An estimated 400 unduplicated volunteers with this grant

Of this number, 265 rsvp volunteers will be placed in service assignments with "outcomes", with 205 volunteers serving in the primary focus area of "healthy futures". Rsvp volunteers will help prevent elder abuse through the organization's three-part senior fraud initiative: fraud squad players who perform scenes depicting current frauds followed by a volunteer-led discussion; through the fraud brigade senior center-based "active listeners" who help other seniors who believe they have been targeted; and through "rsvp's senior fraud helpline" a toll-phone number answered by rsvp volunteers trained to help the caller determine if the threat is real, and, if so, refer the caller to community resources, including the MA attorney general's worcester office, the A.G.'S consumer rights program in worcester, local law enforcement, the district attorney's office for the county, and more. Rsvp's project director is a member of the MA attorney general's office coalition on identity theft. At the end of the three-year grant, over 2000 seniors will have had a daily hot meal through rsvp meals on wheels and congregate meals volunteers; 40 seniors will have improved their health and decrease their likelihood of falling; 2025 elderly will have increased knowledge of scams and frauds by attending fraud squad player performances or calling the helpline; 3500 individuals will report increased food security, and 500 students will increase their academic engagement. Rsvp worcester volunteers will provide: companionship while serving as hospice volunteers, tutors of first generation students hoping to attend college, support the building and repair of affordable and safe housing units, serve as ESL tutors, in public schools, as story time readers, at a blood-pressure clinics, and much more. At the end of the three year grant cncs federal investment of $195,847 will be supplemented by $83,933 of non-federal resources.