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Lutheran Foundation grants $70,000 to Josephine Adult Day Care Program

November 21, 2005. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Foundation has selected Josephine’s grant proposal to provide door-to-door transportation for their Adult Day program. The proposal requested funding for the purchase of a new bus and salary support over a three year period.

The grant proposal, asked the ELCA Foundation for a total of $70,000 from the Lutheran Services for the Elderly Endowment for the purchase of a 12 passenger wheelchair lift-equipped bus and to support the cost of a driver/attendant.

The bus will be used by the Adult Day program to provide transportation between the client’s home and Josephine’s facility. Lack of transportation to adult day services remains a critical barrier to adult day services in the north county areas.

Josephine is an intergenerational care community providing 160 beds in the skilled nursing facility, 57 assisted living units, and an adult day care program. Josephine also serves over 170 children and their families with an intergenerational child care center, an Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP is Washington State’s equivalent of the federal Head Start program), and a before- and after-school care program. Josephine also operates Care Team Ministry, a free program that helps churches and other civic organizations respond to the needs of home caregivers and homebound individuals.

The ELCA Foundation, headquartered in Chicago, supports the ministries of the ELCA. The grant to Josephine will be distributed over a three year period, enabling Josephine to purchase the bus in 2006, and then support a driver’s salary with additional grants in 2007 and 2008.

For more information about Josephine’s Adult Day program, please call Josephine at 360-629-2126.