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2019 Board of Directors. Pat Gruet Corporate Secretary. Ed DeVries , Ph.D. Charley Manker. Dr. David Prigg President. David Parkinson Treasurer. Don Rohrer. Bob Willis. Fairfield Glade Resident Services is an ALL volunteer agency – no paid employees.
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2019 Board of Directors Pat Gruet Corporate Secretary Ed DeVries, Ph.D. Charley Manker Dr. David Prigg President David Parkinson Treasurer Don Rohrer Bob Willis
Fairfield Glade Resident Services is an ALL volunteer agency – no paid employees. Over 180 volunteers but room for YOU too!
History of FGRS: Neighbors Helping Neighbors • 2007 Senior Needs Study requested by FGCC • 2008 Senior Needs Study reported 14 areas of concern for senior residents • 2009 Fairfield Glade Resident Services incorporated as 501(c)3 to address needs • Human and Social Services Programs Created to address residents: • Changing life circumstances • Challenges with independent living and maintaining quality of life
Fairfield Glade Resident Services (FGRS) is a non-profit corporation chartered by the state of Tennessee and certified by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) public charity. Its vision and mission is to provide human and social service programs to all residents of our community, especially those who want to stay in their homes as they age. FGRS was formed by a group of resident volunteers who accepted the challenge and are dedicated to the principle that "Together, we can enhance our quality of life". The “independent" non-profit corporate status of FGRS offers the opportunity to establish a funding base, through grants, gifts, and fund raising activities, needed to support the development and implementation of resident services. It also provides for the recruitment of resident volunteers who will assist in delivering programs and services to "enhance our quality of life".
Mike Williams & Karen Lankford HDM Program Managers • Home Delivered Meals provides nutritious meals to a maximum of 20 households for: • Homebound residents unable to prepare meals for themselves • Residents returning home from the hospital or a rehabilitation stay • Volunteer Needs Include: Dispatchers and Dispatch Managers
HDM began in 2012 and in 2018 completed its 6th full year • Over 200 different FG residents have been served over 21,000 meals • Meals are delivered to a maximum of 20 homes every M, W, F • FGRS subsidizes a portion of the cost of each meal. Clients pay only $5/meal • 18 dispatchers and 35 drivers partner with the kitchen staff of Good Samaritan Society – FG to deliver healthy, nutritious meals.
Janna Anderson Program Manager • Trained Care Consultants work with residents to identify services needed to manage independent living challenges. • Consultants provide contacts to companies, programs, and support groups that can provide needed services. • Over 400 Fairfield Glade residents referred by friends, family, and neighbors have received assistance from Caring Connections Care Consultants. • Program Needs Volunteers to be trained to work as Consultants with Fairfield Glade residents
Charlie Manker, Program Manager • Transportation for non-drivers was identified as critical to a person’s independence in the 2008 Senior Needs Study • WTG! Provides essential rides within Fairfield Glade, Crossville, and Cookeville for Fairfield Glade residents • Prescheduled rides are given by friendly, courteous drivers M – F from 7am to 4pm, excluding holidays • $6 round trip personalized, door-to-door service for FG residents • Over 50 volunteer drivers who are Fairfield Glade residents have driven their own cars over 100,000 miles – Neighbors Driving Neighbors • Program Needs: More drivers and dispatchers
Quentin Erdahl Program Manager • Free county wide program sponsored by Fairfield Glade Resident Services • Medicine vials store personal critical medical and emergency contact information • Vials are stored in car’s glove box and home freezer so that first responders can retrieve as needed • Program Needs: Volunteers to assemble vials
Linda Chiaramonte Program Manager • Welcome Home volunteers personally deliver “Welcome Bags” to new Fairfield Glade home owners • Bags contain: • Gift cards • Maps • Lists of churches, clubs, and volunteer opportunities • Lists of healthcare providers, restaurants, and entertainment opportunities • Emergency telephone numbers and community resources • Program Needs: Friendly volunteers to assemble and deliver bags to new residents so that they feel welcome and quickly become acclimated to their new home
Office Coordinators Pam Mathies, Program Manager • Greet visitors to the office • Provide answers to visitors questions or refer them to the right resource • Provide administrative support for Directors and Program Managers • Schedule conference room and office use • Answer phones and retrieve phone messages
Plans and coordinates social activities for Fairfield Glade residents • Provides “companions” for weekly visits to home bound residents • Program Needs: A visionary leader to head up this new program, volunteers with outgoing personalities to help plan and organize social activities
Ed DeVries Program Manager • Music & Memory is a national certified program to help people with dementia and other chronic cognitive and physical impairment to reconnect with family and friends through personalized digital music • Volunteers customize music to the resident’s experiences and memories then create a digital play list • Digital music devices provided free of charge to residents of nursing homes or private homes • Volunteers provide training to the user or caregiver
FGRS has presented 39 Community Information Events on a wide range of topics since the program’s inception in 2009 • Community Information Events scheduled for 2019 include: • Healing Power of Music April 11, 2019 • Mental Health Updates July 2019 • Five Wishes August 5, 2019 • Watch the local papers for times and locations of these exciting events.
If You Believe In What We Are Doing………… Tell Your Friends & Neighbors Support our fundraising events Send us your great ideas! Become one of our valued volunteers
Become a “Friend of FGRS” • “Friends of FGRS” contribute as little as $10 /year, tax deductible • Will receive advance notice of FGRS events • Will receive the satisfaction that you have supported your friends, neighbors, and community who might need help in maintaining their independent lifestyles • OUR GOAL IS TO HAVE A “FRIENDS” DECAL ON EVERY CAR IN FAIRFIELD GLADE
PARTIAL LIST OF SOME OF OUR MANY COMMUNITY PARTNERS Dave Kirk Automotive Lions Club Gernt Insurance Happy Hound Realt y Fairfield Glade Ladies Club Cumberland Eye Care Cumberland Medical Center Cumberland County Bank Best Friends Veterinary Hospital Community Church Men’s Fellowship Rotary Club of Fairfield Glade Cumberland County Playhouse Westminster Presbyterian Church Council of Churches FG United Methodist Church Christ Lutheran Church St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church Council of Catholic Women
FGRS is located in the Fairfield Towne Center next to Benchmark Therapy and Progressive Bank • 4929 Peavine Rd. Suite 102 • Fairfield Glade, TN 38571 • Telephone: 931-456-7272 • email: FGRSoffice@frontier.com • Office open 9am to noon M-F