About Senior Resource Connection
Board of Directors
Senior Staff Directory
Our leadership team works hard to ensure our employees have the guidance, training and tools needed to deliver the best possible services to the clients we serve.
Our agency serves primarily low to middle income elderly (60 and over) and adults with special needs. The median age of our clients is 72 with 53% being female and 61% living alone. Of those clients, 66% are Caucasian, 32% African American and 2% other. While we serve nine counties, 73% of our clients live in Montgomery County with the majority living in the City of Dayton.
COVID-19 Information
IRS Form 990
Our History
Covid-19 delivery practices
It is the practice of SRC to deliver meals during the pandemic providing safety for the staff as well as the client. All signing and paperwork going back and forth to the building has ceased. Drivers have been provided masks, gloves and hand sanitizer. All drivers wearing their masks are to hang meals on the door, mailbox, set on chair etc. knock or ring and step back 6 feet to observe the client getting their meal. After 5 minutes if the client has not retrieved the meals the driver is to take meals, mark NA and continue. The driver must not leave meals at any time, not even to deliver next door. There are no exceptions to this.
Any client reported as possibly exposed or actually diagnosed with Covid-19 will be treated in the same manor. The office will in writing give Mary Washington a note with client name, route number, and report status. Mary will speak to the driver one on one and reiterate safety practices be strictly followed with client.
These safety measures are in place to protect YOU, your family and your coworkers. Any driver who is caught handing meals to anyone, going into a client’s home or breaching any of the above mentioned practices will face disciplinary action.
Senior Resource Connection is required to annually file an IRS Form 990. To view copies of our recent returns, please visit our profile on Guidestar.
Since our beginning in 1956, our mission has been to collaborate with community resources and provide services that support seniors, adults with special needs, and their caregivers to maintain quality independent lives. More simply put, our mission is to enable them to live at home where they are comfortable and happy for as long as safely possible. Over the past 60+ years, our organization has grown from a senior citizen's center into a multi-program community-based service agency that serves not only Montgomery County but the Greater Miami Valley and beyond. On an annual basis, our organization serves well over 15,000 individuals and addresses issues that make seniors especially vulnerable such as nutrition, safety, personal needs, mental health and social well-being. Our “cluster of services” benefits our clients and their caregivers as well as case managers because using one provider simplifies care coordination efforts. Oftentimes, navigating the system to initiate necessary services in the home can be confusing and exasperating. Our agency has the ability to offer all of these services “under one roof” and with one point of contact which greatly minimizes the amount of time spent with frustrating day-to-day communication and care coordination issues as well as addressing problems and concerns in a timely manner.
Cindy Fitzwater MBA
President
937-223-8246 ext 201
Answering the Call
The Senior Citizens Center of the Greater Dayton Area opened in 1956 at a donated storefront at 210 South Main Street in Dayton with a Director and two part-time assistants. Seniors now had a place with opportunities for fun activities and constructive use of leisure time, a centralized place for public education and training on aging, and a hub to find referrals to community resources. Eleven seniors joined on the day the doors opened and eighteen months later there were 430 members.
In 1969, the organization settled into the specially designed building at 105 S. Wilkinson Street, designed by Levin & Porter Architects, and continued as a senior citizen's center. When it became obvious there was a significant need for home-based services in Dayton and surrounding areas, we adapted to meet the needs of home-bound seniors with great social and economic need. In 1996, our name was officially changed to Senior Resource Connection. As our services continued to expand, more centralized office space was needed. In 2005, we purchased a 2-story building at 222 Salem Avenue to house administrative services along with many programs such as Representative Payee, Case Management, Protective Services, Visiting Home Care, Care Coordination, Caregiver Support, Medication Dispensers and Emergency Response. Our Nutrition programs, Meals on Wheels and Congregate Dining, remained at the Wilkinson building and continue operations from there still today.
We continue to serve approximately 15,000 seniors, special needs adults, and their caregivers each year.
COVID-19 Policy
During the COVID-19 pandemic Senior Resource Connection has implemented the following policy and procedures to benefit the health and safety of all of our employees and clients.
Workplace Safety:
- More frequent and thorough cleaning and sanitizing of workspaces.
- Access to hand sanitizer throughout the workplace.
- New limits on the number of people allowed to gather in rooms, conference rooms, and communal areas at one time (no more than 10 people currently).
- Wash your hands often, and for the recommended 20 seconds.
- Stay at least 6 feet apart when moving through the workplace or in the presence of clients.
