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Telecare Providers
Phone Reassurance Providers and Funding Sources
State Of Pennsylvania
The following is a list of Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania.
DSC provides a Telephone Reassurance phone system that automatically calls elderly households checking to ensure they are OK. DSC also provides individual calling services for home alone children. To obtain information about this program and age limits of children for your state, visit the Pennsylvania latchkey kids age restrictions.
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 Pennsylvania based community and/or organization that provides a Telephone Reassurance program and would like to be listed here, please feel free to contact us.
Pennsylvania Automated Phone Reassurance Providers
The following organizations provide Telecare programs for the elderly within their Pennsylvania communities. These programs are both automated or volunteer based community services.
Pennsylvania Volunteer Phone Reassurance Providers
The following organizations provide volunteer programs for the elderly within their Pennsylvania communities.
- Retired and Senior Volunteer Program - Doylestown, Pennsylvania (215) 340-1210
- Faith in Action of Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania - Allentown, Pennsylvania (610) 435-8424
- Jefferson County Area Agency on Aging - Brookville, Pennsylvania (814) 849-3096
- Touch-A-Life, A Faith in Action Program - Chambersburg, Pennsylvania (717) 217-3508
- Bucks County Intermediate Unit - Doylestown, Pennsylvania (800) 770-4822
- Erie Health Ministries - Erie, Pennsylvania (814) 453-5072
- Love Inc. of Bedford County - Everett, Pennsylvania (814) 652-0025
- Faith in Action of Adams County - Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (717) 334-9296
- Faith in Action Outreach Program - Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (717) 233-1681
- Volunteers of America Greater Hazleton Area - Hazleton, Pennsylvania (570) 453-0426
- LINCSS - Hershey, Pennsylvania (717) 531-8177
- Indiana County CareNet - Indiana, Pennsylvania (724) 465-2865
- Laurel Area Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers - Latrobe, Pennsylvania (724) 539-4357
- FIA Project of Compeer of Lebanon County - Lebanon, Pennsylvania (717) 272-8317
- Allegheny Valley Association of Churches - Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania (724) 226-0606 ext. 14
- Common Bond Caregivers - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (215) 335-4416
- Faith in Action Outreach Program of Little Brothers - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (215) 765-8118
- Faith in Action - Hartwood - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (412) 784-5081
- Faith in Action in the Northwest Tier - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (412) 307-0069
- Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers of Southwestern PA - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (412) 687-6712
- North Hills Community Outreach - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (412) 307-0069
- Sewickley Faith in Action - Sewickley, Pennsylvania (412) 741-9622
- Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers of Fayette - Uniontown, Pennsylvania (724) 438-0709
- Washington County Faith in Action - Washington, Pennsylvania (724) 229-0785
- Deaf and Hard of Hearing Faith in Action Project - West Chester, Pennsylvania (610) 918-6250
- Faith in Action Program of Keystone Hospice - Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania (215) 836-2440 ext. 320
- Mental Health Association of York County - York, Pennsylvania (717) 843-6973
- OPEN Interfaith AIDS Ministry - York,, Pennsylvania (717) 846-6736
- Staying Connected, A Faith in Action Program - York, Pennsylvania (717) 843-5011
- Touch-A-Life - York, Pennsylvania (717) 854-4313
State Of Pennsylvania Potential Funding Resources
The following private and public groups are potential providers of funding for phone reassurance programs in Pennsylvania communities.
To obtain current information about specific Pennsylvania 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.
Peter P. Blanchard III Trust- Dendroica Foundation
R. P. Simmons Family Foundation
Sarah Scaife Foundation, Inc.
Oxford Foundation, Inc.
Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation
Heinz Family Foundation
The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands
The Greater Harrisburg Foundation
The PNC Foundation
Tecovas Foundation
Connelly Foundation
Henry L. Hillman Foundation
Grable Foundation
GlaxoSmithKline Foundation
E. Rhodes & Leona B. Carpenter Foundation
United States Steel Foundation, Inc.
Eden Hall Foundation
The RAF Foundation
The Lenfest Foundation, Inc.
Bayer Foundation
CIGNA Foundation
Mellon Financial Corporation Fund
Independence Foundation
Claneil Foundation, Inc.
Morris Slater RUOK Fund
Alcoa Foundation
Hansjoerg Wyss Medical Foundation
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Erie Community Foundation
The Annenberg Foundation
The Arcadia Foundation
Richard King Mellon Foundation
W.W. Smith Charitable Trust
The William Penn Foundation
Charles S. & Mary Coen Family Foundation
Howard Heinz Endowment
Dominion Foundation
The Sidney Kimmel Foundation
The Helen F. Whitaker Fund
The Pittsburgh Foundation
John R. McCune Charitable Trust
McCune Foundation
Hillman Foundation
Oberkotter Foundation
PPG Industries Foundation
Vira I. Heinz Endowment
The 1994 Charles Degenstein Foundation
John Templeton Foundation
Harry C. Trexler Trust
The Philadelphia Foundation The Carthage 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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