DTE WILL HOLD A ONE DAY SESSION FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO NEED HELP PAYING THEIR MONTHLY
DTE BILLS: PLEASE BRING ALL BILLS THAT ARE IN THE REARS.
DTE SESSIONS WILL BE HELD THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2012, 8AM TO 4PM AT THE
FOLLOWING LOCATIONS:
NEW PROSPECT MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH
6330 PEMBROOK @ LIVERNOIS
PERFECTING CHURCH
17950 VAN DYKE @ NEVADA
Please contact Customer Service at 800.477.4747
Forwarded by Midtown Alliance
And by Central District Police/Community Relations Council
Per Leslie Malcolmson
DWSD WARNS OF UTILITY BILL PAYMENT SCAM
The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) is warning its customers to be alert to a bill payment scam that is affecting utility customers across the country. The scammers are claiming that President Obama will pay customers’ utility bills through a new federal program. That claim is false, and fraudulent.
According to the Better Business Bureau, utility customers have been contacted in person, through fliers, through social media, and via text messages with claims that President Obama can provide credits or apply payments to their bills. The scammers then direct the customers to send their Social Security and bank routing numbers. In return, customers are given a false bank routing number that will supposedly pay their utility bills.
In truth, there is no money in the “program,” and customers believe they’ve paid their bills, when in fact, they have not.
DWSD has posted an alert on its website at www.dwsd.org, urging customers not to participate in the scam. Moreover, DWSD officials advise customers not to provide any personal, confidential information to people who claim to be affiliated with a presidential program that pays utility bills. Customers also should keep records of payment verification, and should never assume a pending payment has been accepted until the payment is verified with the customer account number.
For more information on the utility bill payment scam, visit the Better Business Bureau’s website at www.bbb.org/us/article/president-obama-is-not-offering-to-pay-your-utility-bills-34928.
DWSD supplies high-quality drinking water to Detroit and 126 other communities in southeast Michigan. The Department provides wastewater services to Detroit and 76 other southeast Michigan communities.
Forwarded by Midtown Alliance
And by Central District Police/Community Relations Council
Per Leslie Malcolmson
Attached is an article on the new Rivertown Neighborhood that is currently being constructed. Phase One is anticipated to open in January, 2013.
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20120819/FREE01/308199992/riverfront-retirement
Attached you will find the link to the National PACE website. There you can look at all of the services provided by PACE plus all of the national PACE sites. PACE already exists in the Detroit area (Center for Senior Independence (CSI), 7800 W. Outer Drive, Detroit, MI 48235) with areas extending out to zip codes in Highland Park, Grosse Pointes, Hamtramck, Lincoln Park, Redford, and Dearborn Heights. In January 2013, the Detroit PACE site will be opening a second center on the eastside at the Rivertown Neighborhood (see SCoop post on Rivertown Neighborhood). UMRC is looking to open a new PACE site which their catchement area will bump up to the current catchement area of CSI in Wayne County and cover the whole downriver community, including Belleville. This is expected to occur within the next year or so. In addition, there is a PACE site currently open in Battle Creek, MI, with their second site set to open in Kalamazoo in early 2013. This is a wonderful opportunity for those seniors committed to aging in place!
The website is: www.npaonline.org
Roberta Habowski from AAA1-b is a very good presenter. She presented at Madison Heights Co-op and was very patient and informative. This is a senior and disability ride referral program.
If you would like an additional online tool to calculate “180 days” from the initial date of signature on the consent forms, the website below works great! There are quite a few out there, but this one has worked best for me.
http://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/time/date-day.php
Hope this helps!
Please accept this invitiation to view the AASC Webinar:
Older Bullies and the Bullied: Learning How to Intervene and Prevent this Hostile Relationship
For your convenience, the Webinar will be hosted at Hazel Park Manor from 2 – 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14.
Please note that you will not recieve CEUs for attending this Webinar — this is for information purposes only.
Hazel Park Manor is located at 701 E. Woodward Heights, Hazel Park, MI, 48030.
RSVP to Alexa Lempert at alempert@hannan.org or to Renee Saunders at rsaunders@hannan.org.
Bullying Blog located at http://www.mybetternursinghome.com/senior-bullying-guest-post-by-robin-bonifas-phd-msw-and-marsha-frankel-licsw/
Found on AASC LinkedIn Discussion.
What is Bullying?
By Robin Bonifas, PhD, MSW, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ and Marsha Frankel, LICSW, Clinical Director of Senior Services, Jewish Family & Children’s Services, Boston, MA
Bullying, defined as intentional repetitive aggressive behavior involving an imbalance of power or strength (Hazelden Foundation, 2008), has been recognized for many years as a problem among children and youth in school systems. Recently “senior bullying” has also been noted to occur among older adults in many senior housing and senior care organizations, such as adult day health programs and assisted living facilities. What does bullying look like among the older generation? Surprisingly, in many ways it looks similar to bullying among younger age groups! For example, it includes verbal, physical or antisocial behaviors that occur in the context of social relationships, and, like youths, victims of senior bullying experience considerable emotional distress. Here are some specifics:
Verbal bullying involves name calling, teasing, hurling insults, taunting, threatening, or making sarcastic remarks or pointed jokes. For example, Mary was overheard at a Senior Center luncheon saying to Grace, “You don’t know what you’re talking about. Everyone knows you’re crazy!” Physical bullying involves pushing, hitting, destroying property, or stealing. For instance, two residents in independent senior housing got into an argument over control of the remote control in the community room. One punched the other in the face. This was not the first time these two men exchanged words, but the first time it escalated to a physical assault. Antisocial bullying includes shunning, excluding or ignoring, gossiping, spreading rumors, and using negative non-verbal body language. Such non-verbal bullying includes mimicking someone’s walk or disability, making offensive gestures or facial expressions, turning one’s head or body away when the victim speaks, using threatening body language, or encroaching on personal space. For example, John was relocated to senior housing in Massachusetts following the loss of his home in the New Orleans hurricane. Several residents began spreading rumors that he was a longtime homeless man and was the first in a deluge of formerly homeless people who were going to be “dumped” into their building. As a result, other residents began to avoid John.
Contrary to the childhood adage “sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me,” individuals who are bullied are significantly impacted by their peers’ negative behavior. Common responses include (Frankel, 2011):
The situation and type of behavior often determines whether or not problematic behavior is actually bullying. An individual who yells and strikes out at everyone is not necessarily a bully; similarly, behavior may be inappropriate and violate community rules, but not truly be bullying because the dynamics of power and control are absent. It is important to keep in mind that some people exhibit verbal or physical aggression when they are frustrated or upset as a way of communicating their feelings rather than to usurp others’ power. The potential for this situation increases in the context of dementia, due to impulse control problems, communication difficulties, frustration regarding impaired task performance, and misperceptions of potential environmental threats.
At the same time, although some problematic behaviors may not meet the academic definition of bullying, such behaviors can still feel to those on the receiving end as if they were being bullied. For example, residents in assisted living report the following peer behaviors to cause the most emotional distress (Bonifas, 2011):
While only behaviors 2, 3, 6, and 8 really qualify as bullying, residents react or respond to such behaviors in the following comparable ways:
The similar reactions to both bullying and “bullying-like” behaviors implies that to understand bullying among older adults, it is necessary to develop knowledge about the individuals who exhibit bullying behaviors and individuals who are bullied. Our next blog will address this critical issue.
Robin Bonifas, PhD, MSW
Marsha Frankel, LICSW
