Social Worker is available to meet 1-on-1 for emotional support, short-term counseling and resource navigation. Community referrals will be made for situations that need more intensive psychological interventions. 
Also offers:
- Legal Advisor 2nd M of the month. Appointments must be made in advance.
- Caregiver Support Group 2nd and 4th Th, for caregivers of family members with Alzheimer’s or memory loss.

Counseling and Support offered by Sno-Valley Senior Center

Provides a social worker for emotional support, short-term counseling and resource navigation for older adults. Coordinates a caregiver support group and a grief support group. Facilitates a legal advice service and a financial planning service.

Programs that provide emotional support, information and guidance in a variety of settings for older adults who are having mental, emotional or social adjustment problems that have arisen as a result of the process of aging. Geriatric counseling services are provided primarily by social services professionals including licensed social workers rather that psychiatrists or other medical personnel.

Geriatric Counseling

Programs that provide information and guidance for people who want to purchase securities or place money or property in business ventures, real estate or other investment plans for the purpose of earning profits. Included are programs that focus on wealth building through a combination of investments, debt reduction and savings to realize long or short-term financial goals which may include having an emergency fund, owning a home or a business, paying for a child's education or having enough money to live comfortably during retirement years.

Investment Counseling

Programs that provide information and guidance for individuals who need assistance in the area of law which relates to the rights and needs of older adults, especially in the areas of age discrimination, consumer fraud, estate planning and management, living trusts, trust administration, probate, property law, retirement planning, pension benefits, Social Security benefits, Medicaid and Medicare, disability planning, long-term care alternatives, health care decisions, elder abuse, guardianships and conservatorships.

Elder Law

Mutual support groups whose members are family, friends, significant others, non-familial caregivers or attendants who are caring for someone who has a temporary, chronic, life-threatening or terminal illness or disability or who is elderly and increasingly unable to provide for his or her own care. The groups meet in-person, by telephone or via the Internet; and provide emotional support, information and resources to help participants ensure their own well-being while remaining involved in the intense care of a loved one. Also included are care receiver support groups that help people who have a caregiver cope with the fact that they require care. Care receiver support groups are often offered in conjunction with caregiver support groups and are structured to allow care receivers to participate in their own group while their caregiver attends another.

Caregiver/Care Receiver Support Groups

Mutual support groups whose members are people who have experienced a loss, such as the death of a loved one, divorce or separation. The groups meet in-person, by telephone or via the Internet; are open to anyone who has had a loss rather than structured for people with particular types of losses; and focus on helping participants accept their loss, express their grief, move through the bereavement process and put their lives back together.

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Counseling and Support offered by Sno-Valley Senior Center