Companions can provide services such as meal preparation, at- home companionship care, light housekeeping, laundry, errand services, grocery shopping, escort to appointments and activities, recreation/socialization, and supervision.

Personal Well-being

The pressures and challenges of running a farm can affect every aspect of your life. NY FarmNet’s personal consultants can help you manage issues that can disrupt business, family, or personal well-being. Our consultants can assist you with strategies to manage:

•Stress related emotional issues

•Relationship issues

•Family and/or parent-child concerns

•Domestic violence

•Divorce/separation adjustment

•Alcohol and drug concerns

•Grief/loss

•Depression and anxiety

•Farm conflicts and concerns

•Farm retirement, transfer or exit adjustment

•Health concerns

NY FarmNet has put together some documents that may help farmers and other people in the agricultural sector identify and cope with stress.

Identifying Signs of Stress in Farm Families

How Farmers Can Cope with Stress

Companion care services include daily tasks such as meal prep, light housekeeping, errands, shopping, medication reminders, assistance with pet care. Services also include social and interpersonal tasks such as spending quality time with your loved one by chatting and listening, playing board/card games, or transportation to doctor appointments and other outings.

Companion care services include daily tasks such as meal prep, light housekeeping, errands, shopping, medication reminders, assistance with pet care. Services also include social and interpersonal tasks such as spending quality time with your loved one by chatting and listening, playing board/card games, or transportation to doctor appointments and other outings.

The RCIL Leadership Academy is a groundbreaking 5 part series of training sessions for members of the Disability Rights community to learn the leadership skills needed for community and system outreach, influence and change.

If you are a person with a disability, visible or invisible, have experienced a change in lifestyle or abilities due to aging or injury, or work closely with the disability community . . . . . You are invited!

Our nation needs leaders with disabilities to hold positions of power and influence to help put an end to discrimination, stigmas and institutional bias. The motto, “Nothing About Us, Without Us”, depends on training leaders to prepare for positions that impact policy making and community building. It depends on YOU to join, learn and mentor others to do the same!

When Wanda (a current participant in the Leadership Academy's Media training session) was asked about the purpose of this group, she stated, “To make connections across a spectrum of deaf/disabled civil rights leaders of tomorrow, as well as gain an understanding of organizational tools and actions, with a good hard look at how to best utilize media; traditional and digital. All with a great group of people.”

Quotes from other Leadership Academy participants:

The Leadership Academy has helped me . . . “to become passionate about creating positive change.” – Jensen

“I have learned not to say, ‘THEY should change things.’ I have learned to say, ‘WE should change things.'" – Linda

“This training has taught me to speak about and share about disability rights issues with confidence – even to legislators.” – Carly

“This program has helped me meet a wide variety of people within the Deaf/Disabled community and to appreciate the beauty of our diversity.” – Maria

Here are the 5 training sessions we offer:

Disability Pride

Advocacy

Public Speaking

Media

Boards & Committees

Dates and Times of each training can be provided to you upon request! Contact the Regional Center for Independent Living for more information about the Leadership Academy, at (585) 442-6470 or info@rcil.org.

Home and Community Support Services are provided through our Licensed Home Care Services (LHCSA). A Registered Nurse will provide oversight to all orders from the participant’s medical practitioner recommending oversight, supervision, personal care services, mobility, meal preparation, and or light housekeeping tasks. Services are paid for through Medicaid or may be privately paid.

The caring Family Support Services staff aid households in Chemung and Schuyler County that have a family member who is developmentally disabled and living at home. The program promotes the physical and social well-being, education, and financial stability of individuals who have developmental disabilities by assisting them and their families in obtaining support and linkage to existing community resources and services.

The Economic Opportunity Program manages the Family Support Services Program with funding provided by the Office of People with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD). The program office is open Monday through Friday from 7:30a.m. to 3:30pm and is located in the Ernie Davis Family Center, next door to the Ernie Davis Community Center at Baldwin and Fifth Street.

Service Access:

The Family Advocate acts as a “Bridger” for individuals who may be eligible to receive Developmental Disability Services. The Family Advocate also assists individuals in pursuing OPWDD eligibility status by coordinating the paperwork process for an Eligibility Determination, assisting in Self-Advocacy and Person-Centered Planning, and follow-up with linkages to identified services and supports.

Family Reimbursement:

The Family Advocate helps facilitate funding for disability-related costs, services, and supplies. These requests are processed for approval at quarterly meetings with the Family Reimbursement Review Committee comprised of community and parent members.

Services can include: Medication reminders; Bathing assistance/monitoring only; Shopping; Appointments ; Transportation;

Assistance with moving or organizing; Reading, crossword puzzles, board games, etc.

Homemaker Duties

Errands and Transportation

Relief for Primary Caregiver

Regularly scheduled visits.

At Visiting Angels Horseheads, we provide reliable elderly care to seniors and disabled adults throughout the area. Our services are unique because they are customized to fit the needs of each individual client we work with. Your loved one's specific home care needs and scheduling requirements are the top priority in creating their elderly care plan from Visiting Angels Horseheads. There are countless ways we can assist your loved one, all of which are focused on their non-medical needs.

Some of the ways elderly care from Visiting Angels Horseheads can assist your loved one include:

Medication monitoring

Light housekeeping

Fall prevention

Running errands

Transportation needs

Grocery shopping

Household organization

Preparing meals