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Over 50 Years of Community Services

"Providing Programs of Physical, Social, Health, and Spiritual Care..."

We have taken this quote from the NCPHS mission statement quite literally for more than half a century. In recent years the scope and purpose of our mission has grown steadily to meet an ever-expanding community need.

The heart of the NCPHS mission is to improve the quality of life for all older adults, regardless of their economic status or cultural background. Read more about NCPHS...

Many thousands of people—elders, persons with disabilities, and younger persons—have been touched by NCPHS’ programs. These numbers include those who live in three Bay Area Life Care senior communities and NCPHS’ four residential communities, as well as others in the larger community.

We fulfill and honor our not-for-profit status by investing significantly in the wider community through a number of community service initiatives without any expectation of financial return.

A portion of the support NCPHS applies to its community service programming goes directly to those in need—in the form of health education and blood pressure, to name a few. The effectiveness of money spent is also leveraged by funding efforts that encourage older adults to serve others. For example, a program called Coming of Age: Bay Area, offered in San Francisco and Alameda counties, matches the skills and interests of adults over 50 with the volunteer needs of service organizations.

• Service Coordinator for the Peninsula Volunteers’ Meals Program
NCPHS provides a Service Coordinator (social worker) for the Peninsula Volunteers’ Meals on Wheels program. This allows participants in the southern San Mateo County Meals on Wheels program to also access health and social services. This new offering is made possible by additional resources from NCPHS.

• Experience Corps®
Experience Corps® Marin taps the experience of adults 55 years and older in meeting one of the country’s greatest challenges: literacy. Experience Corps Marin Members mentor and tutor San Rafael elementary school students struggling to learn to read. Many students are English-language learners. Independent research shows that Experience Corps, located in 22 cities nationwide, boosts student academic progress, helps schools become more successful, and enhances the well being of the adult volunteers in the process. Launched in January 2007, the program served more than 700 students in the 2009/2010 school year. Experience Corps members made a difference:

• Students increased one grade level, on average, as a result of the Experience Corps tutoring
• 74% of students achieved significant academic progress
• 100% of principals were satisfied with the Experience Corps program
• 99% of members agree that their service was useful to the school and to the individual students served

• Coming of Age: Bay Area
Coming of Age: Bay Area, launched in 2010, seeks to capture and utilize the passion, talent and skills of adults over 50 with exciting programs that benefit the entire community. Through its workshops, volunteer recruitment, consultation and online community, Coming of Age helps people 50+ make rewarding transitions to the next phase of life by providing pathways to engage in meaningful service, explore passions, plan for the future, become community leaders and pursue lifelong learning. Coming of Age offers a multifaceted initiative designed to discover and tap the potential of aging. To help realize this transformation, Coming of Age:

• Helps people engage in meaningful paid and/or unpaid work and community service
• Builds the capacity of for-profit, not-for-profit and public sector organizations to harness the experience, talents and skills of people 50+
• Provides structured opportunities for people to explore their futures
• Creates an online community to connect programs, services and staff
• Increases public awareness about the value people 50+ provide to the community

WellElder®
WellElder® is a program available for older adults living in affordable housing communities in San Francisco and San Jose. The goal is to maintain the health and independence of residents in those communities. The WellElder program provides a link to existing health and social programs that are designed to address these health issues within the community.

An on-site “Health Educator” works directly with residents to provide:

• One-on-one health assessments
• Advocacy to help navigate the health care system
• Referrals
• Education about taking medicines properly for maximum effectiveness

Through the program, residents may access other services, including an adult day health center, an Alzheimer’s day center, elder abuse prevention, community education and help at home. The WellElder program is a collaborative effort between NCPHS and the Institute on Aging.

• Living at Home
Living at Home targets individuals whose health or mental status may potentially interfere with their current living situation. The goal is to provide services that enable people to maintain their lifestyle and remain in the residential setting to which they’ve grown accustomed. Social workers are placed in low-to-middle-income senior housing to assist with access to community-based health and social services.

Each of these programs is funded, wholly or in part, by Senior Services for Northern California. Each is designed to address a spectrum of the challenges associated with advancing age. The community residents and others associated with these programs make these services available at no cost to those who take advantage of them.

Since 1967, NCPHS has increased the number and types of community services available to people with lesser means or specific needs. The one thing that has never changed is our organization’s enduring commitment to identifying areas where help is needed and supplying the necessary resources to make a difference.