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GRANT-2025-3 : Acceptance of Field Demonstration Project Area: Age Friendly/Dementia Friendly Capacity Building in the amount of $10,000
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GRANT-2025-3 Grant Acceptance of Field Demonstration Project Area: Age Friendly/Dementia Friendly Capacity Building in the amount of $10,000 Ought to Pass City Council
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▶ 1:55 Maya Jamaleddine: Uh, first item on our agenda is Grant, 2025 dash three. Acceptance of field demonstration project area, age friendly, dementia friendly capacity building in the amount of $10,000. Good evening.
▶ 2:13 Speaker 3: Good evening counselors. Good to be back with you. Uh, so this grant is, uh, from the Massachusetts Councils on Aging. Um, this particular, um, application was for dementia and age friendly capacity building. So, um, our goals for this particular, um, project would be, uh, three key areas. One, to, um, conduct information sessions for local businesses, the public and city departments to train on, um, dementia and, um, you know, how to interact with folks, um, who may be, um, diagnosed with that. Um, we would like to install some way finding signage on the COA campus to make it more accessible and friendly for folks who are navigating, um, as well as create some print resources. So, um, a resource guide that we could distribute to folks to have in their home that would be kinda like a quick hit, um, you know, general resources in, in the city. And we'd hope to recreate that, um, each year as we, um, can update some of those things as well as, um, a map that would help people navigate the city, um, and locate different resources that would be available to them.
▶ 3:35 Maya Jamaleddine: Thank you. Do we have any question from counselors?
▶ 3:44 Maya Jamaleddine: Seeing none, um, I would like to actually, um, suspend the rules so I can ask you as the chair. Um, and seeing no objection, I would, uh, um, I, you know, uh, the rules are now suspended, but I do have a couple questions. Who, uh, would be benefiting from, uh, this program? Is it just, um, uh, you know, the members that are participating in your program or citywide?
▶ 4:12 Speaker 3: Um, so the great thing about this is that it would be, um, beneficial to not just the aging population, but, um, all residents in Melrose. So, um, those resource guides could be distributed to anyone. They would have, you know, age related materials as well as, um, general resources. Um, and then the goal of age friendly, dementia friendly is to create a welcoming and accessible community for all. So, um, it really would impact, um, all residents, not just older adults. Okay.
▶ 4:40 Maya Jamaleddine: And do we have any, uh, plan to, for the outreach, uh, for instance, family members that, uh, are caring for someone with dementia, how we can reach out to them?
▶ 4:54 Speaker 3: Sure. So we already have, um, a caregiver support group hosted at the Milano Center. So, um, we'll plan to start there. Um, but we do have, um, you know, plans to campaign within our newsletter as well. Um, I'm sure the mayor's office would be, um, willing to have us in some of the, um, literature that goes out, like the weekly update and things like that. So, um, we'd hope to pull from, from folks, um, not just from our own membership, but throughout the community.
▶ 5:21 Maya Jamaleddine: Yes. Awesome. And I, I am aware of, uh, few organizations that do run those programs or do have clients in Melrose, such as Elliot and Mystic Valley. I'm not sure if we have any connection that we can share those information with them so that they can also benefit from that program. Absolutely. I app I do appreciate your effort. Um, uh, what is the will of the committee
▶ 5:47 Speaker 4: Motion to recommend? Second,
▶ 5:49 Maya Jamaleddine: We have a motion to recommend made by Councilor Kati, seconded by Vice Chair Williams. Um, Mme. Kirk,
▶ 5:56 Speaker 3: Council Ro? Yes. Council Ope. Yes. Council Hamilton? Yes. Councilor Jamine. Yes. Chair Jamine. Councilor Karen Chaney? Yes. Council Armo? Yes. Councillor Stewart? Yes. Council Ver Yes. Council Williams? Yes. And president? Me? Yes. That is nine. Yes.
▶ 6:18 Maya Jamaleddine: Thank you. This order passes. Thank you so much for being with us. Right. Um, next on our agenda. 10. Yes. Excuse me. 10. Um, 10. Yes. Um, next on our agenda is Grant 2025 dash two. Acceptance of Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan, update Grant from, uh, MEMA and fema, um, to we, yeah.