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Julia Trivett Dillon, MEOC’s Director
of Family Support Services, supervises MEOC’s award winning programs for
family caregivers. MEOC has been recognized by the National Council on Aging as
one of the nation’s top five programs for family caregivers and was featured
in the NCOA publication, “Together We Care: Helping Caregivers Find
Support”. In 2006, The National Alliance For Care giving recognized
MEOC as the nation’s top rural program in the category of caregiver support
services. This recognition was accompanied by a $25,000 check from The MetLife
Foundation. Ms. Dillon is recently back from receiving an award from The
National Association of Area Agencies on Aging—The 2007 Aging Innovation Award
for MEOC’s Students/Alzheimer’s Caregivers/ Technology Project. MEOC was the
nation’s top award winner in the Intergenerational Programming Category.
MEOC’s
Ginger Beverly R.N., seated, is Director of The Oxbow Adult Day Care Center.
MEOC employees Karen McGee, left, and Wanda Farmer, right, serve as Adult Day
Health Program Aides at the center. Together, they make a caring, experienced
team providing
quality care to those attending the center.
Dillon introduced MEOC’s staff
presently working at Oxbow. They are Director Ginger Beverly, RN and Karen McGee
and Wanda Farmer, program aides. She
said that “these three people
bring a wealth of experience to the program and we consider ourselves very
fortunate to have them as part of the MEOC team”. She noted that Beverly has
20 years experience as a geriatric case manager and that McGee and Farmer were
veterans of adult day health care services. She also introduced volunteer Betty
Domby of St. Paul who is a long time volunteer at adult day care and recognized
her for her devotion to the participants at the Oxbow Adult Day Health Care
Center.
Oxbow Board Chairman Bobby
Cassell, Heilbert and Maxwell then participated in a ceremonial signing of the
contract between Oxbow and MEOC.
Departments of
Social Services are very important partners in all that MEOC does
and are
welcomed partners in MEOC’s newest venture at Oxbow Adult Day Care.
Pictured
at the open house: are Roger Ramey, Director of Norton DSS; Pam Stewart,
Norton DSS Director of Adult Services; Vickie Hall, Wise County DSS Director of Adult
Services and Debbie Collier, Regional Long Term Care Ombudsman.
The open house concluded with lunch and
tours of the adult day care center.
A delicious catered
lunch was served to all attending the Oxbow Adult Day Care open
house. On the
left front to back are: Tracie Hall, Brain Injury Services of Southwest
Virginia
Case Manager, Thelma Gilley, Commonwealth Council on Aging and
Ken Gilley, MEOC
volunteer, On the right front to back are Dine Mullins,
Coeburn WIN Center
Assistant and Steve Garrett, Wise County Redevelopment and
Housing Authority.
All are very important partners in fulfilling MEOC’s mission.
For more information about the Oxbow
Adult Day Care Center and other programs and services for family caregivers of
MEOC, contact Julia Trivett Dillon at MEOC at 523-4202.
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