By Courtney Dentch
Jamaica Service Program for Older Adults is celebrating 30 years of helping senior citizens and others experience healthy, active and productive lives.
The Jamaica-based organization has become southeast Queens’ leading minority agency, assisting more than 5,000 seniors and about 15,000 others in their programs throughout southeast Queens.
JSPOA provides more than 13,000 Meals-on-Wheels to the elderly each month, adult day-care, counseling services, emergency assistance, home care, housekeeping, recreation, respite care, and transportation.
The organization also operates five senior centers in southeast Queens, including the Conlon Community Center, the Friendship Center for the Frail, the Rockaway Boulevard Senior Center, the South Jamaica Senior Center, and the Theodora G. Jackson Adult Center.
JSPOA was slated to hold a gala fund-raiser at Caffe on the Green in Bayside Thursday, where it hoped to raise about $10,000 for its programs, said JSPOA spokeswoman Lisa Coa’d-Curry.
