The program is educationally oriented with a curriculum designed to respond to the developmental stages of children and youth between the ages of 3 and 17. The community collaborator's objectives are to reduce fire incidents and fire setting activity among youth and provide a safer environment for the residents of Hampshire County. For more information, call Mary Snyders at 854-8887. In February 2001, the chapter kicks off a program to assist with the transition from a medical facility to home for older adults who do not have a family member close by to help. Volunteers visit patients in the hospital before discharge and on the day they arrive home, if possible.
Volunteers continue to provide telephone reassurance between visits.
Call our Homecoming program coordinator for more information at 854-8887. The program is for those who would otherwise not receive potentially life-saving information and instruction in how to prepare for and prevent the possibly devastating effects of natural emergencies. Verbal presentations and information packets to elders and families target winter storms, spring flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes, and home or community fires. Special outreach targets the elderly and information is provided to homebound seniors.