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Causes: Human Services, Senior Centers, Seniors
Mission: Our quality services include: full-service neighborhood senior centers, home-delivered meals, transportation services, assistance with benefits and entitlements, case management and elder abuse services, in addition to community-based mobile meals for homeless and hungry persons.
Programs: Senior service centers - located in various bronx community districts and upper manhattan, the 12 centers offer a wide range of services designed to promote the socialization and overall well-being of seniors. On a daily basis, more than 1,600 individuals participate in social services, wellness programs, recreational and educational programs, nutrition education, congregate meals, transportation, health promotion services and volunteer opportunities.
home delivered meals - homebound elderly bronx residents are provided with pre-plated, nutritious, kosher and non-kosher meals. The goal is to maintain good nutritional health of homebound seniors and to ensure their continued quality of life.
case management - a comprehensive social services program for the elderly. Case managers arrange for transportation, homecare, housekeeping, home delivered meals, counseling and emergency homecare. Case managers also assist seniors with entitlements and benefits.
food services - provides pre-plated meals for the home delivered meals program and mobile food program and provides congregate meals for two out of our eleven senior centers. Mobile food kitchen - the rain cucina dolores mobile food kitchen addresses the urgent needs for healthy and nutritious meals among bronx homeless and hungry families. Cucina dolores mobile food kitchen is a lifeline initiative that brings nutritious, hot meals on a daily basis to hundreds of persons in low-income bronx communities on daily basis. One stop geriatric services - provides geriatric services through the rain geriatric workforce enhancement program (gwep).