We're so proud to announce that SCS was one of two New York City organizations honored as this year’s Neighborhood Builders® by the Bank of America Charitable Foundation. The honor comes with a $200,000 grant over two years, and the opportunity to participate in Bank of America’s Neighborhood Excellence Leadership Program® with other nonprofit leaders from 45 communities across the country and London. Shown below, Sanket Bulsara (left), president of Sunnyside Community Services’ Board of Directors, and Judy Zangwill, SCS’s executive director, accept the check for $200,000 presented by Jeff Barker (right), New York City Market President at Bank of America, at the 2009 Neighborhood Excellence Initiative ® Awards celebration on November 19.
ADULT DAY SERVICES PROGRAM AIDS PARTICIPANTS AND FAMILIES
Does your loved one leave the house and forget the way home? Forget to take medications or turn off the stove? Become increasingly combative or irritated? Forget your name or the names of the grandchildren?
Do you find yourself increasingly stressed and worried about how to care for your loved one? Are you missing more days of work?
Caring for someone with memory disorders affects not only the individual, but the wholefamily. Nursing homes are not the only option.
SCS’s Social Adult Day Services program provides compassionate care, therapeutic activities, and supervision for seniors with Alzheimer’s, in a homelike environment that they can enjoy while you work, shop, or take care of your children or other responsibilities. The flexible daily schedule and a new “drop-in” option provide a number of ways that caregivers can get some much needed respite.
SCS's College Readiness Program helps you find the right college, prepare for the SAT exam, write a dynamite application essay, and win scholarships and other financial aid. Click here to visit the CRP website.
The winter program starts in January. To participate, register at 5 p.m. on Friday, December 18th at 43-31 39th Street, and take a mock SAT exam on December 19th. For more information, call Carole Wu at 718.784.6173, ext. 436.
SCS THROWS A PARTY TO HONOR JUDY ZANGWILL
On October 22, 2009, SCS hosted our annual benefit reception. This year we honored our own executive director Judy Zangwill, who has built SCS from the small, local organization that existed when she became executive director in 1990 to one of the largest nonprofit organizations in Queens. Today Sunnyside comprises three corporations including two licensed home care agencies and a range of programs serving more than 18,000 Queens residents from age five to over 100. Speakers included Lucille Hartman, whose father had participated in our Adult Day program for seniors with Alzheimer's and other memory disorders, and Arlene Casimir, a graduate of our College Readiness Program, along with current board president Sanket Bulsara and two former board presidents, M. Joseph Levin and Ronald Cavalier. For more images of the event, click here.
SCS would like to thank the event’s sponsor, Con Edison, as well as all our wonderful friends, individuals and corporations, who expressed their support in the event Journal and in so many other ways. We are looking forward to celebrating our 35th anniversary in 2010. We hope to see you here!
Left to right: M. Joseph Levin, Judy Zangwill, Ronald Cavalier, and Sanket Bulsara. Photo by Joel Weber.
In an all-day celebration, Sunnyside Community Services’ award-winning Center for Active Older Adults officially opened its doors in September 2008. Above, left to right, Lillie Navarro, Marie Konecko, Rob McCreanor, Rita Manton, David Whyne, and Richard McGrade cut the ribbon to celebrate the official opening of the new Center; photo by Joel Weber, Beechtree Images. Below, images of the new Center, photos by Oleg March.
Most photographs on this website, other than news items, are by Joel Weber.
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