The Gathering Place / Brattleboro Area Adult Day Services

The Gathering Place (tgp) in a 501(c)(3) Adult Day program that has been providing Services to seniors and adults with disabilities in windham county Vermont and The surrouding areas since 1989. Tgp lives by its mission: "The Gathering Place provides Adult Day and other Services to promote empowerment, independence and quality of life for elders, adults with disabilities and their caregivers. We are dedicated to fostering collaborative community partnerships." According to our missiong tgp also looks to identify unmet needs in our community, working collegially with our partners to find workable, cost effective solutions to meet those needs. To that end The program continues to develop stronger working relationships and collaborations with The local hospitals and other community service providers. Tgp employs a full complement of staff comprised of full time, part time and occasional staff from our local community. The staff includes skilled nurse(s) who offer health over-sight and medication management, as well as access to caregiver education, program assistants who assist with activities and direct care, experienced theraputic activity staff and others experienced working with our target population in community-based, long-term care and acute settings. Tgp is well know in The community for our Services to individuals and their families in need of supportive assistance and clinical oversight. During operational hours participants enrolled in The program have access to transportation, and are offered a breakfast, hot lunch and a snack on The days of attendance and a variety of activities tailord to meet their individual needs. Our skilled staff successfully manages a broad variety of participants, many of whom live with advanced demetia, are wander risks and/or rquire direct assistance with personal care or constant cueing. Our program continues to recover following operational restrictions on Adult Day Services related to The covid-19 pandemic in 2020-2021. In fy23 tgp was able to provide 19,000 hours of service to participants and their families in The surrounding communities; including nearly 15,000 hours of planned activities, 7,500 hours of exercise and nearly 9,000 breakfast, lunch and snacks while continuing to rebuild our program to pre-pandemic levels.