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Honoring Center in the Park on its 45th Anniversary and recognizing its efforts to enhance the health and wellness of local older adults.
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WHEREAS, Center in the Park has embraced a mission of promoting healthy, positive aging and seeks to create a community of involvement and support for older women and men. For 45 years, the Center has offered a wide range of programs and opportunities to share and create life experiences that also help to build community. Center programs also offer diverse groups of people opportunities to connect and to better understand each other.
WHEREAS, Center in the Park programs include community involvement and volunteer activities in addition to a vibrant learning curriculum. The Center also offers comprehensive health and wellness programs and activities, including an on-site fitness center, and evidence-based health promotion and education programs specifically designed for older adults; and
WHEREAS, Center in the Park offers an extensive life-long learning curriculum, a vibrant arts and humanities program, a rewarding intergenerational program and; social services, including In home support, energy assistance and housing counseling; and
WHEREAS, The Center began with one staff person and seventy-five members in one room and has grown into a staff of twenty-five, an eighteen member board and hundreds of volunteers, offering programs with health promotion, wellness, nutrition, social, recreational and educational components for its over six thousand members; and
WHEREAS, Center in the Park continues to be a leader in the provision of aging services and creative programming. Recently, Center in the Park was selected by the National Council on Aging as one of five senior centers nationwide to pilot an Aging Mastery curriculum for older adults, designed to empower participants to make and maintain small but impactful changes in their health behaviors and to test whether or not the use of incentives will se...
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