Neighbors Care Alliance
What is a Neighbors Care Program?
Why It Matters • Independence: Older adults can remain in familiar surroundings, preserving their autonomy and quality of life, knowing that help is available if needed. • Social Wellness: Regular interactions and check-ins help prevent loneliness and decline, offering out-of-town family members the reassurance that someone is providing support to their loved one. • Community Resilience: Neighborhoods become more connected, interactive, and supportive. • Volunteer Engagement: Volunteers participate in meaningful, impact-driven roles close to home, knowing they are making a difference in their community. The Neighbors Care Alliance is more than just a collection of volunteer programs. Through a tapestry of local initiatives, the NCA weaves a stronger, more compassionate social fabric one ride, call, or visit at a time. Does your neighborhood have an informal neighbors-helping-neighbors program that would benefit from support? If not, would you like to learn how you can start one? For more information visit nca.pcoa.org or call Christina Walker, PCOA Volunteer Services Program Manager at (520) 258-5062.
A Neighbors Care Program (NCP) is a volunteer caregiving program that allows neighborhoods, faith communities, and other organizations to help older adults remain independently in their homes for as long as possible, through neighborly support. Each of the programs is independently managed, serving defined geographic zones or specific populations. What do NCP volunteers do? NCP Volunteers offer a wide spectrum of services tailored to the essential and emotional needs of older adults. Services can include transportation to medical appointments and grocery stores, errands, meal or emergency food box delivery, light house or yard work, phone check-ins, companion- ship visits, and even short-term caregiver respite. Each group decides which of these services they would like to offer. Through their efforts, they address day-to-day practical needs but also combat the significant and often overlooked challenge of social isolation.
What is Neighbors Care Alliance? The Neighbors Care Alliance (NCA) is a network of neighborhood volunteer programs with a shared mission of helping older adults thrive safely in their homes for as long as possible. The programs serve specific geographic areas, and each is independently organized. Pima Council on Aging serves as the program administrator and provides tools to build infrastructure, volunteer training, opportunities for networking, access to community resources, and mileage reimbursement.
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