DFSS is currently seeking Respondents from non-profit, for-profit, faith based, and public agencies to provide onsite management, oversight and coordination of programmatic offerings at DFSS' Portage Park Senior Satellite Centers. DFSS staff at the existing satellite centers will be redeployed within DFSS. Successful applicants must fulfill the following programmatic responsibilities outlined below: Manage the day-to-day operations of the Satellite Center. Hire and retain personnel and provide opportunities to develop local leaders/volunteers to support the center and the community; Respond to the needs and interests of a diverse population of older adults from different cultural, generational and socioeconomic backgrounds, and with increasingly complex social and physical needs; Employ strategies to increase participation from older adults who do not regularly attend senior centers, including those whose language and culture may present a challenge to participation; Build upon neighborhood strengths and community assets including supporting DFSS' development of Village Interdependent Collaboratives (VICs) to identify, bring resources to and reintegrate isolated seniors back into their communities thereby reducing their risk and creating an infrastructure of community partners to build a safety net around older residents who are aging in place; Develop partnerships that leverage and fully utilize existing resources, and which are supported by diverse and sustainable funding streams as approved by DFSS; and Coordinate and encourage participation in evidence-based programs.
