New York Foundation For Senior Citizens Inc

Long term case management program - between july 1, 2023 and june 30, 2024, case management services were provided to 2,690 frail elderly residents of community districts #1, #2, #3, #5 and #6, including 1,276 caucasians, 283 african americans, 620 hispanics, 442 asians and 69 clients with other/unknown ethnicities. During that same period, short term counseling, intake screening, information and referral services were provided to 4,878 elderly persons and their families, including 1,443 caucasians, 318 african americans, 681 hispanics, 514 asians and 1,922 clients with unknown ethnicities.

The foundation sponsors three senior centers that provide meals, health and wellness, recreation and socialization activities, as well as, case management services for their members.under the foundation's sponsorship and administration, dyckman, laguardia and mott street older adult centers have continued to operate successfully. As of june 30, 2024, their respective active memberships totaled: laguardia-1,093; mott street- 918; dyckman - 741. With the covid-19 pandemic waning, staff operated the three older adult centers at 25% capacity until march 21, 2022, at which time nyc aging approved returning to 100% capacity while also maintaining social distancing. As of june 30, 2024, the oacs were operating at the following pre-covid 19 capacities: laguardia 92%, dyckman 75%, mott 91 %. Additionally, dyckman, laguardia and mott street older adult centers' staff successfully provided numerous in-person and virtual activities via teleconference/zoom including, but not limited to exercise, i.e. Chair yoga, tai chi, dance, walk & find, emergency management workshops, health and wellness presentations, esl, healthy eating & cooking classes, current events discussions, holiday events, arts & crafts, beading, crocheting, knitting, bingo, leisure games, chorus, dance classes such as salsa, music appreciation, karaoke, technology classes - tablets & cell phones, shopping trips, and movies.

Other program activities for the foundation include: during this july 1, 2023 -june 30, 2024 fiscal year, the foundation's home attendant program simultaneously and successfully administered its 13 multi-faceted and complicated contracts, including 10 contracts with managed long term care organizations ("ml tcs") as well as one contract with nyc aging and two contracts with new york city human resources administration ("hra"). As of june 30, 2024, the home attendant program's total combined caseload was 1,111, including: 288 mltc, 160 hra difficult to serve and cdpap clients and 663 nyc aging clients. Some of the remaining 160 hra clients will continue to be slowly transitioned into ml tc on a monthly basis. Between august 1, 2011 and june 30, 2024, the agency has continuously worked in coordination and cooperation with hra to smoothly and seamlessly transition 777 hra home care clients into a combined total of 25 mcos/mltcs in accordance with new york state's mandated medicaid home care transition.as of june 30, 2024, the foundation's city-wide community guardian program was serving as guardian for 744 extremely difficult to serve clients city-wide. The program's staff managed $12,384,252.20 in cumulative client assets as of june 30, 2024, including real property. Also as of june 30, 2024, the foundation's institutionalized guardian program was serving 5 of the maximum of 10 clients the program is contracted to serve.home sharing and respite care program - despite contending with very little funding for outreach/advertising during fiscal year 2023-2024, the program exceeded its goal of implementing 25 home sharing matches of 50 hosts and guests by implementing 32 matches of 64 hosts and guests. The staff also provided 123 frail elderly and over 250 of their caregivers with respite care services during fiscal year 2023-2024. The home sharing program also has continued to conduct extensive free outreach, including via facebook, instagram, twitter, google search and the foundation's web site, posters, brochures, fact sheets, newspaper articles and broadcast interviews, including a may 22, 2024 appearance on pix 11 's "monica makes it happen".project cart-since march 21, 2022, cart's staff has conducted extensive outreach to encourage prior and recruit new riders to utilize the service and, thereby, return the program to its pre-covid-19 capacity via telephone, agency presentations at community meetings, distributing program fact sheets, brochures, etc. As such, between 6 july 1, 2023 and june 30, 2024 project cart provided a total of 7,470 individual and 3,224 group trips for frail elderly residents of manhattan community boards #1 - #8.the home repair program worked diligently toward achieving its july 1, 2023 june 30, 2024 pre-covid 19 contract goals of providing 6,000 client service hours of emergency and non-emergency home repairs for 1,500 low/moderate income homeowners. As of june 30, 2024, 1,862 low/moderate income homeowners were provided with 17,228 emergency and non-emergency repairs and 5,377 service hours (89 .62% and highly rated goal by nyc aging). Also, between july 1, 2023 and june 30, 2024, the home safety audit program provided 74 low/moderate income elderly homeowners, city-wide, with free home safety audit services.the foundation's senior theater enrichment program, which commenced collaborating with the theatre development fund (tdf) in october 2017 and was placed on pause at the february 2020 onset of the covid-19 pandemic, resumed providing adults ages 62 and over the opportunity to obtain low cost tickets for off broadway performances. Since then, the foundation's project cart transportation program resumed its free transportation services to and from the theater for seniors receiving low cost tickets and free tickets through tdf. Tdf also resumed its pre-covid-19 practice of providing 20 free broadway performance tickets per month for the foundation's seniors.generationsconnect - older adults' need for virtual programming has become somewhat diminished since the summer of 2022, when covid 19 was no longer considered a public health hazard and in person socialization commenced. Therefore, as of the june 30, 2024 end of this fiscal year four teenage volunteers have been connecting with, via telephone/facetime and helping four older adults prevent feelings of loneliness and depression, including: one resident of brown gardens, one laguardia older adult center member, one dyckman older adult center member and one home sharing participant however historically and in response to the covid 19 pandemic, commencing on july 1, 2020 the foundation's generationsconnect carefully screened, trained and connected 25 teenage volunteers with 25 seniors via telephone and facetime, including 12 residents of four foundation sponsored buildings and 5 members of its three senior citizen centers, 1 from mott street, 2 from laguardia and 2 from dyckman senior centers, and 8 home sharing participants. In addition, the original 25 teenage volunteers who were active during the pandemic are now in college and no longer able to participate in the program.foundation generationsconnect and theater development fund ("tdf") - between july 29, 2020 and june 30, 2024, the foundation's generationsconnect, in coordination with theater development fund, has presented a total of 131 entertainment videos, via zoom, for the foundation buildings' residents, senior centers' members along with teen volunteers. Thereafter, the teens have facilitated the seniors in discussions regarding their performance. For example, during the december 2023 holiday season the foundation's generationsconnect, in coordination with theater development fund, presented film viewings via zoom, in english, spanish and mandarin, which featured the nutcracker ballet and, thereafter, discussions led by generationsconnect teen volunteers.foundation and healthfirst - since december 2020, the foundation and healthfirst, new york's largest not-for-profit health insurer, have collaborated and produced virtual celebrations/parties for older adults, via zoom, while they have been socially isolating in their homes. This fiscal year, the foundation held a very successful and heartwarming holiday/national caregiver's gratitude month celebration in english, spanish, and chinese via zoom on december 14, 2023, in coordination with healthfirst and board members pearl chang, cynthia gelalich and rachel wang. Longtime foundation friend and wpix channel 11 investigative reporter, monica morales, served as mistress of ceremonies for the event, which was attended by 423 english, spanish and chinese speaking foundation buildings' residents, senior centers' members, and home attendant program's clients.