Health

Empowering Aging in Place: Educating Front-Line Professionals

• Establish curriculum for front-line workers that raises awareness about existing community-based services available for older New Yorkers.
  
• Pilot and refine curriculum through feedback sessions and trainings for front-line staff, including but not limited to:
  
• NYC Public Health Corps comprised of community health workers from NYC Health + Hospitals (H+H) and the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH);
• Geriatricians and social workers from H+H hospitals; and
• Mayor’s Public Engagement Unit’s public health educators.

• Institutionalize an approach to regularly review and update trainings and keep front-line professionals informed of new and changing services in real-time and regular occurrences.
• Identify and enroll professionals to receive trainings on different Cabinet agencies’ learning management systems;
• Conduct webinars twice annually with office hours during which front-line professionals from Cabinet agencies and community-based organizations can learn and ask questions about the services provided by NYC Aging; and
• Provide train-the-trainer sessions to reach more professionals.

NYC Parks Geriatric Mental Health Connections

• Increase access and decrease stigma around mental health services among older adults.
• Introduce mental health professionals in NYC Parks Recreation Centers to launch mental health programming and services for older adults.
• Pilot program at Fort Hamilton Senior Recreation Center with weekly presentations and discussions led by a licensed clinical social worker and planning to expand to other sites.