Program areas at JCCGCI
Senior Citizen Home Care Services: JCCGCI'S highly-praised home relief program for at-risk, low-income seniors provides home-care services to enable the frail elderly who are ineligible for Medicaid home-care or do not have adequate at-home Medicaid services to remain in their homes and communities. Home bound seniors who suffer from functional impairment receive help with daily living activities and/or personal care. In FY 2023, JCCGCI provided 1,051 seniors with 1,347,114 hours of home-care for assistance with personal care, light housekeeping, shopping, food preparation, laundry, and other similar services these hours included 1,339,818 hours of service to 960 holocaust survivors.
Senior Citizen Transportation Services/Community Shuttle Bus: Since 1981, the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island has been making daily life for older adults a lot easier with our professionally operated senior citizen transportation program. The program provides transportation to enable low-income, functionally impaired elders to keep medical and entitlement appointments, go shopping, and attend senior centers for nutritious meals and healthy aging programming. Over the years, our highly acclaimed senior citizen transportation program has become one of the largest such programs in New York City. In 2023, JCCGCI provided 97,016 units of transportation service to medical appointments, shopping, banking, and other similar services to 4,140 clients (including 22,327 Trips to 1,355 Holocaust survivors). In addition, our Southern Brooklyn Community Shuttle Bus provided 4,263 units of transportation services to 144 south Brooklyn residents facilitating their access to essential employment, education, shopping, medical and nonmedical appointments and services.
Older Adult Centers (formerly Senior Centers): The senior support systems division of JCCGCI operates eight (8) Brooklyn Older Adult Centers with year-round services, Monday through Friday. The Older Adult Centers are Coney Island Seaside Older Adult Center, Jay-Harama Older Adult Center, Haber House Older Adult Center, Marlboro Older Adult Center, Marien-Heim Older Adult Center, Kings Highway Older Adult Center and Ocean Parkway Older Adult Center. They provide nutritional congregate meals, a wide range of healthy aging services, educational and recreational programming, case management and entitlement counseling and advocacy. Seniors are assisted with application/form-completion and medical/social service referral assistance. Activities include English language instruction, exercise classes, art/music classes, mental health counseling, health promotion workshops, computer classes, nutrition workshops, and other educational/recreational sessions. In 2023, our eight older adult centers provided 175,180 congregate meals to 4,834 seniors.