Contracted Community-Based Services

Services funded by Kitsap A/LTC and subcontracted to community providers.

	Adult Day Services
	Senior Nutrition Services
	Kinship Care Program
	Legal Services
	Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program
	Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP)

Kitsap A/LTC contracts with Elder & Adult Day Services Green Mountain Center to provide Adult Day Health and Day Care Services.

The Adult Day Health program is a supervised daytime program providing services intended to prevent or delay entrance into institutional care. addresses the physical, emotional, and cognitive needs of eligible clients.  provides a variety of health, social and related support services in a protective setting. provides relief for unpaid caregivers of persons with functional disabilities requiring assistance with activities of daily living. The Adult Day Care program . . . . [addt'l info by LH]

For more information, please call (360) 377-9810 or visit www.eads-cares.org.

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	Kitsap A/LTC contracts to provide hot, pre-plated meals of at least 1/3 Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) nutritional value at nine regular meal sites and two Senior Outreach Support Center sites in Kitsap County. *addt'l infor 2B contributed by Linda*
	The program consists of congregate and home-delivered nutrition services. helps increase the nutrient intake of older individuals who might not eat adequately. assists them to remain healthy and independent in their communities. serves meals to groups of seniors in a variety of settings across our county. allows participants to form new friendships and to interact in a social environment.
	In addition, meals are made available for daily delivery to clients' homes in the greater Bremerton area Monday through Friday and frozen meals in bulk quantities, county-wide, to persons assessed as homebound and unable to provide for their own nutritional needs. Services are available to all Kitsap County residents age 60 years and older. *addt'l info 2B contributed by Linda*
	Chuckwagon Senior Nutrition (360) 377-8511 or (888) 877-8511 Port Gamble S'klallam Tribe[LH 2add addt'l info] In-Home Nutrition Services Kitsap A/LTC contracts with Chuckwagon Senior Nutrition Services to provide home-delivered meal services in our county. Home-delivered meals are provided to vulnerable older persons who are home-bound by reason of illness, incapacitating disability, or who are otherwise isolated. This program intends to maintain or improve the health status of these individuals. support their independence. prevent institutionalization. allow earlier discharge from hospitals, nursing homes, or other residential care facilities. Each meal served contains at least one-third of the current Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) as established by the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences National Research Council.  Please see In-Home Services for further details.

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With funding from the National Family Caregiver Support Program and the State Kinship Caregivers Support Program, Kitsap A/LTC contracts with Kitsap Community Resources to provide services to grandparents and other relatives raising children throughout the county.

The program provides information to relative caregivers about available services. assistance to relative caregivers in gaining access to the services. limited financial assistance. emergency support services.

For more information, please call Kitsap Community Resources at (360) 377-0053 or visit their website, www.kcr.org.

Another valuable resource site: Kinship Care in Washington State

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Kitsap A/LTC contracts with Henderson*Jones*Short, PLLC, to provide senior legal services in Kitsap County.

This service provides legal services to county residents who are 60 years of age or older in social and/or economic need and in need of legal advice and/or representation on selected issues or entitlements.

The problems to be addressed are income maintenance health care housing guardianship protective services consumer transactions and ombudsman support.

For more information, please call (360) 876-9221or visit www.hendersonjonesshort.com. Legal services may also be obtained through Northwest Justice Project and Columbia Legal Services.

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Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program

The Ombudsman Program is a volunteer-based program intended to improve the quality of life for people who live in licensed long-term care facilities, including nursing homes, assisted living facilities, adult family homes, and the state veterans home.

Ombudsmen advocate for the rights of the residents guaranteed by federal and state laws and regulations. investigate and resolve concerns made by or on behalf of residents. work with residents, families, friends, operators and staff of facilities to meet resident needs and concerns. monitor laws, regulations and policies that affect those who live in long-term care facilities. recommend changes to those laws. provide public education about long-term care facilities, regulations governing them and the long-term care system.

The regional long-term care ombudsman supervises volunteers who visit residents in assigned facilities on a weekly basis. assists with resolution. provides training, support and recognition to the volunteers.

For more information, please call (360) 337-5714 or 1-800-562-6418, or visit the program's website.

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Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP)

The SFMNP provides low-income seniors 60 years of age and older with vouchers to purchase fresh, nutritious, unprepared, locally grown fruits, vegetables, and herbs from authorized farmers' markets from July through October.

The program provides nutrition educational materials including recipes nutrient values food preparation information food storage information.

In Kitsap County there are four farmers' markets (twenty-eight farms) and two roadside stands participating in the program.

Homebound seniors may receive home-delivered produce baskets of similar content through the Home-Delivered Meals program.

For more information, please call (360) 377-8511 or toll free (888) 877-8511

or visit Washington State University Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program

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