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Provides comprehensive, non-medical companionship and home care services for the elderly.

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.

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.

Provides a program to protect senior citizens. Also provides a telephone check-in program designed to protect citizens that live alone.

Provides a peer support program to match adults coping with severe mental illness with a community volunteer for friendship and social skill building. Provided through a partnership with Compeer International. Opportunties in the program may include: - One-to-One Friendship Program: Offers face-to-face contact with adult volunteer. - Compeer Calling: Provides telephone support (may be offered in addition to face-to-face support). - Compeer Community: Offers group events and celebrations among Compeers to strengthen social skills. - Peer-to-Peer: Matches clients with one another in supportive, one-on-one friendships. - Skillbuilders Program: Promotes social ties through structured life skills training.

Provides outreach in the home, friendly visiting, and telephone reassurance for seniors.

Friendly Telephoning services help people who are socially isolated due to disability or old age or otherwise lack companionship relieve their loneliness by arranging for people (usually volunteers) to telephone them on a regular basis to listen, talk and help them maintain contact with the outside world.

Provides needs assessment, information, socialization opportunities, and referrals to community resources for senior citizens.

Provides seniors who are lonely and/or isolated with a regular visitor and/or telephone call.

Provides home visitation, senior socialization, advocacy for social services, and senior ride program.

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

Provides older adults with a non-medical companion for socialization, phone reassurance, medication reminders, assistance with daily activities, and may include transportation depending on volunteer. Services are provided by individuals serving as an AmeriCorps Senior Program volunteer.

Matches seniors with a volunteer for a friendly chat twice a week. Time of call is determined by volunteer and client.

The Safeguard our Seniors or S.O.S program is part of the "Good Neighbor" concept of community policing and designed to ensure the safety and basic needs for those who are elderly, shut-in, disabled , or with special needs. Once part of the program a deputy will stop by at clients residence for a visit and check in on them. Visits are intended to help the senior stay connected, feel less lonely, ward off depression, social isolation and stress. A safety evaluation of the clients home will be completed by a sheriff's deputy.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 services to help meet the needs of seniors in the community. Attends community events and contacts seniors in Franklin County to inform them of available services at FCOA.

Provides a volunteer support group for prostate cancer patients.