More than 150 volunteers took part in CICOA’s second annual Marion County Safe At Home event on Saturday, Oct. 1, performing minor home modifications and yard work to help area seniors stay "safe at home." This year’s event provided home modifications in the Haughville, Hawthorne and Stringtown neighborhoods on the near west side of Indianapolis.

Safe at Home is an annual high-impact half-day of service to homeowners over the age of 60 or to persons of any age with a disability to help make their homes safe and accessible for daily living. During the half-day service project, volunteers:

• Installed 35 grab bars around toilets and bathtubs
• Replaced 13 toilets
• Built 2 ramps to ease transition into and out of homes
• Repaired or replaced 4 sets of entry steps
• Installed 27 handrails for basement steps and entry ways
• Cleared overgrowth and debris from the yards of 14 homes

The projects were privately funded by individual and corporate donations to CICOA Aging & In-Home Solutions.

Event Day Schedule

8:00 a.m. Opening ceremony and orientation at the Kroger store
8:15 a.m. Leave for work sites
8:30 a.m. Work commences
12:00 p.m. Cleanup and return to
12:30 p.m. Lunch served to volunteers and staff

For more information please contact:
Dave Sander
Director Lifelong Living Communities and Policy
CICOA Aging & In-Home Solutions
(317) 803-6061
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Marion County Safe at Home Sponsors--Oct. 1, 2011

	COWS-Containers on Wheels Etelcare Home Services Unlimited, Inc. God's Helping Hands Home Safe Homes Southeastern Church of Christ

In cooperation with Lowe's, Kroger, Christamore House,
West Side Community Development Corporation,
IUPUI Center for Earth and Environmental Science,
Interstate Batteries