NY Project Hope  Emotional Support Helpline: 1-844-863-9314
NY Project Hope is the statewide crisis counseling response to COVID-19. Helpline callers can reach a trained crisis counselor seven days a week from 8am to 10pm. The calls are free, confidential, and anonymous. New Yorkers can also visit NY Project Hope’s website  to find resources, strategies, and tips to help cope during COVID.  NY Project Hope is a program of the NYS Office of Mental Health and is funded by FEMA.

Please join us for these upcoming Zoom Meetings. RSVP here and list the classes in which you’d like to participate, unless otherwise noted. If you are registering for more than one program online, you need to do separate transactions in order to get the correct class codes. If you don’t see your class on the registration page, check back in a few days as we are working hard to get all our programs listed. Thank you for your patience.

Mondays, 10:30 am
Small Talk with Gloria

Tuesday, 12:30 pm
T’ai Chi For Parkinson’s
Fee: $8; Members, Free 
Both members and non-members register here
Sponsored by Goidel Law Group

Tuesdays, 1:30 pm
T’ai Chi for ESP Participants
Daily Fee: $45
Both members and non-members register here
Sponsored by Goidel Law Group

Wednesdays, 11 am | 1:30 pm | 4 pm
Senior Adult Day Care (SADC)
11 am: Music and Sing Along 
1:30 pm: Chair Yoga with Sandye Pinz, which will provide a head to toe workout to improve balance and mood.  
4 pm: Fun at Four 
Daily Fee: $45
Both members and non-members register here

Thursdays, 10:30-11:30 am | 1:30-2:15 pm
Virtual Early Stage Program (ESP) 
10:30 am: This program is for those newly diagnosed with memory impairment and who are aware of their diagnosis. Each day will offer a morning and afternoon session and will include an hour of Music Therapy with Diana Abourafeh, MS, MT-BC from the Rebecca Center for Music Therapy at Molloy College. 
1:30 pm: Stacy Miller Personal Trainer will lead a 45-minute chair-based exercise session  designed to improve right-left brain coordination, balance, self-esteem and maintain cognitive function.
Daily Fee: $45
Both members and non-members register here

Thursdays, 12:30 pm
Boxing for Parkinson’s with Maria Campanella
Fee: $8; Members, Free 
Both members and non-members register here

Fridays, 10:30 am-12 pm
Caregivers Support Group 
Provides free caregiver support to those caring for their loved ones living with Alzheimers Disease and other related dementias and other chronic illnesses. Funded in part by the New York State Office for the Aging.
Fee: Free & open to the community

Fridays, 12:30 pm
Boxing for Parkinson’s with Maria Campanella
Fee: $8; Members, Free 
Both members and non-members register here

HOW TO DOWNLOAD ZOOM

• Download the app onto your computer or phone and follow instructions
• For desktop go to https://zoom.us/
• To sign up for account click sign up for an account click “Sign Up”
• Enter your email address.
• You will get an email confirming your signup. Click on that email to verify your account.
• Enter your information to create account.

Parkinson’s Webinar with Dr. Adena Leder, NYIT
Medication, Nutrition and Exercise During the Time of COVID-19. Please click here for the Zoom recording 

Senior Adult Day Services Newsletter

Volume 1 – Click here 
Volume 2 – Click here  

Safeguard Your Health with a Self-Care Checklist here

Our SOCIAL SERVICES department is here for you. Anyone who is struggling and needs support, direction, resources for themselves or even for family members living afar, please contact Gloria at 516-634-4010 or glebeaux@friedbergjcc.org. If you are feeling isolated and want a regular phone call, the JCC can make this happen. 

Our PARKINSON’S AND ALZHEIMER’S PROGRAMS (SADC, ESP) are staying in touch with all of our families to check on both our program participants and their care partners. Information, articles, activities and links to virtual specialized exercise programs are being emailed regularly. Please contact Pam Jaffe at pjaffe@friedbergjcc.org for additional information.

Click here for a Chair Exercise with Jackie Ruiz YouTube Video
A full body workout for those living with cognitive impairment. Download disclaimer here

Ways for Families to Get Help:

Hotline:  Long Island Crisis. Call 24/7: 516-679-1111

Warmline: this new line welcomes calls from parents, caregivers,and educators of babies and young children, ages 0-6 who have non emergency questions about child adjustment, development, activities and how to talk to young children about all the recent changes. Leave a message at 516-515-1948 and you will receive a return call on Monday or Thursday afternoons between noon and 5 pm

Telehealth: Individual therapists may be offering sessions virtually thru North Shore Family and Child Guidance in Roslyn for children and adolescents to age 23. Call 516-626-1971.

Links & Articles

When Dementia Meets the Coronavirus Crisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/well/family/coronavirus-dementia-patients-caregivers.html?referringSource=articleShare

CN Guidance and Counseling Services

What to Do During (Unexpected) Life at Home | You Need A Budget

Sanity Tips for Sheltering in Place

Coronavirus and Seniors: What You Need to Know – DailyCaring

How to Avoid Passing Anxiety on to Your Kids

That Discomfort You’re Feeling is Grief

Seven Tips for Handling Isolation During the Pandemic | Psychology Today

Helpful hints for managing your anxiety during this time:

• Take control of your immediate environment by maintaining handwashing (sing two rounds of happy birthday to make sure hands are truly clean) and keep home environment sanitized.

• Listen to your body-see where you are holding your anxiety.  Is your heart racing? Do you feel it in your stomach? Are you nauseous? Do you have headaches? Use calming techniques like journalling, listening to music, singing, physical exercise outside like walking, jogging, bike riding, meditation and mindfulness.

• Create a structure for your day. This is especially true for your children.  This does not just mean remote teaching but also fun activities, family time, outside play; structure is important but so is flexibility and laughter.

• Know what works for you and your family.  Understand everybody’s way of coping is different.  Allow each other to have space and navigate what they need for themselves.  Spouses will each handle this differently. Children will each handle their emotions uniquely.

• Keep yourself healthy   Eat well. Get enough sleep.  Manage the amount of news media that you watch because it will just increase worry.

• Help other people.  Check in on a neighbor via videochat, ring their bell and maintain 6 feet between you; take care of the people around you.  Get out of your own heads and focus on others. For young children, give them a stuffed animal to take care of.

• Finally, look for positive moments and laughing.  Find good moments and enjoy them.

Additional Resources


These Breathing and Meditation recordings can help ease your stress during this time.

Please click here for a letter from our Director of Social Social Services on Managing Your Children’s Stress During This Time.

Movement Disorders and COVID-19

For those who are struggling with the challenges of Parkinson’s Disease, along with their care partners, please listen to this important discussion by two esteemed movement disorder specialists from Mt. Sinai, Dr. Brian Kopell, Movement Disorders Neurosurgeon, and Dr. Fiona Gupta, Movement Disorders Neurologist. Listen here.

Thank you to The Bristal Assisted Living,  Jerusalem Memorial Chapels, the Goidel Law Group, Esplanade of Woodmere and Assisted Living Locators for their support of our Friedberg #VirtualJCC!