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Telecare Providers
Phone Reassurance Providers and Funding Sources
State Of West Virginia
The following is a list of West Virginia 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 West Virginia.
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.
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 West Virginia based community and/or organization that provides a Telephone Reassurance program and would like to be listed here, please feel free to contact us.
West Virginia Automated RUOK Providers
The following organizations provide Telecare programs for the elderly within their West Virginia communities. These programs are both automated or volunteer based community services.
- Putnam County Sheriff's Office - Putnam County, West Virginia (304) 586-0256
West Virginia Volunteer Telephone Reassurance Providers
- FaithLink - West Virginia (304) 424-3457, Ext. 211
- In Touch & Concerned, Inc. - Monongalia County, West Virginia (304) 296-6109
- Grant County Commission on Aging Family Services - Petersburg, West Virginia (304) 257-1666
- Upshur County Senior Citizens Center - Buckhannon, West Virginia (304) 472-0528
- West Virginia University Council for Women’s Concerns - Morgantown, West Virginia (304) 293-5496
- Faith in Action Caregivers, Inc - Wheeling, West Virginia (304) 243-5420
- Faith in Action of the River Cities - Huntington, West Virginia (304) 697-1274
- Faith in Action of Greenbrier Valley - Lewisburg, West Virginia (304) 645-4196
- Compeer/Faith in Action - Morgantown, West Virginia (304) 296-6091 ext. 21
- FaithLink - Parkersburg, West Virginia (304) 424-3457 ext. 211
- Good Shepherd Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers - Shepherdstown, West Virginia (304) 876-3325
State Of West Virginia Potential Funding Resources
The following private and public groups are potential providers of funding for phone reassurance programs in West Virginia communities.
To obtain current information about specific West Virginia 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.
* The United Way
Lyell B. & Patricia K. Clay Foundation
The Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley, Inc.
George M. Cruise Charitable Foundation
The Nutting Foundation The Erickson Foundation
BB&T West Virginia Foundation
Katharine B. Tierney Charitable Foundation
Sarah & Pauline Maier Foundation, Inc.
The Huntington Foundation, Inc.
Parkersburg Area Community Foundation
The Berkeley Minor and Susan F. Minor Foundation
Ethel N. Bowen Foundation
One Foundation
Board of Trustees of the Prichard School
The McGee Foundation
Bernard H. & Blanche E. Jacobson Foundation
Stamp Charitable Fund
O. J. Stout Scholarship Fund
Adolph & Edith Harries and Eleanor Tippens Scholarship Trust
The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation
Vecellio Family Foundation, Inc.
Hugh I. Shott, Jr. Foundation
August J. & Thelma S. Hoffmann Foundation
Bernard McDonough Foundation, Inc
George W. Bowers Family Charitable Trust
Clay Foundation, Inc.
Bloch Fund
The James H. and Alice Teubert Charitable Trust
The H. P. and Anne S. Hunnicutt Foundation, Inc.
Beckley Area Foundation, Inc.
Hazel Ruby McQuain Charitable Trust
Hollowell Foundation, Inc.
The Daywood Foundation, Inc.
Charles E. Hendrixson, Jr. Charitable Trust
The Mylan Charitable Foundation
James B. Chambers Memorial
Carter Family Foundation
Robert W. McCormick Scholarship Fund
George A. Laughlin Trust
* "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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