Quarterly Report – Live Well Kingston https://livewellkingston.org WE ARE BUILDING A BETTER KINGSTON TO WALK, BIKE, EAT, AND PLAY! Tue, 23 Apr 2019 14:56:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 Spring 2019 Quarterly Reports https://livewellkingston.org/spring-2019-quarterly-reports/ Tue, 23 Apr 2019 14:56:13 +0000 https://livewellkingston.org/?p=9112 The Live Well Kingston Focus Teams (or subcommittees) present to the Live Well Kingston Commission, quarterly, on their progress. Exciting events and projects are moving along. Here is a quick summary.

  1. Heal Well
    • “Resilience” Film Screening: Heal Well is planning a screening of the film “Resilience, the biology of stress and the science of hope,” May 16th, 6pm, at GW Elementary School Auditorium, with a panel discussion after. It is a film about childhood trauma and they will have resources in the room.
    • MiSN Community Baby Shower: The HAHV midwives and a maternal health coalition is working with Emily to host a community baby shower with community resources for women and children at the Hodge Community Center, June 9th, 1-3pm.
    • Integrated Ulster: Ulster County is working on an initiative called Integrated Ulster that builds health coalitions and increases communications between agencies.
  2. Play Well
    • Disc Golf Course and Clean Up: Play well helped do a park cleanup of the new Disc Golf course that has a grand opening April 27th, 11am.
    • Chess Tables: Age Well and Play Well collaborated to apply for an AARP Community Challenge Grant for two chess tables, four benches, a shade structure and support for monthly chess meet-ups.
  3. Eat Well
    • Laurie Mozian is no longer at HAHV. Katie Shehan-Lopez will still chair the team.
    • Conversations have been about how to communicate community about resources more. During the government shut-down multiple Eat Well member organizations sent out parallel press releases about food insecurity resources.
    • The Kingston Food Co-op will present at next Eat Well meeting, June 5th, 10am.
  4. Age Well
    • Cyber Seniors Program: moving toward installing another set of computers at the Stuyvesant Rupco building. Age Well is still having great success partnering high school students with the seniors for computer help.
    • Age Friendly Kingston: Age Well is considering applying to be an AARP Age-Friendly City. The County has been hosting focus groups about community services. Transportation and a senior center are still major concerns for this focus team.
  5. Travel Well:

Have any questions about these projects? Want to get involved? Email Emily!

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Objective 1:

To have an engaged and active focus team that can implement the mission of Age Well

  • Current members of focus team include Marge Gagnon-chair, Elaine Habernig, Jane Riley, Claire O’Brien, and Emily Flynn. Francesca Ortolano attends as her schedule allows. Depending on location, residence of the housing site of the meeting location come.
  • Toby Krawitz because of personal issues has resigned from the heal well committee
  • Emily Flynn is instrumental in coordinating our projects to the City of Kingston, taking photos and videos to post them on the website

Future needs:

  • Additional recruitment for task implementation
  • Engage a note taker for Age Well meetings

 

Objective 2:

Seniors in the City of Kingston will have access to a comprehensive list of available resources

  • Facilities that have computers have access to
    • NY Connects
    • UCOFA Monthly newsletter
    • Live Well Kingston
    • Healthy Ulster.net
  • Facilities and agencies post senior events and activities at their locations
  • Increased contacts with SSIP with access to their monthly newsletter. This provides additional contacts with a different social and supportive group.  This group is growing and may expand to both a breakfast and a luncheon group that meets weekly

Future Activities:

  • Continue to add resource listings to the Live Well Kingston Website
  • Include information and recruitment strategies about the NYS Action Policy Council Ulster County Chapter

 

Objective 3:

Explore opportunities to enhance communication with all seniors including those who do not currently have access to technology

  • There are now 26 seniors that have graduated from the Cyberseniors Project—22 at Governor Clinton and 4 at Yosman Towers
  • 4 seniors have completed a refresher course
  • 3 new high school students have been recruited as mentors for Yosman Towers
  • Joshua created a comprehensive list of telephone companies that access the internet and are affordable for the low income population. This is now on the website
  • Our project is being used as a template in Saugerties and a new outreach/contact with Ellenville High School and healthy Way has been started

Future Activities:

  • Provide a technology Q+A café once a month at each housing site. This will start this fall
  • Explore the possibility of helping seniors create banking portals and health portals
  • Hold a technology event at Governor Clinton to introduce new technologies. This will involve Evolving Media, AT&T, the Age Well Committee with recruitment for participation to be City wide
  • Continue conversations with evolving media and schools to provide live streaming of Lunch and Learn events

 

Objective 4:

Improve Access to transportation

  • Community Action can provide transportation for people qualifying for Medicaid transportation
  • Difficulties with new meter system have been identified by the senior group with a request for easier to follow instructions and better signage
  • Explored opportunities for transportation to UC Community Action Food distribution program—survey was completed by Emily Flynn to identify food insecurity need vs. wish

 

Future Activities: 

  • Improve bus signage and schedules so they are easier to read and understand
  • Continue to explore opportunities for transportation to UC Community Action Food distribution program
  • Continued upgrading of information re UCAT and City of Kingston transportation
  • Create a short video and place on website so seniors have information on how to use WOOSH

 

Senior Center

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Age Well Mission

“Redesigning the Future of Aging”

To create a supportive environment that promotes active aging for seniors that includes the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, social, intellectual, financial, professional and vocational dimensions of life.

We will do this through performing a community assessment, policy adoption, program implementation, and information access with a focus on active aging through all levels of functional ability.

The Purpose of this team will be consistent with the purpose of The Live Well Kingston Commission, which is to:  

  • Serves as a resource for education and a catalyst for decisions that foster healthy attitudes
  • Acts as a catalyst of programming, policy, systems and environmental change
  • Creates synergies among organizations to provide healthy eating and physical activity programming for all people using Kingston’s assets
  • Creates alignment among the efforts of several organizations and groups
  • As a partnership, leverages resources and funding for the efforts of the coalition
  • Promotes efforts of the member organizations and partnerships within the coalition
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