Community Services Consortium

Serving Linn, Benton, and Lincoln counties in Oregon. Helping people. Changing lives.

Saturday, January 30, 2010

RSVP volunteers spend Martin Luther King Day helping seniors

In honor of Martin Luther King Day, volunteer Griffin Nickerson is stuffing bags with a safety kit and information about the SASSI program. He joins six other volunteers including his mother, Kathleen Nickerson, RSVP Program Coordinator, to help Community Services Consortium’s RSVP program distribute the information to seniors. They left packets with seniors in two 55+ mobile-home communities, one in Albany and one in Corvallis.

SASSI helps independent seniors maintain safe and secure homes. The program is made up of local volunteers and law enforcement personnel who offer free home security and fire safety inspections and education to Benton and Linn County residents 55 years of age and older.

Free or low cost services provided by SASSI:
• Home and fire safety inspections
• Security hardware installation
• Visible address numbers
• Personal safety education
• Identify additional home hazards
• Emergency services
• Fire escape plans
• Resource information and referrals
• Engraving valuables

Call RSVP at (541) 753-9197 or (541) 812-0849 to schedule an inspection or for more information.
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