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The Outreach Department serves as a liaison between the senior population (55 plus) and the services available to them.
These services include (but not limited to):
- Direct service through consultations
- Needs assessments
- Crisis intervention
- Home visits
- General information and referrals to health, social, Veterans and legal services
- social, veteran and legal services
Assistance is available with all types of applications such as:
- Housing/Health/Disability insurance forms, Social Security
- Food stamps, DTA (Department of Transitional Assistance)
- Cash assistance
Available programs are:
- Employment Assistance, Friendly Visitor and Well-Being Checks
- LifeLine (home monitoring system)
- "R U OK" and "File of Life"(through Norfolk County Sheriff's Office)
- Utility discount programs through NSTAR and Verizon
- Fuel Assistance (SELF-HELP)
- Citizen's Heating Oil
- Work-Off Property Tax, Tax Abatement through the Assessors Office
- Income Tax Preparation (AARP)
- Medical Equipment Loan and Health Insurance