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AGING <br /> AGING <br /> Program Objectives (continued) <br /> • 3.2: Promote community awareness of the ADRC of services and supports <br /> currently available. <br /> • 3.3: Provide relevant person-centered information, assistance,referrals, and <br /> options counseling to consumers requesting services through the ADRC. <br /> 4. Live with Dignity: Enabling older adults and people with disabilities to live within <br /> the community with dignity through home and community-based services. <br /> • 4.1: Provide effective home-based services via case management. <br /> • 4.2: Provide active support for family caregivers through training, annual <br /> conferences, respite, counseling, and informational materials. <br /> • 4.3: Ensure that during each year of the planning cycle that the resource directory <br /> will be updated and available on the HCOA/ADRC website. <br /> 5. Disaster Preparedness: <br /> • 5.1 Initiate dialogue with contracted service providers in assessing their role, <br /> availability, and resource needs before, during, and after a disaster in providing <br /> services to older adults and people with disabilities. <br /> Program Highlights <br /> AGING AND DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTER(ADRC) <br /> • The Hawai`i County Office of Aging supports two Aging and Disability Resource <br /> Centers in Hawai`i County. These centers provided services to all consumers <br /> regardless of age. These services included information,referral, and options <br /> counseling for home and community-based services. In the past year,the ADRC <br /> provided information, assistance, and referral to approximately 2,566 unduplicated <br /> callers, and in-depth options counseling to 271 consumers and their families. <br /> • In addition,the office processes and issues disabled parking placards. On the <br /> average, the office processed 150 parking placard applications per month in East <br /> Hawai`i, and 100 per month in West Hawai`i. <br /> 5 <br />