Older Adults
Family Caregiver Support
Phone: 217-352-5100
Information and help accessing services, support, advocacy and training for people providing care or support for senior family members and for seniors raising young relatives.
Eligibility: Those caring for senior family members 60 or older (or of any age with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia) and those 55 or older raising relatives age 18 or under.
Service Area: Champaign and Piatt Counties
Fees: None
Intake Process: Call for information
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
Senior Resource Center
Phone: 217-352-5100
Information and help accessing services, support, advocacy, and training for seniors raising young relatives.
Eligibility: Those 55 or older raising relatives age 18 or under.
Service Area: Champaign and Piatt Counties
Fees: None
Intake Process: Call for information or to schedule consultation or home visit.
HomeCare
Senior Resource Center
Phone: 217-352-5100
Non-medical, in home assistance with personal care (bathing, grooming, dressing), meal preparation, shopping, errands, laundry, and housework. All HomeCare Assistants are pre-screened, trained, certified, background-checked, and closely supervised by professional staff. Personal Planner provides in-home evaluation and recommendations.
Eligibility: Age 60 or older for subsidized service, no restrictions for private pay service
Service Area: Champaign County
Fees: Fees are determined by specific services provided and include Personal Planning Assistance that provides a free initial in-home assessment that includes assistance with the coordination of the individual’s care. A subsidized care program for low-income seniors is also available on a sliding scale fee.
Intake Process: Call for information or to schedule consultation or home visit.
Meals on Wheels
Meals on Wheels
Senior Resource Center
Phone: 217-352-5100
Home-delivered, hot, noon meals Monday through Friday in Champaign, Urbana, and limited adjacent areas. For seniors or anyone who has difficulty with cooking due to illness, injury or disability. Sack suppers and special diet meals are available.
Eligibility: Seniors and others who have difficulty preparing a meal due to illness, injury or disability
Service Area: Champaign, Urbana, Savoy
Fees: Yes
[Download printable fee schedule] (PDF)
Intake Process: call at least two days in advance to begin service)
Download Meals on Wheels Volunteer Job Description (PDF)
Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP)
Phone: 217-359-6500
Email: rsvpchampaign@gmail.com
Eligibility: Older adults, age 55 or better, who enjoy staying active and involved in their communities
Service Area: Champaign, Douglas and Piatt Counties
Fees: None
Intake Process: Call, email or download an application to become a member. We will schedule a time for you to meet with us to help you choose the right volunteer job for you.
As an RSVP member you may choose from among more than 100 local public and non-profit organizations to donate your skills and experience. You will be joining other older adults who volunteer their time to meet critical community needs at schools, food pantries, libraries, hospitals, etc. You may volunteer as little time as one hour a month to as many as 40 hours a week. Your membership benefits may include mileage reimbursement, supplemental auto insurance, volunteer recognition events and much more.
RSVP is located inside the Stevick Senior Center, 48 Main Street, Champaign, in downtown Champaign. The Stevick Center also serves as a drop-in center for RSVP volunteers and other seniors.
Contact Karen Bodnar at rsvpchampaign@gmail.com.
Downloadable Forms
RSVP volunteers may use this link to email your hours to Robbie at rsvpcomp@gmail.com
Community Involvement Opportunities for RSVP Volunteers
The Family Service Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) offers older adults in Champaign, Douglas and Piatt Counties the opportunity for meaningful volunteer service to the community. To volunteer, call Marsha or Karen at 217/359-6500 or email us at rsvpchampaign@gmail.com.Volunteer at the Don Moyer Boys & Girls Club
Receptionists will greet visitors, answer phones and do light computer work any day(s), Mon – Fri, 8am – noon at 201 E. Park St, Champ. After school assistance is also needed for an afterschool program at the First Presbyterian Church in Champaign.
C-U Schools Foundation I.D.E.A. Store Helpers
Help sort and bag donated merchandise, greet shoppers, etc. The I.D.E.A. Store provides Champaign-Urbana and the surrounding communities a place to donate and buy reusable materials of all kinds for creative re-use. The store is located at 28 E. Springfield in Champaign
Early Morning Volunteers for the Food for Seniors Program
The Food for Seniors Program provides supplemental groceries to low income Champaign-Urbana seniors twice a month – the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays. Work with about 20-25 other seniors volunteers, helping sack groceries and/or serving as a substitute driver, using your own vehicle.
Adult Day Care Center Assistant
The Champaign County Nursing Home is looking for volunteers to work with their Sunshine Center staff assisting with recreational activities for day care clients. No experience necessary; a friendly and caring manner is all you need. If you can help one morning or afternoon a week, please contact us!
Office Assistant for CASA
The Court Appointed Special Advocates Program (CASA) helps children in abuse and neglect cases. They need your organizational skills for on-going file maintenance in their office in Lincoln Square, Urbana. Work a flexible schedule, anytime Mon-Fri, 8:30am-4:30pm.
Senior Transportation Drivers
Using their own vehicles, volunteers provide rides, to medical appointments and/or to the grocery store. Let us know what day(s) or time(s) you are available and we can work around your schedule. Mileage reimbursement is available.
Meals on Wheels Drivers
Volunteers are needed for the Family Service Meals on Wheels program. Use your own vehicle to help deliver hot meals to clients’ homes. Choose the day that works best for you – meals are delivered Monday through Friday, from approximately 10:30am-12:30pm. Work a minimum of one shift per month; weekly is preferred. Volunteers will be reimbursed for mileage.
