Activities, Programs, and Services offered by SCI

Activities, Programs, and Services


Throughout the year members participate in activities geared for personal growth, health and wellness, and community involvement. Our centers offer more than 100 instructional day and evening classes including computer training, pottery, stained glass, doll making, crafts, oil painting and water colors, picture framing, creative writing, card games, foreign languages, and performing choral, clown, drama and dance groups. Members participate in a variety of exercise classes, including Tai Chi and yoga. Popular dance classes are line dancing, tap, square and ballroom dancing. Other health and fitness opportunities include weekly classes in walking, swimming, and fitness plus periodic health screenings and lectures. Special interest groups cater to singles, couples, men only and women only.
The Senior Center for the Arts, located at the Donelson Station Center, presents plays and musicals year-round for the community, frequently in a dinner theater format. Call 883-8375 for a performance schedule, ticket prices or other information.
Volunteer service opportunities are available at our centers and through specific programs. Annually nearly 3,000 older adults invest approximately 250,000 volunteer hours in programs that include:
▪ Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) – matching individuals' interests and skills with community based programs. Information: 743-3424.
One RSVP volunteer opportunity is with Friends Learning in Pairs (FLIP), a program that places seniors in elementary public schools to mentor/tutor academically at risk students. RSVP/FLIP Information: 743-3422.
▪ Foster Grandparents – providing one-on-one loving relationships and support of senior adults for approximately 1,200 special-needs children annually. Information: 743-3420.
▪ MATURITY MATTERS Job Fair – annually linking area employees with job seekers age 40+.
Held in May at the Patricia Hart Building. Information: 743-3408.


Our Fountain Tours is a popular travel service. From daytime trips to destinations as far away as Alaska and Ireland, each venture is expertly supervised and planned with the interests and physical abilities of the participants in mind. The Fountain Tours program welcomes participation of non-SCI-member friends. For more information, please call tour coordinator Janice Judd at 883-8375.
The Senior Sentinel is the premier newspaper in middle Tennessee directed to the senior market. A mailed, one-year subscription is among the benefits of being a member or donor of Senior Citizens, Inc. The monthly edition contains news articles on topics of interest to older adults, calendars of events for the centers, other features, and advertisements of specialized products and services. Complimentary copies are available at public libraries and selected retail outlets. A one-year subscription is $15. Information: 743-3430.
INDEPENDENT-LIVING SUPPORT SERVICES
Living at Home is a comprehensive program offering a full range of services to nearly 1,000 frail elderly persons each year. These individuals are able to remain in their homes through care management support and such assistance as food, housing, transportation, health care, counseling, and conservatorship. Specific programs include:
▪ Adult Day Services* ─ providing a caring, safe environment for older adults who participate in social, exercise, and other engaging activities. Nutritional meals (more than 4,000 annually) are provided, along with transportation and social services as needed. For information, please call 463-2266.
▪ Meals on Wheels* – delivering more than 27,000 meals annually by approximately 300 volunteers, including special deliveries on weekends, Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. Meals are prepared by SCI’s food service staff. For information or to volunteer, please call 463-2264.
▪ Respite Caregivers – providing a trained volunteer to relieve a family member caring for a frail, elderly loved one to spend several hours away from the home to conduct business or to merely rest.
▪ Senior Companions ─ supplying support and companionship to individuals who live alone to help them maintain or regain their independence. For information or to volunteer, please call 743-3421.
▪ Care Management Support – making in-home assessments of needs followed by linking with services to meet such needs as food, housing, transportation, health care, counseling, and in-home assistance. For information, please call 743-3415 or 743-3418.
▪ Senior Support Services – sending trained volunteers and professionals into the homes of older adults with life adjustment difficulties to listen and help them better cope with their situations. For more information, please call 743-3414.
▪ Victory Over Crime – offering support services to elderly persons who have been victims of crime. For more information about services, call 743-3417; or to volunteer, please call 743-3436.
▪ Conservatorship Services – providing care of and making decisions on behalf of individuals and/or their property as appointed by the court. For more information, please call 743-3416.

* These programs are housed at Second Presbyterian Church, 3511 Belmont Blvd., Nashville. All others operate out of SCI’s corporate offices in the Patricia Hart Building at the intersection of Wedgewood and Rains avenues in Nashville.

For additional information about SCI, please visit our Web site: www.scitn.org.


FINANCIAL SUPPORT
As a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization, SCI relies on a variety of funding sources, events, and projects to support our programs, activities and services. Included in our support base are private and corporate donors, the State of Tennessee, U.S. government, foundations, the Area Agency on Aging, the United Way of Metropolitan Nashville and the United Way of Williamson County. Information: 743-3434. The Senior Citizens Foundation, SCI’s stewardship arm, manages the funds of SCI’s permanent endowment, annually returning a portion of the accrued interest to SCI programs and supporting endowment growth through education and planned giving opportunities/programs. For more information, including planned giving opportunities, please call 743-3405. 07/17/07