that picks up and returns diners. Home delivered meals are covered by 20-30 volunteer drivers who deliver lunch in their own vehicles monday through friday. *in-house hot lunch served daily monday through friday, which is prepared in the facility kitchen. *home delivered meals - hot lunch delivered daily by volunteers to home-bound elderly and frozen meals available for weekend holidays.
activities:activities include physical, mental, intellectual, creative classes/meeting lectures including the following:*cards/games - poker, bridge, party bridge, other card games, mah jong board games and jigsaw puzzles. *creative arts/hand crafts - needle crafts, sewing, crocheting, knitting, ceramics, quilting and watercolor painting. *physical - feeling fit exercise, tai chi, yoga, line dancing and walking. *group meetings - senior volunteer patrol (svp) of the sheriffs department, pace tv, sd knit and crochet guild, weight loss and what's your opinion. *social services - host bread distribution and offer low to no cost lunches. *social events - bingo, fundraising, blood drives, volunteerism, monthly and seasonal lectures on financial, legal, medical, health, defensive driving, current events discussions and genealogy.
senior services:senior services include:health screening and services as follows:medical - screening, blood pressure checkup and hearing checks. Therapeutic - grief counseling and stepping out (for widows, widowers). Legal, tax and financial services as follows:government - hicap assistance. Legal - aarp tax assistance, homeowner tax form assistance and legal assistance.