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Spring Award Winners

Bone Builders

Fight Osteoporosis with Research-Based Exercise.

Enroll this summer – classes resume in fall 2009!
(Recommended for people age 55 and older)

Locations in both Schuyler and Yates Counties

To enroll, contact RSVP at(607) 535-7105 or (315) 694-1081

RSVP is sponsored by Cornell Cooperative Extensionof Schuyler County, which provides equal program and employment opportunities.  Please contact us if you have any special needs.Funding for Bone Builders is provided by the Corporation for National & Community Serviceand NYS Office for the Aging

Stewards Choose Battery Recycling Project

Volunteer members of the "Retiree Environmental Stewardship Program" (RESP) recently completed a 10-week series of workshops focusing on environmental issues, resulting in the decision to raise public awareness about the proper recycling of rechargeable batteries.

In an effort to reduce the accumulation of toxic materials in landfills, the volunteers will conduct a campaign titled “Know Your Batteries,” which will focus on public education about the various types of household batteries and their proper disposal.

RESP is a collaborative effort of RSVP, Cornell University, Chemung EMC and Cornell Cooperative Extension of Schuyler County.

Older adults interested in participating in community volunteer opportunities should contact Schuyler-Yates RSVP serving Schuyler and Yates Counties at (607) 535-7105 for further information.

Your RSVP Stories
Nancy Davis and Anne Myers
By Kim Salisbury

Why do people volunteer you may ask? The answer is as varied as the volunteer you may ask the question of. That has been my experience as the Coordinator, of the Chemung-Schuyler-Tioga Long Term Care Ombudsman Program. And when I sat down recently to talk to two of my ombudsmen volunteers, I was neither surprised nor disappointed by their responses. RSVP volunteers Nancy Davis and Anne Myers are trained and certified long term care ombudsmen volunteers with the Chemung-Schuyler-Tioga Regional Long Term Care Ombudsman Program (LTCOP). As ombudsmen, they advocate on behalf of residents who live at the New Falls Home and Seneca View Nursing Home here in Schuyler County. After successfully completing the 36-hour training program, Nancy and Anne were assigned to their facilities where they visit the residents on a weekly basis and help to resolve any questions, concerns or issues that the residents or the resident’s representatives may express.

Both ladies learned about the Long Term Care Ombudsman Program through the Schuyler-Yates RSVP. Nancy, a retired Registered Nurse, was somewhat familiar with the program and she states that she decided to volunteer as an ombudsman because she knew that the residents could benefit from such a program and that she would enjoy the interpersonal relationships that she wasn’t able to have with her patients. Anne, on the other hand, a newcomer to the area, knew nothing about the program until she sat down with Beth Lisk, Director of the Schuyler-Yates RSVP to learn more about volunteer opportunities in the community. Anne states that Beth thought that Anne’s experiences working with families and children would be beneficial and that she would be good with residents. Anne states that she was willing to try it because she knew that from talking to Beth Lisk and from her conversations with me that the program is “needed” and “necessary”. Both Nancy and Anne are quick to agree that the time they spend with their residents talking and getting to know them, gaining their trust, helping to resolve issues big or small, as well as the thanks and smiles they get, is extremely rewarding. Anne states that being a volunteer ombudsman is “challenging”, but the more time she spends with her residents the more comfortable she becomes. Nancy states she truly enjoys the relationships she makes and takes “pride” when a resident tells a new resident to “talk to her” because she has helped me.