NOTES FROM BEACON HILL VILLIAGE WORKSHOP

Notes Workshop 11/10/08 "Village to

Village.
Attendees from all parts of nation.
How to create a village
Create your own plan
14 Massachusetts existing plans in
operation with different Business

plans and operations geared to Keep

people in the home and supported

"neighbor to neighbor"
Presentation on how areas can

participate like a unit Westside
villiage. --Malden Tri City area
MAlden
EVERETT
MEDFORD RIVERS EDGE.
cOMBINED MELROSE AND MALDEN
Talk about 400 diverse community

membership to make it go
transportion problems (nation wide)
Neighbors helping neighbors
Subsidized
AVAILABLE IN MALDEN AREA NEED

UPDATING
Malden Senior Center

medical,shopping,mayors recreation

activities (Hallmark Health)
Local Grocery Stores to subsidized

Housing units
SCM for out of city locations and
Paul' Place for special activities.
look into a way to extend service

and assure more participation.
Stay in Home-Choice is power over

own self reliance. Relieve family

members from daily chores to remain

independent (one stop service)
Maintain majority of control

independence.
Beacon Hill Village and Similiar

groups have 25% subsidized FOR

members. 85% renewal on all

memberships
Give One Stop Shopping for service.
100% satisfaction guaranty.
Malden has many Seniors (10,000) to

get involved as well as a new

transient population(new comers) to
apartment condos to get involved.
The idea of the "aging at home"

Neighbor to Neighbor concept is to

make Seniors (elderly) feel like

owners not clients
450,000 cost 1000 per member
Reflect your community Sense of Age
We ARE not a "bingo game"

individualists to make it go.
Get a business plan
Well Known members of the community.
Those with visiability to attact

attention and need of program.
time needed to give needed

attention.
City of Malden Groups involved
MALDEN REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
cITY PLANNER WITH THE VISION FOR

MALDEN PROGRAM 0UTREACH
DIRECTOR OF MALDEN HOUSING
DIRECTOR OF ELDERLY AFFAIRS
MALDEN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
OUR CITY COUNCIL WARD REPRESENTIVES
TO GET SENIORS IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD

INTERESTED AND INVOLVED.
OUR AT LARGE TO PROMOTE OUR PROGRAM

WITH CITY BUSINESSES OUTREACH TO

WHOLE COMMUNITY
YMCA PROGRAM FOR ELDERLY IN

SUBSIDIZED HOUSING.
GET A BANK SPONSOR
(BANK OF AMERICA)
GET A MAIN MEDICAL PROVIDER
(bEACON HILL MASS GENERAL)
NON PROFITS
MYSTIC VALLEY ELDER SERVICES
HEALTHY MALDEN
TRI CAP ETC
hAVE A MISSION OT ASSIST SENIORS AND

OBLIGATION TO USE THEIR GRANTS

OBTAINED TO ASSIST SENIORS NOT JUST

TO PROMOTE THEIR PRODUCTS.
GET A COMMUNITY BUILDING INVOLVED
MALDEN SENIOR CENTER (KEY TO

ACTIVITIES)
ORGANIZE THOSE SENIORS AND FAMILIES
ON WEB "MEETUP.ORG.
OUTREACH MEMBERSHIP
60% OF MEMBERSHIP COVER COSTS
NEED TO RECRUIT 6 NEW MEMBERS PER

MONTH.
GET OTHER VILLIAGES INVOLVED WITH

NETWORKING.
FIND OUT WHAT MEMBER WANT.
GET CHARTER MEMBERS AT START
FIND ALL SERVICE GROUPS WITH SENIOR

MEMBERS TO BE INVOLVED.
YOU WILL HAVE SPIN OFF GROUPS FOR

SPECIAL INTERESTS.
MUST HAVE BIG VARIETY ACTIVITIES TO

KEEP UP INTEREST.
HOUSEWORKS PRIVATE HOME CARE
WWW HOUSEWARKS.COM
BEACON HILL AND NEWTON AT HOME
HOME CARE FRANCHISE AVAILABLE IN

mALDEN
FUNDING
lISTING DONORS
DIRECT MAIL (USE ACCESS EXCEL)
BOARD CONTRIBUTIONS $500
COMMUNTY $400
MEMBERS
FOUNDATIONS
FAMILY TRUSTS
STATE PROGRAMS MANEY FOLLOW THE

PERSON.
VOLUNTEERS TO RAISE FUNDS
TALK PERSON TO PERSON
AARP FOUNDATION
RECRUITMENT
GET THOSE WITH DEVERSE INTEREST.
SELL AS LONG TERM CARE INSURANCE.
SERVICES FOR THE WHOLE MEMBERSHIP
EXPLAIN WHAT IS THE BENEFIT OF HOME

CARE.
NONE OF THE VILLIAGES TALKED ABOUT

THE ROLE OF THE GOVERMENT,

FEDERAL,STATE AND LOCAL IN HELPING

WITH SERVICE AND GETTING HOME CARE

LEGISLATION UNTIL I TALKED TO THE

WASHINGON D.C. REPRESENTATIVE WHO

MENTIONED AN $85,000 EACH EARMARK

FOR ALL THE WARDS IN DC
MY CONCLUSION
WE ARE READY TO GO.
WE HAVE ALL THE SERVICES AVAILABLE
WE HAVE THE ORGANIZATIONS TO PROVIDE

SERVICES NEED EDUCATION OF POTENTIAL

MEMBERS OF WHAT IS AVAILABLE AT A

REASONALBLE PLACE.
WE NEED ALL THE "PILOT PROGRAMS"

CONDUCTED BY NON PROFITS UNDER

CONTROL OF THOSE WITH SENIORS IN

MIND.
dEDICATED ACTIVE MEMBERS WORKING TO

HELP THEMSELVES AND THEIR NEIGHBORS.