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Telecare Providers
Phone Reassurance Providers and Funding Sources
State Of Mississippi
The following is a list of Mississippi private organizations or state agencies that provide grants and funding for community programs. Also, we have listed automated and volunteer based programs that we found in the state of Mississippi.
DSC provides a Telephone Reassurance phone system that automatically calls elderly residents ensuring their well-being, allowing them to remain in their homes longer (Aging In Place).
There are many communities that provide telephone reassurance programs (both volunteer based or automatic calling programs). These communities also refer to their programs as "Are You OK?"® and RUOK.*
Contact DSC to learn more about our automated phone systems. DSC welcomes the opportunity to discuss our telephone reassurance program and services. Also, if you are a Mississippi based community and/or organization that provides a Telephone Reassurance program and would like to be listed here, please feel free to contact us.
Mississippi Automated Phone Reassurance Providers
The following organizations provide Telecare programs for the elderly within their Mississippi communities. These programs are both automated or volunteer based community services.
Mississippi Volunteer RUOK Providers
- Faith in Action: Because Life Matters - Ridgeland, Mississippi (601) 898-1053 ext. 310
- South Delta Area Agency on Aging - Greenville, Mississippi (662) 378-3831
State Of Mississippi Potential Funding Resources
The following private and public groups are potential providers of funding for phone reassurance programs in Mississippi communities.
To obtain current information about specific Mississippi agencies and foundations that provide funding for phone reassurance commonly referred to by many community organizations as RUOK programs or Telephone Reassurance programs, please contact the respective grant provider listed below..
Note: DSC obtained the following names of foundations from public records. There is no assurance that these foundations provide funding for your specific telephone reassurance program or community notification system.
This information is provided to help you research funding for your project using community grants.
* Greater Oxford Lafayette Community Foundation
Mississippi Common Fund Trust
Vicksburg Hospital Medical Foundation
Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust
Walker Education Foundation
The Riley Foundation
Community Foundation of East Mississippi
Community Foundation of Greater Jackson
Feild Co-Operative Association, Inc.
The Gertrude C. Ford Foundation, Inc.
Charles Preston Winters Foundation
The Luckyday Foundation
Ergon Foundation, Inc.
Kidney Care, Inc.
Graeber Foundation
Phil Hardin Foundation
Mississippi Power Foundation, Inc.
The Community Foundation, Inc.
West Point Community Foundation
The Robert M. Hearin Foundation
Hope Foundation
Elizabeth M. Irby Foundation
Fourth Seed Foundation
Walker Foundation
The Carl and Virginia Day Trust
Selby and Richard McRae Foundation, Inc.
Lower Pearl River Valley Foundation
The Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation
BancorpSouth Foundation
Gulf Coast Community Foundation
Fountain Family Foundation
Homer Skelton Charitable Foundation
Mississippi Power Education Foundation, Inc.
H. F. McCarty, Jr. Family Foundation
William Robert Baird Charitable Trust
AmSouth Foundation
Eastgroup/Parkway Foundation, Inc.
The Armstrong Foundation
Peaster Foundation
Foundation for the Mid South
The Colom Foundation
* "Are You OK?"® and RUOK® are registered names of Northland Innovation Corporation. The terms "RUOK" and "Telephone Reassurance" are commonly used on many community websites that offer both automated and volunteer based telephone reassurance programs.
For a comparison with our CARE system, please visit our RUOK vs CARE web page.
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