SENIOR PEER COUNSELING

The Senior Peer Counseling Program is designed to meet the individual needs of our communitys' older population. It offers supportive counseling to seniors enabling them to make choices and changes for personal growth.

If I Talk with you, will you hear?
If you hear, are you listening?
If you are listening, will you understand and care?
WE CARE!

Senior Volunteers are trained by professionals to counsel seniors in a self-help approach that enriches and enhances their lives. Their training, combined with similar life experience, enables counselors to help their peers cope with a range of common concerns.

Each of our trained counselors has been specifically chosen for his or her personal warmth and non-judgmental qualities, as well as varied life experiences. Each works on a voluntary basis, receiving close supervision and continuing in-service education provided by El Dorado County Mental Health Department.

Services Include

• Individual counseling
• In-Home counseling
• Community Education

Eligibility Requirements

• 55 years of age or older
• Resident of El Dorado County

Cost

Services are offered without charge. Clients who are able are encouraged to make tax-deductable contributions. The program is supported by the Area Agency on Aging.

For information please call (530) 621-6304