Chanute Air Museum Front Desk Assistants
Friendly, smiling faces are needed to greet visitors to the museum in Rantoul. Staff the front desk and help out at the cash register in the gift shop, too. Help is needed on Wednesdays, 1-5pm.
Stevick Senior Center/RSVP Receptionists
Greet visitors and answer phones at our office at 48 E. Main Street in downtown Champaign. If you cannot commit to a ½ day on a regular basis, you could fill in as needed mornings (8am-noon) or afternoons (noon-4pm) Mondays – Fridays. Free parking is available.
Senior Medicare Patrol Volunteers Needed
Our RSVP program has just received a small grant to start a new program to help curb Medicare fraud and waste in Champaign, Douglas and Piatt Counties! We are now part of the Senior Medicare Patrol Program. You may have seen local television advertising lately about the program.
We are excited to become a part of this national initiative and to be able to offer our RSVP members a new opportunity to make a difference in the lives of fellow Medicare beneficiaries and to help protect our taxpayer dollars. Volunteers will receive thorough training on the Senior Medicare Program, Medicare Basics, and Medicare fraud and abuse and will be invited to attend update trainings as they occur.
What is the Senior Medicare Patrol Program?
The Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) Program empowers consumers to prevent healthcare fraud. Volunteers help people with Medicare and Medicaid to:
1. PROTECT themselves from Medicare & Medicaid fraud, waste and abuse.
2. DETECT Medicare & Medicaid fraud, waste and abuse.
3. REPORT Medicare & Medicaid fraud, waste and abuse.
What can RSVP volunteers do?
Volunteers can serve in a number of ways to help educate their neighbors to stop fraud:
• Give presentations on healthcare fraud to church groups, senior centers, etc.
• Provide information on healthcare fraud at health fairs or other community events.
• Distribute flyers and brochures to senior housing sites, libraries or businesses in your area.
• Write a letter to the editor or a newspaper article.
• Help people report fraud when it occurs.
To learn more about how you can become involved as an RSVP Senior Medicare Patrol Program volunteer, please contact us at (217) 359-6500 (ask for Karen or Marsha) or rsvpchampaign@gmail.com.
Senior Counseling
Senior Resource Center
Phone: 217-352-5100
Counseling (In-Home) and Advocacy. Personal assessment and counseling for seniors who need help with individual or family concerns or who are having difficulty securing services. Services provided by professional case workers trained and experienced in senior needs.
Eligibility: Age 60 or older
Service Area: Champaign County
Fees: None
Intake Process: Call for information or to schedule a home visit
Senior Information & Assistance
Senior Resource Center
Phone: 217-352-5100
Information over the telephone about private, public, and volunteer community resources of interest to seniors.
Eligibility: No restrictions
Service Area: Champaign County
Fees: None
Intake Process: Call for information
Senior Protective Services
Senior Resource Center
Phone: 217-352-5100
Break the Slence. Report elder abuse. It is everyone’s problem.
As older adults, we deserve to be treated with respect and dignity. We need to have control of our own money and personal decisions. We deserve to live without fear or intimidation.
When that doesn’t happen for people living in their own homes (or someone else’s home) in Champaign County or Piatt County, the Senior Protective Services staff may be able to help.
Elder abuse can be physical, sexual, or emotional abuse; passive neglect; willful deprivation; or financial exploitation of someone age 60 or older by someone with whom the older adult has an on-going relationship. Suspected abuse can be reported by the person feeling abused or by anyone else with an interest in an older person’s welfare. We can accept anonymous reports.
Staff will investigate all allegations received. If abuse is substantiated, staff can provide an in-home assessment, counseling, advocacy, practical assistance in obtaining benefits and services, coordination with other agencies, and monitoring.
Eligibility: Age 60 or older living in a home setting. To report concerns about treatment of older adults in nursing homes and other licensed facilities, please call the Ombudsman at 1-309-829-6018
Service Area: Champaign and Piatt Counties
Fees: None
Intake Process: In order to report suspected abuse, call 217-352-5100. After hours or for those who do not live in Champaign or Piatt counties call 1-866-800-1409
Senior Transportation
Senior Resource Center
Phone: 217-352-5100
Stay safe. Save money. Ride with us.
Driving is a major part of our society. We’re so used to just getting in the car whenever we want to and going where we need to go. But, sometimes it’s just not safe to drive any longer due to arthritis, slower reflexes, poor eye sight,, or other physical problems. Sometimes we’re just not comfortable driving any longer. And sometimes, we decide that it is just too expensive to keep up a car, licenses, and insurance any longer.
It can be scary. How will you get where you need to go? Will you have to depend on family and friends until they cringe when you call?
In Champaign County, older adults have an alternative. Senior Transportation can provide you up to two rides per week. Although primarily for medical, business, and grocery trips, one of these rides can be for something that improves your quality of life–a hair appointment, going to a volunteer site, visiting a spouse in the nursing home, or going shopping to name a few possibilities.
Rides are provided by our exceptional group of volunteers whenever possible. These volunteer rides are provided at no cost to you. We can also provide cab rides for which we pay half the fare. If you have an MTD Dash Pass, it will cover the other half of the cost (up to a certain amount per year) or you can pay that half out of your own pocket. If you need help getting a Dash Pass, our Senior Counseling and Advocacy staff will be glad to help you get one.
Eligibility: Age 60 or older
Service Area: Champaign County
Fees: Donations gladly accepted; volunteer rides provided at no cost; see above for cab fare fees
Intake Process: Call the Senior Transportation Coordinator for more information or to register
