Lifestyle Enrichment Center

While CCSS provides many services and special care for seniors it has not been easy moving forward quickly without much needed funding. Since 2009 the budget has not grown. The challenge of keeping experienced staff; maintaining expensive vehicles running safely is difficult. Providing necessary operating funds to meet expenses is vital. The Dementia Specific Adult Day Care is the most expensive project we administer. Yet, it may well be the most in demand service.

In the fall of 2015, the Board of Directors and the Executive Director decided that the only way to move forward was to ask the community’s help in supporting services to the 60+ population. Creating an annual campaign to help sustain critical services to seniors was the answer.  Government funding and grants provide 67 percent of the CCSS annual budget. These grants are never guaranteed to last.  In order to build a sustainable future CCSS, must seek community support to meet the growing needs of the elder population. CCSS must diversify.

You may be asking yourself “Why should I help you serve seniors here in Columbia County? Why can’t they help themselves? I will never need your services. I have planned for my financial future.”  You or a member of your family may need transportation or other assistance in order to continue to live independently. Will CCSS be there when you need them? The future depends upon a reliable income stream to support the needed staff and facilities.

While none of us can forsee the future, we can plan for it. Your support is vital to the adult seniors in Columbia County.  Whether you have already planned for your future or not, you can make a commitment to help CCSS by investing in the Lifestyle Enrichment Center’s holistic approach to senior living.  You will make it possible to ensure these services are there for you should you, family or friends need them. Your investment in LEC will make a difference in  the quality of life to live independently in your own home and be augmented by the activities and socialization at LEC. When the community supports LEC everyone benefits and we are all enriched.