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HomeMy WebLinkAboutProgram NarrativePROGRAM NARRATIVE Action Community Center, Inc., a Non -Profit Community Based Organization, established for the purpose of serving the Elderly and/or Handicapped, since its inception in 1971. Action has been providing for over thirty fourth years, door to door, free of charge fundamental transportation frequently driving them to medical and hospital appointments and ongoing treatments, food procurements outlets, specialty stores, social security offices and a long list of governmental agencies and offices, for their overall well-being and necessities. Transportation services for the older population make good sense for several reasons, May of the riders are not physically able or drive an automobile, including operation expenses and insurance. Transportation is a necessary part of any effort to deepen the involvement of older people in community life. Our agency has established procedures for transportation services and may be used for assessing clients status, conditions and needs for establishing priorities for transportation services, some older persons with high probabilities of services are: 1. Advance age 2. Low and/or moderate income 3. Living along or with non -relatives 4. Functional impairment or disability 5. Insulation and lack of access to social and recreational activities, etc.... To be eligible for transportation services you must be: 1. Sixty (60) years of age or older 2. Handicapped any age 3. Low and/or moderate income 4. Resident to the City of Miami PROGRAM OBJECTIVES: Access to most health and social services is dependent on the availability of transportation services, there is a need to provides transportation services that links the elderly and handicapped and low income residents with medical and other basic and urgent family needs. Action Community Center, Inc., has been serving the City of Miami residents for the past thirty years, providing door to door, free of charge transportation services to doctor's and hospital's appointments, food procurement, physical and medical therapy, hot meals programs, rehabilitation and dialysis centers, nursing and boarding homes, radiation and cancer therapy, government Offices, activities centers, restaurants and a long list of agencies for their well being a necessities. -2 - DESCRIPTION OF THE PROGRAM: Transportation is the key to the independent of older persons, and their access to health, social leisure and other essential services to reach the unmet need and to assist frail older and handicapped persons in our community for_ their well being a necessities. Our agency headquarter are located in the Little Havana are where a high level of social and economic activity is synonymous with the health of the neighborhood Fife conditions have change in the Little Havana and the disposable income of the residents has decreased in the last eighteen years due in part to the out migration of the higher residents and immigration of lower income thus affecting the neighborhood, the target is economic divestment is also the result if image deterioration, relative un attractiveness, crime and social problems. All this can be attributed to the arrival of the immigrants (many undocumented), and an increase in the number of poor including a large older community., Action Community Center, Inc., has development a close working relationship with agencies in our community to ensure that its elderly and handicap participants utilize the resources. Elderly and handicapped who are referred for services or who request transportation service will be screened by our staff (by phone) during an intake process, and we have the flexibility to establish reasonable and consistent procedure for prioritizing the clients needs. Action Community Center, Inc_, provides transportation services to different hot meal programs in the community,.such as Allapattah Community Action, De Hostos Senior Center, UTD Towers, Carroll Manor, etc. PROGRAM TIME LINE. During Fiscal Year 2008-2009 we will provides transportation services to 500 clients And 65,000 one-way trips, from Monday to Friday and occasional trips on Saturday And Sunday. TARGET AREA: CITY-WIDE ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE: Action Community Center, Inc. has been serving the City of Miami Residents for the past thirty fourth years, has been providing door to door, free of charge transportation services to the elderly and handicapped residents for their a being necessities. B TARGET POPULATION: Our Target Population are Elderly and Handicapped (any age) with low and/or moderate income, most of them immigrants. DEMOGRAPHIC OR OTHER FACTOR: Action Community Center, Inc., provides for the past thrity four years transpor- tation services to the elderly and handicapped persons without regard of sex, race, national origen or creed with medical, food procurment and other basic and urgent needs. RECRUITMENT STREATEGIES: We are inform to our participants with flyers, govermental programs, froi from doctors offices, the signs in our buses, friends, etc. PARTICIPANT'S ELIGIBILITY: We are select the eligible for transportatio9n services a person must be sixty year of age or older, handicapped (any age) resident in the City of Miami with low and/or moderate income. OUR GOALS: Our purpose is to help our elders and handicapped to age with dignity, and to help them to maintain their independence. PROGRAM STAFF DO WITH PARTICIPANTS: Dispatcher supervises the staff and organizes the transportation services includings intakes and phone calls from participans. Our Drivers transport them from their homes to specific location, to fill their necessities.