- Employees must wear a face mask or cloth face covering in the workplace where social distancing cannot be maintained and when providing services to clients.
- All client facing employees must wear a mask at all times with interacting with clients.
- If employees are alone in an office or at your desk (where you are 6 feet away from other employees) you do not have to wear a mask.
- Masks may be removed while eating or drinking.
- Be considerate of your co-workers (remember, we’re all in this together).
- Call, email, message, or video conference as much as possible rather than meet face to face.
- Employees must self-monitor their health by checking their temperatures daily before reporting to work.
- If an employee has a fever of 100.4 or higher they may not report to work and are instructed to seek medical attention.
- If there is a confirmed positive case of COVID-19 employees and clients that were in contact with the infected individual will be contacted.
- Names and other details will not be disclosed due to HIPAA and PHI regulations.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, seniors and special needs adults have been especially vulnerable to falling ill and even possible death. Senior Resource Connection employees have gone above and beyond to keep this population sheltered in place and safe. Our services include nutrition, home health, case management, personal finance, and emergency response geared toward those living in community based housing. Since the pandemic started, the number of enrollees for our services, especially Meals on Wheels, has doubled. When we temporarily discontinued our congregate dining program due to the coronavirus outbreak, we had to redirect hundreds of participants to frozen meals which further burdened our resources. It took a lot of dedication, skill sets, extra hours and hard work to meet this uptick in demand. At our Downtown Dayton facility, a second shift in the kitchen was created to increase meal production, some delivery drivers have nearly doubled the amount of stops on their routes, and intake workers have been working feverishly to process new enrollments. Meanwhile, employees at our Salem location have gotten creative as well. To ensure social distancing, our case managers and nurses are delivering services remotely as much as possible. Our representative payees and schedulers along with other administrative staff have minimized traffic into the building for the time being. While this is not our preferred way of conducting business, it certainly helps keep our staff and clients safer for now. Our home health aides, who have direct contact with clients, are being extra cautious to protect our clients and themselves from possible infection. This requires a lot of sanitizing supplies and personal protection equipment, but through the diligence and foresight of those doing the ordering, we have been able to maintain adequate supply levels. Our front line employees, as well as those working behind the scenes, are the real heroes in the lives of local seniors and we appreciate all their extra effort during this unprecedented time. Thank you!!
Sharon Howard
Director of Nutrition
Meals on Wheels
937-228-3663 ext 116
Our Mission
Provide a helping hand to our aging population so they can remain at home where they are comfortable and content for as long as safely possible. Our focus is to deliver quality in-home services, information and advocacy to encourage independent living.
Presidents
Chuck Komp
2012-2023
Sharon Minturn
1990-2012
Charlotte McQuire
1987-1990
Margaret P. Lloyd
1956-1987
Our Employees Have Heart!
Our Vision
Positively impact the aging experience through compassionate community based services, collaboration with other agencies, and dependable coordination of care.
Tiffany Suber
Congregate Dining Supervisor
937-228-3663 ext 137
Board Chair
Rachel Gut
Deputy Executive Director
Dayton Metro Library
Board member since 2012
Board Vice Chair
Anthony Evans
President, Pure Healthcare
Executive Vice President, Ohio's Hospice
Board member since 2014
Board Secretary
Bert VanderSchaaff
Partner/Attorney
Esler & VanderSchaaff Co., L.P.A.
Board member since 2023
Board Treasurer
Rev. Dr. Candy Hardy
Pastor/Itinerant Elder
Christ our Redeemer AMEC
Board member since 2022
Frank Scott
Vice President/Senior Investment Advisor
PNC Wealth Management
Board member since 1995
Denise Swick
President/Broker
Swick Real Estate Group
Board member since 2022
Vel Hux
CEO
Vel Hux Solutions LLC
Board member since 2023
Mark Corcoran MD
Primary Care Physician (retired)
Veteran's Administration
Board member since 2024
Rhonda Minniefield, BS/CIS
Administration Manager
Nutrition Services
937-228-3663 ext 119
Kelly Corcoran, RN
Director, Visiting Home Care
937-223-8246 ext 240
Judy Ellis
Lifeline Coordinator
Emergency Response 24/7
937-223-8246 ext 213
Tammy Kreitzer
Director of Payee Services
Representative Payee Program
937-223-8246 ext 233
Katie Leger, MS
Director of Social Services
(Case Managment & Protective Services)
937-223-8246 ext 221
Candace Lee, PHR
Director, Human Resources
937-223-8246 ext 215