“The mission of this website is to encourage city, state and national lawmakers to establish a week between Mother’s Day and Father’s Day,
Sunday–Saturday,
as Senior Appreciation Week. Theme:
Celebrating Seniors!”
OUR MISSION is to encourage middle and high school students to participate in “living-history” panel discussions with Seniors who speak about their experiences during past events in history.
OUR MISSION is to help bridge the gap between generations: Encourage all Senior Centers (during National Senior-Appreciation-Week™) to organize an Open House Week program inviting their community neighbors, including young people, to visit and participate in their programs.
Senior Appreciation To
Linda R. Hoffman, L.M.S.W.,A.C.S.W.
President, New York Foundation for Senior Citizens
11 Park Place, 14th floor
New York, NY 1007-2891
(212) 962-7559 / www.nyfsc.org
Established in 1968, the Foundation is the only non-profit, non-sectarian organization serving New York’s seniors in all five boroughs. It provides over 800 units of housing and 35 professionlly administered social service programs to tens of thousands of elderly New Yorkers city-wide annually. Intergenerational activities include: student volunteers spending many hours organizing and coordinating group activities including gardening, creative writing, sewing, card playing, bingo and excercise classes. The Foundation’s social services and building programs have been recognized by the media on television and radio as well as articles in the New York Times, Architecture Record, Multi-Housing News and in the book Civil Architecture, The New Public Infrastructure (McGraw Hill, 1995).
Senior Appreciation To
David M. Warren, President
Aileen Gitelson, CEO
JASA—Jewish Association for Services for the Aged
132 West 31st Street
New York, NY 10001
(212) 273-5272 / www.jasa.org
Nicole Millman-Falk
Communications Consultant
Millman-Falk Communications, LLC
(201) 652-1687 / mfc32@optonline.net
JASA’s mission is to sustain and enrich the lives of the aging in the New York metropolitan area so that they can remain in the community with dignity and autonomy. JASA, which works with individual at all stages of the aging process, is one of the largest social service agencies in the country dealing with older Americans. Last year, JASA provided a variety of services to seniors including: 1.3 million meals, both home-delivered and at 21 Senior Centers; legal and financial assistance; homecare for 1,200 homebound elderly; weekend college-based courses and lectures; help for more than 700 victims of elder abuse. JASA also owns and manages safe, affordable apartments for 2,600 New Yorkers 62 and older who qualify as low-to-moderate-income individuals.
Senior Appreciation To
Lgal Jellinek
Executive Director
Council of Senior Centers and Services of New York, Inc.
49 West 45th Street, 7th floor
New York, NY 10036
(212) 398-6565 / www.cscs-ny.org
The Council established in 1979 as a not-for-profit organization with Elinor Guggenheimer as its founding president is the premier professional organization that serves as a social policy advocate and training and technical assistance resource for more than 200 community-based senior service organizations serving over 300,000 elderly New Yorkers through a network of 363 senior centers. The mission of CSCS is to promote the qualty of life, independent living and dignity of older adults and their families. Member organizations range from individual community-based senior centers to large, multi-service, citywide organizations. Their programs provide senior citizens with all aspects of caregiving.