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Offers a self-directed peer group for adults age 60+. Offers additional support and services including special interest groups/programs (e.g. crafts), social outings, workshops/presentations, rent/utility assistance and volunteer opportunities. Group transportation to grocery store is available from select locations.

First Tuesday Tea is an informal forum that allows seniors to actively engage with visual art, music, movement, literary interests, as well as social and current issues, while sipping a hot cup of tea.

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 visitors to call on people who are hospitalized or in another institutional setting or who are socially isolated with the objective of brightening their day and helping them to maintain contact with the outside world by reading, talking, listening, writing letters, or performing other similar tasks.

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 one-on-one companionship or daytime respite care to older adults and/or individuals with disabilities to enable them to remain in their home and community. Purpose is encouragement to accomplish household tasks and socialization for participants. NOTE: no overnight services available.

Places older adults in the homes of housebound adults and elder individuals to provide companionship, support and tasks of daily living that are necessary to help their clients maintain independence. Services may include light housekeeping, assistance with grocery shopping, meal preparation, and support to family caregivers.

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.

Program designed to provide housebound seniors with socialization services through friendly phone calls or visits.

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.

Helps reduce social isolation for older adults by arranging for a "buddy" to telephone them on a regular basis to listen, talk, and help them maintain contact with the outside world. Accepting applications for callers and those who would like to receive calls.

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

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

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.

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

Provides services for seniors or permanently disabled adults to remain independent. Services include home visits, help with forms and paperwork, utilities and more.

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

Volunteer based program that regularly checks on the safety and well-being of clients. Determines if there is a follow-up referral to an appropriate agency to improve the client’s quality of life is needed. Assists in providing any immediate help needed, within program guidelines, during actual visitation. Also checks residences at the request of citizens that are away from their homes for extended periods of time.

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

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.

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.

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

Offers free in-home education on how to understand and manage your breathing problems, use your medications correctly and breathing exercises which can help you manage shortness of breath and continue to be active. Through our COPD Outreach program we help you “breathe easier” and stay healthier.

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

Pairs volunteers with children to provide socialization, life building skills and friendship. Visits take place either weekly or twice a month, depending on the family's interest.