Senior Support Services Programs
Programs
Our overall goal each year is to meet the full range of needs of more than 2,400 hungry and homeless seniors.
We successfully operate the only day center catering to the needs of the hungry and homeless seniors in the Denver area. Clients get meals, emergency food and clothing, individualized case management, medical care, housing, government benefits, socialization, and activities. We provide:
Our overall goal each year is to meet the full range of needs of more than 2,400 hungry and homeless seniors.
We successfully operate the only day center catering to the needs of the hungry and homeless seniors in the Denver area. Clients get meals, emergency food and clothing, individualized case management, medical care, housing, government benefits, socialization, and activities. We provide:
- Safe daytime shelter open 12 hours each weekday and 5 hours on Sundays
- Three meals served each weekday for up to 300 seniors
- Emergency food and clothing banks
- Access to medical care, health screenings, counseling, and health insurance
- Transportation or escort to government offices, work, medical care, etc
- Access to computers and Internet for word processing, email, etc.
- Individualized case management and advocacy including:
- Obtaining government benefits
- Obtaining and retaining affordable housing
- Paying rent and utilities on behalf of clients
- Mediating tenant-landlord disputes
- Preventing homelessness through financial management counseling
- Connecting clients to healthcare providers and health-related services
- Leading Care Coordination in complex client situations.
Yearly Accomplishments
- Provided services to 2,400 hungry and homeless seniors
- Served 71,500 individual meals
- Distributed 21,000 emergency food items
- Distributed 8,200 clothing items, 2000 new pr. of socks, 860 new pr. of boxer briefs
- Distributed 11,500 hygiene items
- Made direct payments for birth certificates, prescriptions, healthcare-related items, moves, background checks, etc, for 246 seniors
- Obtained or retained shelter or housing on 5,105 occasions
- Made direct housing payments on behalf of 152 seniors
- Made direct utility payments on behalf of 109 seniors
- Moved the belongings of 75 seniors
- Provided long-term, onsite storage for 138 homeless seniors, and short-term storage for 416 seniors
- Obtained or retained government benefits (or financial stability) on 3,965 occasions
- Obtained legal aid for 376 seniors
- Distributed, free of charge, 1,690 roundtrip bus tickets
- Sold 1488 half-priced monthly bus passes
- Transported or escorted clients by car to 271 medical appointments, government offices, shopping trips, home, etc
- Connected seniors with primary/specialty healthcare, dental, optical, mental health or substance use referrals, prescriptions, or emergency medical care on 1,928
occasions. - Weekly visits by outreach worker who had 406 encounters with clients regarding SNAP, Old Age Pension, AND, Medicaid issues, rent or deposit assistance, and other financial matters.
- Monthly visits by a nurse who provided inoculations, foot care, health screenings and checkups.
- Licensed Professional Counselor provided 379 onsite, individual mental health or substance use counseling sessions for 116 seniors.
- Clients benefited from 13,500 computer hours (word processing, email, Internet)
- Obtained jobs for 15 seniors
- 25 seniors planned, planted, maintained and harvested our onsite garden (Horticultural Program)
- TV Room
- Parties to celebrate holidays with a special meal and gifts distributed
- Quarterly field trips (picnics, baseball games, etc)
- 40 seniors served as members of our Senior Advisory Council
