Selfhelp Community Services

Support Selfhelp's Annual Fund

Donations to our Annual Fund enable us to provide quality care to elderly Holocaust survivors, the senior citizens who live in our housing or rely on our senior centers, and frail individuals with chronic illnesses and their families whose lives are improved by the care they receive in our home care programs.

• Selfhelp has the largest Nazi Victim Services Program in North America, providing comprehensive services to more than 5,300 victims of Nazi persecution.

• Selfhelp’s six senior residences provide affordable apartments for more than 1,000 low and moderate-income seniors in the metropolitan New York area.

• Selfhelp’s six senior centers serve approximately 8,000 senior citizens. Last year the centers served 157,358 hot lunches and 35,175 home delivered meals.

• Selfhelp employs nearly 2,000 home care workers and staff who provide approximately 3.0 million hours of service annually to elderly and frail individuals and their families.

• This past year, Selfhelp Alzheimer’s Resource Program (SHARP) provided 21,224 hours of adult day care and social activities to families at our sites in Bayside, Maspeth and Flushing.

• Selfhelp provided case management services to over 7,260 elderly individuals at our three locations.

• The Evelyn Frank Legal Resources Program works to help raise the level of awareness of rights of the elderly and in 2006 consulted on over 920 individual cases.

• Selfhelp’s Community Guardian program serves as court-appointed legal guardians for more than 260 elderly clients who are unable to manage their financial or domestic affairs.

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