Available Services & Caregiver Resources

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Wilson County Family Caregiver Support Program

Kesha Atkinson, Aging Services Specialist

Phone: (252)265-5775
Email: katkinson@wilson-co.com

Located in the Wilson County Senior Activity Center
1808 South Goldsboro Street
Wilson, NC 27893

Available Services

Caregiver Support Group – 2nd Thursday of each month from 11:00 am to noon at the First Baptist Church located on Nash Street at Park Avenue in Wilson
Ensure Low Cost Nutritional Program for qualifying caregiver and care receivers Caregiver Program presentations to churches and organizations
Assistance to caregivers in gaining access to supportive services
Respite care assistance for qualifying caregivers
Benefits checkup assistance
Information and assistance in preparation of Advance Directives: Living Will and Health Care Power of Attorney
Caregiver Training: Powerful Tools for Caregiver course
Literature, pamphlets, books and web link information to fit individual caregiver needs Caregiver Video Library
Information and assistance for Grandparents 55 years old and older raising grandchildren 18 years old and younger

Local Caregiver Resources

Alzheimer’s NC, Inc. 1-800-228-8738
City of Wilson transportation 252-291-2850
HASTEN Help System (Health & Security Telephone Emergency Network) 1-800-582- 3073
Independent Living (Rocky Mount) 252-446-0867
Legal Aid of North Carolina (POC Gay Joyner) 252-442-0977
Life Line Eastern Monitoring (POC Kent Spencer) 252-237-2349
Long Term Care Ombudsman Program Area Agency on Aging (POC Abigail Harper 252-234-5963 or 1-877-344-2066)
Mental Health Association 252-243-2773
North Carolina AARP 1-866-389-5650
NC Division of Services for the Blind (POC Reginal McClain) 252-206-4041
NC Division of Services for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing (POC Karen Caputo) 252-243- 3104
Senior Community Service Employment Program – Area Agency on Aging 252-234- 5954
Seniors Health Insurance Information Program (SHIIP) 1-800-443-9354
Social Security Administration 252-291-5967
Volunteer Action Center (POC Judi Thurston) 252-237-7411
VRI Personal Response System (POC Gale Matthews) 252-904-6780 or 252-442-6780
WilMed Hospice 252-399-8924
Wilson County Department of Social Services Special Assistance In-Home Program (POC Michelle Parrish) 252-293-4330
Wilson County Senior Activitiy Center Foot Clinic (by Appointment/POC Ellen Reason) 252-290-2218
Wrights Senior Adult Day Care (Rocky Mount) 252-442-8363
Wilson County Transportation Service (POC David Murray) 252-399-2817
Wilson Crisis Center 252-237-5156
Wilson County Office of Senior Citizens Affairs (Home Delivered Means/POC Debbie Raper) 252-237-1303

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