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2003 Annual Report Selfhelp Community Services, Inc Selfhelp Community Services, Inc. Caring for Generations 2003 Annual Report Selfhelp Community Services, Inc. Caring for Generations As it has for almost seven decades, Selfhelp provides assistance to people struggling to maintain their independence and their dignity. Through case management, senior services, and home care, we respond to the individual needs within our increasingly diverse elderly population. Through our senior centers, our residences, and our services in housing complexes with large numbers of aging residents, we build intimate and supportive communities. We make sure that no one, having come this far, has to face the future alone. 2 Caring for Generations 10 The Campaign for Selfhelp 12 Providing Support 16 Working With Others 18 Programs and Services 20 Financial Information 21 Officers, Directors and Staff 2003 Annual Report PAGE 2 Ninety-one-year-old Alexander 91 Vinokur makes borscht that reminds him of autumn in the Ukraine, before the Nazis came. Eighty-year-old Doris Chipkin PAGE 5 makes friends with all the people she helps at Selfhelp’s Rosenthal Senior Center. PAGE 6 Seventy-five-year-old80 Tak Min Poon makes Chinese calligraphic banners like the ones his father 75 and grandfather made before him. And sixty-nine-year-old PAGE 9 Altagracia Tejeda is making a man of her grandson. Selfhelp makes it possible69 for these New Yorkers and thousands of others to live vibrant, meaningful lives. Ninety-year old men and women may have different needs from those in their sixties, but when the difficulties of managing on a low income are added to the constraints of old age, the challenge of living in New York becomes daunting for all. Finding companionship and support Alexander Vinokur was born in by on-site Selfhelp staff, who arrange for the support Vinniza, in the Ukraine, ninety- he needs to maintain his independence. Julia, his one years ago. During the Selfhelp caseworker, was assigned to him because 91 Second World War, the Nazis she speaks Russian, and she in turn secured the serv- killed all the Jews in his town. ices of Raisa, a Russian-speaking home attendant, for Mr. Vinokur and his family survived because he was two to three hours each day during the week. These serving in the Russian army at the time, and his wife two dedicated women have given Mr. Vinokur, who and young daughter were is widowed, companionship able to hide and then flee to and a sense of community. Siberia. After the war, his Raisa helps him select daughter immigrated to ingredients for the tradi- America and was eventual- tional Ukrainian soups he ly able to bring her elderly likes to cook; and Julia has parents over. encouraged him to partici- pate in social activities and Mr. Vinokur is just one of the exhibit his paintings in the hundreds of thousands of senior center art show. Jews who managed to escape to the United States Other Selfhelp clients need before and after the war. greater levels of counseling, Selfhelp was created to emergency assistance, and assist these devastated help with claims for com- men and women and to pensation and restitution. help them build new lives. In FY 2003, Selfhelp pro- Our mission has expanded, Over 60 percent of the Nazi victims and vided more than 33,000 Holocaust survivors we serve are 80 years and but Nazi victim services hours of social services to older. As the challenges of advancing age remain at the core of our pro- are added to the burdens of their past, many need Holocaust survivors and grams, annually providing our help to maintain their dignity and independence. Nazi victims. In recogni- comprehensive case man- Selfhelp’s Nazi Victim Services Program provides tion of our expertise, the agement, home care serv- compassionate care through enhanced case Conference on Jewish management services, and most importantly, the ices, and other assistance, comfort of knowing Selfhelp will be there Material Claims Against from housing to enrichment for as long as we are needed. Germany this year selected programs, to more than Selfhelp to administer its 4,000 Holocaust survivors new Austrian Holocaust and Nazi victims. Projections based on the age and Survivor Emergency Assistance Program here in the demographics of the more than 60,000 Nazi victims United States and in Canada. currently residing in the New York metropolitan area now indicate that the number of survivors request- Perhaps the most pervasive need is for social support ing assistance will to continue to rise through 2007 in the face of the isolation of old age. Victims of the and that as this vulnerable group reaches extreme old Holocaust depend more than ever on Selfhelp to act age, there will be a sustained need for our services as their “last surviving relative,” as our founders prom- at least through 2020. ised. We have developed a variety of programs to ful- fill that pledge, including Jewish heritage programs, Mr. Vinokur, for example, speaks little English and concerts, outings, writing workshops that help sur- needs help with chores, shopping, and appointments. vivors deal with painful recollections, and old world As a resident in one of Selfhelp’s buildings, he is served “Coffee Houses” that bring back happier memories. 