JASA Announces Spring 2013 Semester of Institute for Senior Action

 



     

learn – then Act! JASA’s Institute for senior action

 accepting appliCations for SPRING 2013 semester

(New York, NY) January 3, 2013- JASA, New York’s largest agency serving older adults in the New York Metropolitan area, is kicking off its Spring 2013 semester of the Institute for Senior Action (IFSA) on Wednesday, February 27^th, 2013.

The ten-week leadership and advocacy training program was established in 1994 to sharpen the skills of longtime community activists and serve as a vehicle for recent retirees and others to learn about and become more involved in senior advocacy. The course combines the basics of social action with important information on senior issues. Students will learn how to get more involved in the legislative process and to become effective advocates. Classes focus on a wide variety of subjects including navigating the federal, state and local legislative processes, public speaking, understanding senior benefits and entitlements, techniques of social action, and much more.

For more information, or to request an application, please contact Jacob Stolar at 212-991-6572 or ifsa@jasa.org or visit www.jasa.org. All adults 55+ are invited to apply.

Since 1968, JASA and its affiliates with its 3,000 staff and volunteers, have provided social, recreational, health, housing, cultural and educational programs for 53,000 older adults per year -- regardless of their race, religion, or ethnicity -- to help sustain them in their homes and communities and to offer opportunities for a better quality of life.  Services are available in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx, Nassau and Suffolk Counties.