Causes: Human Services, Residential Care & Adult Day Programs
Mission: Mission:to provide safe, caring and exceptional adult day care and health rehabilitation services. These services will offer meaningful, individually tailored programs and care designed to enhance the dignity, independence, joy and quality of life of older persons, younger adults with disabilities, provide support and respite for their families and caregivers and serve as an informational resource for our communitiesvision:to provide care options for individuals and families facing the challenges of aging and or disability
Programs: Services: building we continue to raise funds to address the lower level of the building to create a larger activity area for our participants and allow the entire building to be utilized in the event of a local emergency. The dr. Richard a. Sleeman center is pleased to be designated as a red cross shelter for bennington county adult day service personnelhaving the right staff is critical to the success of our adult day program. Families entrust the care of their loved ones to bennington project independence every day. Our staff tend to become an extension of family for many of our participants and their family caregivers. Bpi's staff includes and executive director who is qualified as an activity consultant; certified and masters level expressive arts therapist; an administrative coordinator who is also our webmaster, a membership coordinator, a licensed marriage and family counselor and certified art therapist; an activity coordinator who is a certified activity director and personal trainer; activity assistants, licensed nursing assistants, licensed practical nurses, a registered nurse, van drivers, a nutrition manager and cook, a part-time facilities manager, a part-time housekeeper and part-time development specialist. Our staff is supplemented by assistance from a consulting bookkeeper, a certified public accountant, a music therapist and a yoga therapist. In 2012-2013, bpi had over 319 volunteers who donated countless hours of service to our participants and our program. Bpi takes pride in its excellent staff-to-participant ratio and the personalization of all aspects of care and service. With our new, expanded adult day care and day health rehabilitation facility, bpi's staffing needs have also increased. This has created more jobs for the local economy. We knew that with the facility expansion our personnel budget would need to increase also. Bpi has historically had an excellent history of long term staff retention. Multiple staff members have been with bpi 20 years or more. Staff are not just hired, they are added to our "bpi family" it generally takes about a year to truly learn the intricacies of the job and the philosophic operation of our organization. All of our staff members are extremely caring, dedicated professionals who are cross trained to provide the utmost in flexibility and service provision for our participants and their families. With the new building as a substantial resource and with its professional and compassionate staff, bennington project independence continues its proud tradition of helping families share the care.
health services: kitchensin designing our new adult day center, the provision of fresh, high quality meals for our participants was paramount. Many of our participants are no longer able to prepare their own meals and have nutritional issues that can affect their health. The food we serve for lunch at bpi may be the only well-balanced meal some of our participants have each day. Bpi has a full-featured, modern commercial kitchen. We received design recommendations from several accomplished local chefs and restauranteurs. The result is an efficient and modern kitchen capable of feeding not only our participants but of serving several hundreds of people should our facility ever need to be used as an emergency shelter for our community. Bpi has an amazing nutrition manager who understands the unique dietary needs of older persons and younger adults with disabilities. She is committed to making well balanced, nutritious, home-cooked meals and healthy snacks. She works closely with our activity program to ensure that our meals dovetail with the activity themes of the day. They complement each other beautifully and provide a flavorful addition. Besides the full commercial kitchen, bpi included a full residential-style kitchen that is completely handicapped accessible. The counters and sink can accommodate participants in wheelchairs. An induction cooktop was included to ensure the utmost in participant and staff safety in cooking. The country kitchen was designed to promote independence and safety. Our participants enjoy relearning or polishing up their cooking skills. Our homey country kitchen is a delightful place for our participants to relish the joys of home cooking and a place to share family memories and recipes. Having our own kitchen has been an incredibly positive addition to the services and comprehensive care that we are able to provide for our participants. Bpi is a congregate meals site where the public can make a reservation to enjoy lunch at the richard a. Sleeman center. Exercise the exercise program at bennington project independence is part of a larger initiative to ensure that bennington project independence is a resource for the entire community. This can be seen in the strength and balance class that is a free fitness class for the community conducted weekly at the dr. Richard a. Sleeman center. Though the original focus was for persons with parkinson's disease, it has evolved into a popular option and enhancement to bone builders classes for adults in the community.
transportation:a major factor in the success of bpi's adult day program is the ability to provide our own personalized door-through-door transportation for our participants and families utilizing our own handicapped accessible vehicles. Our small fleet of three lift-equipped vehicles allows our expert transportation staff to be flexibly responsive to ever-changing participant, family caregiver and in-home service provider needs and schedules. Our highly trained drivers are sensitive to the needs of older and/or disabled persons. They are trained in passenger assistance, cpr and first aid. They provide a vital, personal connection between family caregivers and bpi. Our vehicles provide service for participants and families in the greater bennington and southshire area. We work with the local public transit provider, the green mountain express (gmc), to facilitate transportation for participants and families in the northshire area. This collaboration provides a hybrid of public and private service to ensure that everyone has access to safe and reliable transportation to and from our adult day program.
