PSS, the 63-year-old multi-service nonprofit company right here, introduced right now it has bought headquarters workplace area in midtown Manhattan, marking a transfer from its legacy administrative workplaces in Rutgers Presbyterian Church to a everlasting location.
The 4,000-square-foot area occupies the third flooring of 147 East 48th Avenue and can present a central hub the place employees and volunteers—who function at websites and within the subject all through the 5 boroughs–can work and meet for in-person programming, coaching and improvement. The area’s central location may even be ultimate for PSS’s Life! College older grownup schooling program to supply in-person courses equipping individuals to cope with life’s transitions. The company expects to maneuver into the area in April.
“It is a game-changer for the group,” stated PSS Govt Director Rimas Jasin. “Within the years earlier than COVID, PSS had been rising its programming to incorporate new choices resembling Circle of Care for caregivers and took over the operation of a number of older grownup facilities. Throughout COVID, the company expanded even additional, offering important on-line data by its PSS Life! College and digital capability constructing efforts. As COVID subsided, case administration providers directed at homebound older adults expanded within the Bronx, and a NY Connects contract introduced further providers to all of Brooklyn. Our new location provides us the area and suppleness to handle neighborhood wants on a deeper stage as we proceed to be an revolutionary chief in New York Metropolis’s ageing providers neighborhood.”
At this time, PSS operates ten Older Adult Centers within the Bronx and Higher Manhattan, a business kitchen in Throggs Neck, and two Senior Residences, in Queens and the Bronx. Its Case Administration group works from an workplace in Co-op Metropolis, whereas its NY Connects Brooklyn program serves that borough from an workplace in Flatbush.
“The Govt Director and the Board labored diligently to establish bodily area that met our present and future progress plans and made good monetary sense,” stated Josie Lawrence, PSS Board President. “This long-term funding is a testomony to the strong basis PSS has constructed with its purchasers, funders and companions and its perception in the way forward for New York Metropolis.”
Based in 1962 by volunteers from the New York Presbytery as Presbyterian Senior Providers to handle the wants of their ageing church members, PSS was headquartered in area donated by Rutgers Presbyterian Church. At this time, it’s an impartial, non-sectarian, non-denominational 501(c)( 3) group that serves almost 2,000 people every day all through all 5 boroughs and, in 2024, reached near 25,000 by its e-newsletters, outreach occasions, and neighborhood teaching programs. Its $13 million price range is funded by NYC Division for the Growing old, NYS Division of Well being, and numerous funders, which have included the Mom Cabrini Well being Basis, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Basis, and the Shopper Know-how Affiliation Basis, community-based organizations and personal donors.
About PSS
PSS is a multi-service non-profit 501(c)(3) company whose mission is to strengthen the capability of older New Yorkers, their households, and communities to thrive. Based in 1962, PSS has near 120 devoted employees and greater than 200 dedicated volunteers and interns serving all 5 boroughs. The group operates 10 community centers for older adults providing meals, every day actions and socialization, expertise and laptop abilities instruction, wholesome residing applications and onsite social employees. PSS operates two Senior Residences – one in Corona, Queens and the opposite within the Bronx. PSS Circle of Care helps households and buddies caring for somebody who’s frail, chronically sick or has reminiscence loss with caregiver and kinship household assist applications. PSS Life! University is a lifelong studying middle providing a program of digital, in-person and hybrid courses designed to encourage and equip individuals to navigate the transitions that include ageing. NY Connects Brooklyn ties older adults and disabled people of any age to assets in Kings County. PSS Case Administration serves and advocates for greater than 1,000 homebound older adults in Bronx Neighborhood Districts 9, 10, and 11. Purchasers are supplied with connection to house health-aide providers, home-delivered meals, and a variety of advantages and entitlements.
