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AGENCY TESTIMONY
Current services and support for kinship caregivers
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Commissioner Cortés-Vázquez outlines the current services and support offered by NYC Aging for kinship caregivers. These services have been refined and developed based on the findings from the 2017 survey and subsequent progress reports.
- Provides workshops addressing specific needs of kinship caregivers
- Offers counseling based on individual caregiver and care recipient needs
- Includes respite care for short-term relief
- Connects kinship caregivers to other relevant programs, such as the tenancy eviction support service program
- Emphasizes the importance of these services in keeping families within their communities and supporting both older adults and the younger people in their care
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
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In the years since this survey and the subsequent progress reports and updates we have provided the council, NYC Aging has refined and developed a growing caregiving program to serve older adults.
0:13:00
In New York State, as our chair indicated, one in eleven children live in a kinship caregiving home where they are living with a relative who is not their parent.
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NYC Aging Caregivers provides a, offers a range of services for the older relatives providing care for the child under the age of 18.
0:13:22
Caregivers provide, often provide workshops that address the needs of kinship caregivers in addition to overall caregiving needs and counseling based on the caregiver and the care recipient's, needs.
0:13:34
The respite care for, short term relief as caregivers navigate their duties and responsibilities in other service.
0:13:43
This is a vital component of the community care, plan, which I understand we're going to have community care, two zero one coming out soon.
0:13:54
And adds to the financial benefits of supporting older New Yorkers who ensure that they can age in place within the community that they serve.
0:14:02
Providing benefits and services for kinship caregivers keeps families within their neighborhoods and communities while supporting the older young, I mean the younger person who is experiencing changes within their family life.
0:14:15
This touches other areas of our work as well, such as a test program, which is the tenancy eviction support service program, where older adults who are caring for minors find themselves at threat of eviction and must be connected to a range of services provided through community care.
0:14:35
Because of this direct connection between kinship caregiver services and the community care plan, as well as our ongoing need to be efficient and effective as possible in our efforts to ensure high quality services.