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Outreach services provide older adults with the assistance needed to access the human services system and provide linkage between client and needed services. This service includes management of a home delivered meal program, telassurance, public benefits assistance, housing placement assistance, friendly visiting, and assessments

Staff and volunteers make telephone contact with clients on a daily, weekly, or biweekly basis just to talk about the news and lift their spirits. The calls are intended to check the well-being of older adults and provide connection over the phone.

Provides services to help meet the needs of seniors in the community. Attends community events and contacts seniors in Franklin County to inform them of available services at FCOA.

This program addresses two specific issues within the senior population in Franklin County: 1) Loneliness and isolation and 2) underuse of resources active seniors have to give. The program engages two different populations of seniors: home-bound seniors and active, low-income seniors. Senior Companions, all of whom qualify as low-income, receive stipends and travel reimbursement to visit home-bound seniors for 15+ hours a week. They provide needed socialization and non-medical assistance so clients can remain independent in their homes. The program helps both groups stay connected and retain their independence.

Provides monthly telephone contact for people with cancer to listen and talk.

Provides inhome companionship to seniors 55+ older who simply need a friend and to combat senior isolation

Chat Pals' mission is to promote friendship through developing caring connections with others. Provides a telephone-based or video-based (Facetime or Zoom) program designed to be a support system, providing emotional support and companionship to people in the community. The purpose of the program is to bring people together based on like-minded interests and experiences so that a friendship can be formed remotely. By developing friendships, it will combat the negative effects of social isolation and loneliness.

Provides a variety of supportive social services/ health screenings for Senior adults.

Provides a program to protect senior citizens. Also provides a telephone check-in program designed to protect citizens that live alone.

Provides outreach services which include transportation to medical appointments; home visiting; assistance with tax and insurance forms and applications. Also a site for the Golden Buckeye program.

Provides outreach in the home, friendly visiting, and telephone reassurance for seniors.

Matches a volunteer with an individual who receives services through the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging for weekly or biweekly friendly chats.

The purpose of Service Coordination and Wraparound Services through the county FCFC is to provide a neutral venue for families requiring services where their needs may not have been adequately addressed in traditional agency systems. These processes serve as a safety net for children needing a more intensive collaboration of multi-system providers. Each system has areas of responsibility, and the Service Coordination Mechanism is not intended to override current agency systems, but to supplement and enhance supports that currently exist, or identify additional supports that are needed but are not currently utilized. The goal is to keep children in their home and community with supports.

Offers home visits to older adults and individuals who are home bound to provide companionship.

Provides visitation to patients in need of support by someone who has previously undergone the same type of ostomy surgery.

Offers a program that assists low-income individuals with home visits and assistance with grocery and pharmacy deliveries. Offers other supportive services.

Individuals dress as super heroes and princesses and visits children battling adversity and youth with a chronic illness in area hospitals.

Help Me Grow Home Visiting is Ohio's program for expectant parents, newborns, infants and toddlers. The program provides health and developmental services so that children start school healthy and ready to learn. Help Me Grow works with parents to support young children's development. Home Visitors provide on-going home visits in the home; focus on improving prenatal health habits and infant care giving skills; provide information on child's health, growth, education and development through the Parents As Teachers program; provide screenings for health, hearing, vision and development; connect families with community resources and services. Affiliated with the evidence-based home visiting model Parents As Teachers. Services include - Developmental Screening - Information on parenting tips - Assistance in developing and reaching family goals - Home Visits to help each child stay "on the road" to healthy growth and development - Service Coordination - professional nurses, teachers, or other qualified staff who share their knowledge about available resources, assist families in connecting with needed services, coordinate services to help families meet their needs and goals. Help Me Grow is - Family-friendly and family centered - Supportive and respectful of each family's needs and preferences - Individualized to meet the needs of each child and family.

Matches seniors with a volunteer for a friendly chat twice a week. Time of call is determined by volunteer and client.

Offers a variety of senior companion programs and services for isolated elderly who have little or no local family support, including one-to-one visiting, social outings, events and holiday parties.

Friendly Visiting program matches screened, trained volunteers with lonely and isolated seniors. Seniors benefit emotionally and physically from the warm, caring connection, closer ties to the community, and more access to services to help them stay safe and independent.

Provides home visitation, senior socialization, advocacy for social services, and senior ride program.

Provides home visits to those who are homebound or in nursing homes or hospitals.

Provides a volunteer support group for prostate cancer patients.