2. 3. 4. Sharing a lifetime of experience Eight years ago, Doris Chipkin continuing education course offered at our Benjamin visited Selfhelp’s Benjamin Rosenthal Center. Rosenthal Senior Center to see if she could join a sing- This diverse programming is just one aspect of 80 along group there. Within a Selfhelp’s comprehensive response to a senior pop- week she was a member, and within a year she was ulation that now spans four decades and requires a leader—elected to serve on the Social Action varying levels of service. In their sixties, seniors may Committee, volunteering need assistance completing daily in the office and the din- benefit applications or finding ing room, performing with the volunteer projects. (A recent center’s vaudeville troupe, Selfhelp initiative aimed at and generally lending a hand this younger group has been wherever she was needed. the creation of a prototype Never one to let her mind or wellness center, which seeks her hands stay idle, she uses to preserve the physical and both to knit and make pottery mental well-being of mature in her spare time. adults through yoga, mas- sage, and nutrition classes With her unfailing vitality, during extended evening Mrs. Chipkin had raised five hours.) As they enter their children, started three small seventies, they may need businesses, and worked for help with household chores the Board of Education for or personal care. Later, as ten years. When she retired they reach their eighties and at seventy-two, she was a Selfhelp’s six senior centers offer nineties, they may require innovative programs and services that strive to grandmother to ten and a more comprehensive servic- address the changing needs and interests of great-grandmother to four, nearly 8,000 men and women. Many find a es, including home care or but was still not ready to second home at our centers as they join friends financial management assis- retire from life. for activities and nutritious meals and discover tance. new outlets for their talents and energy. Their participation adds enjoyment and “In Selfhelp, I found a second activity to their lives and helps them remain Building on six decades of family to give my expertise actively engaged in community life. experience, Selfhelp also pro- to,” she says. “I feel that I am vides services to over 2,000 doing something that I love residents of six Naturally and not wasting my life sitting and watching televi- Occurring Retirement Communities in Manhattan and sion all day. My health has improved, and I will live Queens. These men and women rely on Selfhelp’s net- the rest of my life happy that I made this move.” work of case management, enrichment activities, and personal assistance to preserve their independence Selfhelp’s six senior centers bring together older New and remain in their community of choice. Yorkers with a broad array of interests, talents, and physical capacities. Some join in discussions of cur- Limited incomes mean that Selfhelp’s clients need our rent events; some take classes in English as a sec- nutritional lunches and affordable housing; growing ond language, computers, ballroom dance, or art. They old in New York makes the need for human connec- can have a hot lunch, join clubs, exercise, attend lec- tion just as urgent. For Mrs. Chipkin and thousands tures, go on outings, or organize special events. As of others, Selfhelp provides a constant community in of this year, they can even enroll in a Queens College a transient world. 5. Enjoying an independent life Every morning in good weather, bilingual staff who can help connect them to the seventy-five-year-old Tak Min community and encourage them to share their spe- Poon walks out of his apart- cial talents and rich heritage. ment building on Selfhelp’s res- 75 idential campus for seniors in Of course, not everyone enjoys good health or has Flushing and joins a Tai Chi session in the garden. After as much energy as Mr. Poon. Selfhelp offers a range lunch, he might work on his painting and calligraphy, of services to a clientele that is becoming increasingly or participate in a Chinese diverse in age and ability. karaoke or ballroom dancing For those who need them, group—two of his favorite meals are delivered to pastimes. homes. Our Community Guardian Program serves The six apartment buildings as court-appointed legal that Selfhelp owns and oper- guardian for clients who ates in Queens allow seniors are unable to cope with with limited incomes to live financial or domestic mat- in the kind of lively, multicul- ters.
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