St Ann Center for Intergenerational Care, Inc
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
One of the problems we have addressed since the beginning of our organization's history is to prevent the premature institutionalization of the elderly and adults with disabilities. When our founder first opened our center Wisconsin had the highest rates of adults in Nursing homes because a lot of the time there were not any alternative solutions. Family members felt forced to place loved ones in institutions and she made it her mission to change that. A few years into operating the adult day care she realized the numerous benefits of having the children come and engage with the adults. Then the problem expanded to how do we foster more positive interactions between the generations and create a center where they can interact together all while being affordable.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Adult Day Care
From morning exercise to lunch with friends and an afternoon filled with activities and socializing, we help the frail elders and adults of all ages with disabilities that we serve feel like part of the family.
Medical care from an RN or LPN and help with personal hygiene and grooming (including dental hygiene), continence and mobility are provided by qualified personal care workers.
A hot lunch and snack are served daily. Special dietary needs can be met, including tube feeding.
There are plenty of opportunities to socialize with daily exercise, field trips and swimming
Our adults can express themselves and learn new skills through music and art.
Care of mind, body and spirit is nurtured through emotional and spiritual support, outpatient physical and occupational therapy, and hair and nail services
A low staff-to-client ratio allows us to get to know our adults and their unique interests, skills and needs.
Child Day Care
St. Ann Center’s experienced, caring staff provides the support and security children need at every step of their development. For infants and toddlers, newly aware of themselves and others, that’s the security, and a sense that their world is a caring place. For preschoolers, it’s loving and guidance as they start to to establish friendships and prepare for academic learning. Schoolchildren, working hard in class, need time to exercise and support for academic learning, and challenging activities.
St. Ann Center’s teachers are here to help your baby feel loved and secure while exploring and learning about themselves and the world around them.
Your child is ready to begin growing to their greatest potential through social, academic, physical, and creative activities, from swimming to the ABCs. Our curriculum celebrates each child’s uniqueness and incorporates regular intergenerational activity time with the adults in our care—music, stories, art projects, simple games and more.
Overnight Adult Respite
Available 24/7/365, St. Ann Center’s temporary overnight respite care service lets frail elders and adults with special needs stay from one to 21 days in bed-and-breakfast-style private rooms, with compassionate care provided by trained caregivers.
This offers family caregivers a welcome break from the demands of caregiving – time to take a vacation, a business trip, attend to their own health needs or just recharge their batteries.
Adults in overnight respite care enjoy three hot, healthy meals a day, plus snack; personal care assistance; whirlpool bathing assistance; medication management and medical needs supervision; daily activities (such as art and music, group games, entertainment and movies); housekeeping and daily bed linen service. Guests take part in our adult day program and intergenerational activities.
Specialized Dementia Care
We provide quality day services in a homelike, secured setting for people with Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia.
WE OFFER:
Compassionate Care. Dedicated staffers offer secure, comforting care to people in all stages of dementia.
Nutrition. A hot lunch and snack are served daily. Special dietary needs can be met, including tube feeding.
Activities. Stimulating activities for the mind, body and spirit help keep our adults engaged, including music therapy, art, exercise, storytelling, games, movies and hobby group. The Stein Campus has a secured outdoor patio; the Bucyrus Campus an indoor walking path with life-skill stations.
Personal Attention: A client-to-staff ratio of 4:1 allows us to attend to each client’s level of ability, behavioral changes and physical and emotional needs.
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Personal Hygiene/Whirlpool Baths
It’s often challenging to meet the personal hygiene needs of an elderly loved one with disabilities. We offer hygiene care services such as whirlpool baths to help caregivers meet those needs.
Private, personalized bathing care in wheelchair-accessible tubs, with a personal care assistant, is available to any community member (with health clearance from a physician), not just those enrolled in our day program.
Appointments are available from 7 AM – 3 PM Monday through Friday, on a pay-per-service basis. A Hoyer lift and other specialized equipment are available.
Caregiver Support and Resources
Caregiving is hard work. But you are not alone! Come connect, share experiences with others and discover resources at our support groups.
Join us in a confidential discussion. Share the experiences, challenges, insights, resources, and rewards of caring for a loved one. Feel how good it is to be listened to and understood. This group is open to all caregivers – your loved one does not need to be a client at St. Ann Center.
