{"id":3683,"date":"2013-12-06T21:50:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T21:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gnof.org\/?p=3683"},"modified":"2013-12-06T22:10:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T22:10:23","slug":"kingsley-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/gnof\/kingsley-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Generations of Social and Human Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/123585432&amp;color=ff6600&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=true\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A roomful of 80-some seniors at Kingsley House\u2019s Adult Day Health Care sing along to a strumming guitar. Mary Agnes Schroeder, age 86, has her hands busy knitting a scarf the entire time.\u00a0\u201cI\u2019ve been doing this all my life,\u201d says Schroeder. \u201cSometimes when I\u2019m working on one thing, something else pops into my mind. And I forget what I\u2019m working on and go start something. It really relaxes me. It really do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mary Schroeder says she knits constantly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery day, even in my sleep, believe it or not. Because I have patterns in my head that I think about, and I get up the next morning and I\u2019m a start that pattern. Whatever I have in my mind, I starts it. I\u2019m sitting out here talking and doing all of this. It helps me with my health too,\u201d continues Schroeder. \u201cBecause I don\u2019t think about being sick. See my knees and everything is gone, but I don\u2019t think about that. I\u2019m busy with my fingers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Keith Liederman is the Chief Executive Officer at Kingsley House. He says the Adult Services program \u2014\u00a0which is one of many programs offered by Kingsley House \u2014\u00a0is mostly for folks who are medically fragile.\u00a0\u201cThese are folks that if they weren\u2019t coming here would otherwise likely be in a nursing home placement,\u201d says Liederman. \u201cSo it\u2019s really a community based alternative to unnecessary nursing home or hospitalization placement and a big assist to their caregivers. They all require twenty-four hour a day, seven day a week care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of our participants, who\u2019s known as Mother, she\u2019s right here,\u201d points Paul Metoyer, the director of Adult Services at Kingsley House. \u201cShe\u2019s 107 years old.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t hear you but you can hear me,\u201d declares Mother.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Metoyer tells me that Mother, who\u2019s real name is Maggie Simmons, lives with her grandsons, who are in their 70\u2019s. They bring her to Adult Day Health Care every morning.\u00a0Family involvement is a big part of Kingsley House, and it has been, ever since it was started as a Settlement House \u2014\u00a0the first one in the South \u2014\u00a0back in 1896 when it served mostly German and Irish immigrants in the Irish Channel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been doing childcare and early childhood development at Kingsley House for over one hundred and fifteen years now,\u201d says Liederman. \u201cIt was actually the first program that we started.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But there are many firsts.\u00a0\u201cPretty much everything related to social and human service that we have and we take for granted here in Louisiana now had its origins here at Kingsley House,\u201d explains Liederman.\u00a0\u201cSo first structured recreational programs for children and youth in the city of New Orleans happened here at Kingsley House. That morphed into the New Orleans Recreation Department. First playground in New Orleans was started by Kingsley House. We started the first School of Applied and Behavioral Sciences in partnership with Tulane University in 1910. This is where social work as a profession in the deep south started. And today, we\u2019ve evolved into a multi service, nationally accredited social and human services organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An organization which serves about seven thousand people a year. Over three hundred and fifty of them are young children in Head Start and Early Head Start Program. They can be as young as six weeks old, but Jamari is four.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know how to teach my friends how to read a book,\u201d declares Jamari. \u201cI know how to do Green Eggs and Ham. That\u2019s Sam I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnything else you want to tell me?\u201d I ask.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know how to spell orange?\u201d Jamari asks. I nod. \u201cSpell it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou spell it,\u201d I say.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cO-r-a-n-g-e. Purple! P-u-r-p-l-e. Green! G-r-e-e-n. Pink! P-i-n-k.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, Jamari is academically on top of her game, but Kingsley House attends to all of a child\u2019s developmental needs \u2014\u00a0social, cognitive, behavioral, and emotional \u2014\u00a0and they do it while fully engaging with families.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about <a title=\"Kingsley House\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kingsleyhouse.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kingsley House here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Written by Eve Abrams for the Community IMPACT Series and produced by WWNO in partnership with the Greater New Orleans Foundation.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A roomful of 80-some seniors at Kingsley House\u2019s Adult Day Health Care sing along to a strumming guitar. 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