Rsvp of suffolk county, new york, has served the long island community for 48 years, since 1972

This three-year, $1.3 million AmeriCorps Seniors Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) 94.002 project grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service Office of Grants Management will support Friends of the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program of Suffolk, Inc. in deploying approximately 800 unduplicated volunteers to address community needs on Long Island, New York through 2023. Primary services will focus on Healthy Futures initiatives to help the aging population access medical care and age in place through activities like companionship, food support, transportation, education/training, legal services and counseling. Volunteers will also engage in education tutoring/mentoring, environmental stewardship, economic opportunity and veterans/military family support. It is projected this funding combined with $175k in federal pass-through, $30k in non-federal and $44k in fundraising will result in over 400 volunteers improving outcomes for nearly 6,000 people through increased social/independent living supports and access to healthcare by the completion date.

An estimated 804 unduplicated volunteers will serve. Of this number, 786 rsvp volunteers will be placed in outcome assignments. Some of their activities will include companionship, food support, legal services, transportation, education/training, and counseling service activities. The primary focus for this project is healthy futures, with the goal of supporting the increasing older population and helping them age in place and have access to care. Rsvp of suffolk will also address other focus areas including education through tutoring and mentoring, environmental stewardship to support long island's ecosystem, economic opportunity, capacity building, and veterans and military families. To improve the quality of life in long island, we will deploy the skills and years of accumulated wisdom and dedication of rsvp volunteers to address community needs. At the end of the three-year grant, 423 unduplicated volunteers will support the primary focus area of healthy futures and will improve health outcomes for 5,943 people: 2,628 people will have increased social support or improved capacity for independent living; 2,880 will report improved access to medical care, and 435 people will report improved health. The cncs FEDERAL investment of $111,467 will be supplemented by securing funding sources provided annually from county, state and local agencies. $175,644 (FEDERAL pass thru) $22,899 (non-FEDERAL) from the suffolk county office for the aging, $5,000 from the town of east hampton, $6,014 from the new york office for the aging and $38,213 from fundraising efforts. The town of east hampton gives a $12,800 in-kind donation for the use of office space.