Where we work
Awards
Intergenerational Shared Site Best Practices Award 2009
Generations United
Torch Award for Business Ethics (runner up) 2007
Wisconsin Better Business Bureau
St. Ann Center: One of the 12 Best of the Great Lakes Region in Aging 2006
Grantmakers in Aging
One of 20 Best Places to Work in Milwaukee 2002
Milwaukee Magazine
First Place Service to Seniors Award for Milwaukee Community Service Bank 2001
National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare
Program of Distinction, for Quality Intergenerational Programming 2013
Generations United
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of clients served
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Older adults, Seniors, People with disabilities, Low-income people, Veterans
Related Program
Adult Day Care
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Total number of unique adult clients served over the year. Daily averages over the last ten years are between (125 and 280 across both campus')
Average number of dollars received per donor
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of unique website visitors
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Increasing
Average Daily Childcare Enrollment
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Infants and toddlers, Children
Related Program
Child Day Care
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This represents the average number throughout the year. This does not include summer camps.
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
1. In 2015 we opened a new facility located in Milwaukee's most under served zip code 53206 which we have named the Bucyrus Campus. We split the $28 million project into two phases leaving 25% of the inside of the facility as shelled spaces to be completed as funds were raised. We were able to raise an additional $140,000 as of August 2015 and in October received a verbal pledge of $750,000 to finish the respite center. This means the main goal for 2016 and beyond is to complete this facility allowing us to serve 250 children and 300 adults at this location on a daily basis. For 2023 we will be reopening the Respite Unit at the Bucyrus campus which has been closed since the COVID-19 pandemic.
2. For our Stein Campus which opened in 1999 we would like to make the building more financially stable by increasing the numbers of adults using the facility and put into place strategies to continue to engage with the disability and elderly communities. It is imperative to continue to bring community awareness to all of our programs and services so participation numbers stay high putting less of a burden on fundraising.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
In 2015, St. Ann Center took ownership of two blocks of environmentally contaminated vacant land in Milwaukee’s poorest neighborhood and built the 90,000 square foot Bucyrus Campus. This campus is located in the geographic center of the 53205 and 53206 ZIP codes—two of the nation’s most impoverished neighborhoods. The area suffers from a 63% poverty rate, incomes less than 27% of the area median, and a 64% unemployment rate for males. Early childhood education programs and senior care options are largely absent in this area of the city.
By opening the Bucyrus Campus, not only is St. Ann Center offering these services to people in the neighborhood but we have also created 75 permanent jobs in childcare, adult daycare, food service, and maintenance, over 90% of which are filled by people from the immediate neighborhood.
Along with the intergenerational services that St. Ann Center is known for, the Bucyrus Campus has initiated several programs that actively promote neighborhood revitalization for residents in the surrounding neighborhood. These include:
• Monthly First Fridays 4 Business networking group for neighborhood entrepreneurs
• Business Incubator Workshops held each year to assist small business hopefuls
• Microloan program to assist small businesses within one mile of Bucyrus Campus
• Partnership with Business Improvement District to improve North Avenue corridor
• Dozens of business, government, and community development meetings held on site
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
St. Ann Center's founder and president St. Edna Lonergan has an exceptional track record for fundraising, we also have a dedicated fundraising/marketing staff of four and a half as well as a grant writer/community development staff person. We have an amazing group of community volunteers and supporters who have stood with us through many challenges and celebrations. In increasing enrollment we will continue to educate the local community about what services we provide as well as continue to offer high level services and stick to our mission. This is what attracts people to our center.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
We have accomplished so much since we began as an Adult Day Care, in 1983, serving about 10 adults in two centers with a combined footprint of 136,000 square feet. To complete the Bucyrus Campus we did take out about 3 million in loans so over the next few years we want to pay those down as much as possible allowing more funds to go into staff costs and programs. Over the subsequent few years, stability will be the main focus to ensure both centers will continue for many years.
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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St Ann Center for Intergenerational Care, Inc
Board of directorsas of 06/07/2023
Timothy Sullivan
Bucyrus-Erie International (retired)
Term: 2023 -
Kristen Kregbaum
Paycom
Timothy Sullivan
Bucyrus-Erie International (retired)
Craig Mackus
Bucyrus-Erie International (retired)
Kristen Kreigbaum
Paycom
Sr. Ann Kelly, OSF
Order of St. Francis
Jeremy Moore
Wgema Campus Police Department
Angela Thompson
KBI
Ramona Dicks-Williams
Retired
Sr. Diane Oman
Order of St. Francis
Dr. Michael Goss
Retired
Peter Kordus
M&M Office Interiors
William Reiley
Lakeside International Trucks
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
The organization's leader identifies as:
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Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
- We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.