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Area Office on
Aging Receives and Toledo Public Schools Receive Statewide
Partnership Award
Special to The Truth
The Area Office on Aging
and Toledo Public Schools received a statewide award this
month for their partnership from the Ohio Association of
Area Agencies on Aging. This award recognizes the innovative
partnership between the two organizations.
This partnership includes
the organizations putting on an annual “Senior” Prom for
people age 60 and over where the TPS students roll out the
red carpet for the older adults, serving them dinner,
putting the corsages and boutonnieres on them and dance the
night away.
The partnership also helps
grandparents and relatives raising children by school
counselors connecting these students and their grandparents
and relatives who are raising them with the Area Office on
Aging’s Kinship Navigator Program. The Kinship Navigator
Program helps support these grandparents and relatives in
their caregiving role to help keep the children out of the
foster care system.
Another part of this
partnership is the TPS Golden Apple Card that lets anyone
age 60 and over get free admission to TPS sporting and music
events. Additionally, TPS opens several of its schools to
older adults for them to walk the hallways for exercise
during the cold months and then to walk the outdoor tracks
at TPS schools during the warmer months.
The Ohio Association of Area Agencies on Aging Partnership
Award recognizes unique and creative programs that meet the
needs of older Ohioans and serve as models of excellence to
be replicated by the 11 other Area Agencies on Aging in the
state.
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