The WCA Home was proud to host a six-week class presented by the Chautauqua County Office for the Aging. The WCA Home provided respite care for the loved ones during the class so that the caregivers could benefit from the information presented. It is such an important topic! If anyone is interested in attending future presentations on this topic, please contact the Chautauqua County Office for the Aging in Mayville, NY at (716) 753-4726.

Powerful Tools for Caregivers is an educational program developed to provide family caregivers with tools to better manage caregiving duties, reduce stress, and increase well-being. PTC is based on the highly effective Chronic Disease Self- Management Program developed by Kate Loring and her colleagues at Sanford University. The program runs once a week for six weeks and each class is approximately 2.5 hours. The program has a positive impact on caregivers; it has helped caregivers improve health and wellness, increase ability to handle stress and increased participant knowledge of community resources

For Grandparents Day in March, some of our residents went to school 7 in Dunkirk as adoptive grandmothers. It was a fun morning for the ladies and the kids were great! Thank you to Barb Jones, Activity Director, for keeping our residents involved in the community.

We had such a fun Easter here!  There was a visit from the Easter Bunny, an egg hunt in the front parlors and a delicious Easter meal prepared and donated by Nettie Puleff.  Mother Nature contributed some pretty nice weather too!

Congratulations to our April Resident of the month, Helen Szymanski, and our Employee of the month, Lindsey Falco!  You are both important members of our WCA Home family!!