Finance and Budgeting Enthusiasts! Help Older Adults Manage Their Money

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You can make a huge difference in an Older Adult's life by helping them with simple money management tasks. Depending on your talents, you may be helping a client with balancing a checkbook; for those with vision impairment, you may be reading their monthly bills aloud. These tasks are very important to someone trying to maintain their independence and their sense of self-worth. Your presence and enthusiasm in keeping an older adult involved in managing their own financial affairs is a critical element in helping them remain in their own homes.

Volunteers must be available to serve during normal business hours, must be willing to enter into a client's home, and must be able to provide their own transportation to client's home. This opportunity asks a volunteer to make a commitment to serve for at least 9 months and be willing to offer at least four to ten hours per month. Volunteers must be at least 21 years old and have experience in finance, accounting and/or business.

[Kenneth Young Center provides community mental health and senior services to the northwest suburbs. Clients and their families come to us in some of their most desperate moments, and we help by providing:

• Service coordination and in-home services for frail elderly persons.
• Counseling for adults, children, families.
• Assessment, stabilization, linkage for adults/children in psychiatric crisis.
• Treatment, support, and recovery services for those with serious mental illness. Volunteer opportunities.

To learn more about us, or to contact us directly, please visit our website at: www.kennethyoung.org]