Title III Request for Proposals
Community Services
Each year Coastline funds numerous programs that meet the needs of older adults living throughout New Bedford, Acushnet, Dartmouth, Fairhaven, Gosnold, Marion, Mattapoisett, and Rochester. These organizations are funded to provide older adults and their caregivers with supplemental programs that address their mental and physical well-being, socialization and transportation needs. Most programs are open to individuals age 60 or older; some programs are open to individuals age 55 and older.
Wellness Programs
Acushnet COA: Strong Women. Strong Bones
Program focuses on core strengthening and balance along with limited weight bearing exercise. Contact: 508-998-0280.
Buzzards Bay Speech Therapy: Cognitive Wellness
Provides self-improvement classes to address a variety of cognitive communication changes seen in typical aging as well as neurological disorders. Contact: 508-326-0353.
Gosnold COA: Health for our Community
Help give advice, check on medications, nutrition, blood pressure, and coordinate with New Bedford for referrals. Contact 508-990-7408.
Marion Council on Aging: Evidence-Based Program
Provides evidence-based programs that have a proven track record of improving balance, strength, and coordination. Contact: 508-748-3570.
Moxie Mobility: Moving with Moxie & Hey Moxie
Provides exercise and balance classes to older adults, and educational courses for Caregivers to facilitate their caregiving efforts through exercise-based programming. Contact: 508-450-6774.
New Bedford Art Museum: Creative Care Program
Provides community art classes to help support wellness and cognitive health among older adults. Contact: 508-961-3072
Southcoast LGBTQ+ Network: Aging Well
This social wellness program helps support older adults by providing them with peer health supports and community activities. Contact 774-775-2656.
Legal Services
South Coastal Counties Legal Services/Senior Law Project
This organization provides older adults with legal representation in the courts and before administrative bodies including the Social Security Administration. This organization also provides older adults with counsel and advice on a variety of legal issues.
Contact 508-979-7150
Outreach and Socialization
City of New Bedford: BHOAP - Community Elder Behavioral Health Support Program
Helps to address the behavioral health needs of older adults through in-home and community-based support groups, by receiving referrals and providing services through Licensed Mental Health Clinicians. Contact: 508-997-4893.
YWCA of Southeastern MA: Widowed Persons Program
The Widowed Person Program holds support groups and one-on-one emotional support for newly widowed elders going through the grieving process. Contact: 508-999-3255.
YWCA of Southeastern MA: GRANDparents Raising Grandchildren
Helps provide ongoing peer, personal, and professional support to empower grandparents to be successful in all aspects of raising grandchildren. Contact: 508-999-3255.
Respite
Fairhaven COA: Social Day Program
Provides respite and transportation for elders in Social Day Programs. Contact: 508-979-4029.
New Bedford COA: Social Day Program
Provides respite and transportation for elders in Social Day Programs. Contact: 508-961-3100.
Transportation
Compass Care Transportation: Weekend and Non-Medical Outings
Extends transportation access for older adults with social and cultural activity transportation during the week and on weekends where other transportation options are limited. Contact 774-520-2500.
Dartmouth Council on Aging: Medical & Social Transportation
Provides transportation services to Dartmouth residents for medical appointments, shopping trips and other excursions. Contact: 508-999-4717.
Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe: The Time of Those Who Are Revered
Provides social and medical transportation to tribal and on-occasion non-tribal elders and community groups that help to support a wide range of tribal programs and services. Contact: 508-477-0208.
New Bedford Council on Aging: Medical & Social Transportation
Provides transportation services to New Bedford residents for medical appointments, shopping trips and other excursions. Contact 508-991-6251.
Other Programs
Coastal Foodshed: HIP Delivery Program
Provides increased access and accessibility to older adult SNAP recipients by connecting with local food providers, and delivering fresh, nutritious food and produce to participants. Contact: 508-259-2647.
Coastal Neighbors Network: Scholarships for Services to Elders in Need
The program offers a variety of services, such as transportation, minor home modifications/repairs, grocery delivery, and social connections, coordinated by staff and provided by volunteers. Contact: 508-556-4004.
Habitat for Humanity: Ramps to Enable Low-Income Older Adults to Age in Place
The program will help provide handicap-accessibility ramps to older adults to enable them to age in-place at home, within their community. This program also accepts ramp donations and volunteers. Contact: 508-758-4517.
Immigrant’s Assistance Center: Non -English-Speaking Elders & Caregiver Program
Provides non-English speaking older adults and their caregivers with case management and outreach to link them to community programs for assistance, including translation. Contact 508-996-8113.
PACE: Fuel Assistance
PACE provides fuel assistance to older adults in emergency situations, either because they have no fuel or they are facing utility termination. Contact 508-999-9920.
Coastline and many of its programs are funded through contracts from the Commonwealth’s Executive Office of Aging & Independence, through the Administration on Community Living, and the Older Americans Act. Program attendees are able to make voluntary and confidential donations to any Title-III program; however, no one will be denied a service if they choose not to donate.
No services will be denied to any person based on the basis of age, ethnicity, race, gender, orientation, disability, etc. Individuals who are dissatisfied with or have been denied a service, may file a written complaint with Coastline within 21 days by calling 508-999-6400, Ext.161 to file a grievance.