Mission: Mission:to provide safe, caring and exceptional adult day care and health rehabilitation services. These services will offer meaningful, individually tailored programs and care designed to enhance the dignity, independence, joy and quality of life of older persons, younger adults with disabilities, provide support and respite for their families and caregivers and serve as an informational resource for our communitiesvision:to provide care options for individuals and families facing the challenges of aging and or disability
Programs: Services: building we continue to raise funds to address the lower level of the building to create a larger activity area for our participants and allow the entire building to be utilized in the event of a local emergency. The dr. Richard a. Sleeman center is pleased to be designated as a red cross shelter for bennington county adult day service personnelhaving the right staff is critical to the success of our adult day program. Families entrust the care of their loved ones to bennington project independence every day. Our staff tend to become an extension of family for many of our participants and their family caregivers. Bpi's staff includes and executive director who is qualified as an activity consultant; certified and masters level expressive arts therapist; an administrative coordinator who is also our webmaster, a membership coordinator, a licensed marriage and family counselor and certified art therapist; an activity coordinator who is a certified activity director and personal trainer; activity assistants, licensed nursing assistants, licensed practical nurses, a registered nurse, van drivers, a nutrition manager and cook, a part-time facilities manager, a part-time housekeeper and part-time development specialist. Our staff is supplemented by assistance from a consulting bookkeeper, a certified public accountant, a music therapist and a yoga therapist. In 2012-2013, bpi had over 319 volunteers who donated countless hours of service to our participants and our program. Bpi takes pride in its excellent staff-to-participant ratio and the personalization of all aspects of care and service. With our new, expanded adult day care and day health rehabilitation facility, bpi's staffing needs have also increased. This has created more jobs for the local economy. We knew that with the facility expansion our personnel budget would need to increase also. Bpi has historically had an excellent history of long term staff retention. Multiple staff members have been with bpi 20 years or more. Staff are not just hired, they are added to our "bpi family" it generally takes about a year to truly learn the intricacies of the job and the philosophic operation of our organization. All of our staff members are extremely caring, dedicated professionals who are cross trained to provide the utmost in flexibility and service provision for our participants and their families. With the new building as a substantial resource and with its professional and compassionate staff, bennington project independence continues its proud tradition of helping families share the care.
health services: kitchensin designing our new adult day center, the provision of fresh, high quality meals for our participants was paramount. Many of our participants are no longer able to prepare their own meals and have nutritional issues that can affect their health. The food we serve for lunch at bpi may be the only well-balanced meal some of our participants have each day. Bpi has a full-featured, modern commercial kitchen. We received design recommendations from several accomplished local chefs and restauranteurs. The result is an efficient and modern kitchen capable of feeding not only our participants but of serving several hundreds of people should our facility ever need to be used as an emergency shelter for our community. Bpi has an amazing nutrition manager who understands the unique dietary needs of older persons and younger adults with disabilities. She is committed to making well balanced, nutritious, home-cooked meals and healthy snacks. She works closely with our activity program to ensure that our meals dovetail with the activity themes of the day. They complement each other beautifully and provide a flavorful addition. Besides the full commercial kitchen, bpi included a full residential-style kitchen that is completely handicapped accessible. The counters and sink can accommodate participants in wheelchairs. An induction cooktop was included to ensure the utmost in participant and staff safety in cooking. The country kitchen was designed to promote independence and safety. Our participants enjoy relearning or polishing up their cooking skills. Our homey country kitchen is a delightful place for our participants to relish the joys of home cooking and a place to share family memories and recipes. Having our own kitchen has been an incredibly positive addition to the services and comprehensive care that we are able to provide for our participants. Bpi is a congregate meals site where the public can make a reservation to enjoy lunch at the richard a. Sleeman center. Exercise the exercise program at bennington project independence is part of a larger initiative to ensure that bennington project independence is a resource for the entire community. This can be seen in the strength and balance class that is a free fitness class for the community conducted weekly at the dr. Richard a. Sleeman center. Though the original focus was for persons with parkinson's disease, it has evolved into a popular option and enhancement to bone builders classes for adults in the community.
transportation:a major factor in the success of bpi's adult day program is the ability to provide our own personalized door-through-door transportation for our participants and families utilizing our own handicapped accessible vehicles. Our small fleet of three lift-equipped vehicles allows our expert transportation staff to be flexibly responsive to ever-changing participant, family caregiver and in-home service provider needs and schedules. Our highly trained drivers are sensitive to the needs of older and/or disabled persons. They are trained in passenger assistance, cpr and first aid. They provide a vital, personal connection between family caregivers and bpi. Our vehicles provide service for participants and families in the greater bennington and southshire area. We work with the local public transit provider, the green mountain express (gmc), to facilitate transportation for participants and families in the northshire area. This collaboration provides a hybrid of public and private service to ensure that everyone has access to safe and reliable transportation to and from our adult day program.
info@bpiads.org
614 Harwood Hill Road, Bennington, VT 05201
802-442-8136
Human Services
Bennington
