Full
Circle wants to help its residents achieve maximum mental
and physical health and self-sufficiency. Full Circle's flagship
property, the Goodlette Arms Apartments, is an affordable
housing community for senior citizens in Naples, Florida.
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Full Circle is working with local providers to assist the
residents of Goodlette Arms with the issues that can present
the greatest challenges to seniors: mobility, physical health,
and interaction.
Mobility:
Goodlette Arms provides daily van trips to local malls, medical
centers and other destinations. The van schedule is posted
on a regular basis for the convenience of our residents.This
is a free service provided to our residents at Goodlette Arms.
Physical Health: Goodlette Arms has contacted local
providers to schedule regular visits from medical professionals,
nutrition counselors and exercise therapists. For seniors,
compromised mobility and health issues, if left unaddressed,
can combine into a downward spiral that results in the resident's
being unable or unwilling to leave the apartment.
Interaction:
More social interaction generally leads to less isolation
and a better state of mind.When residents know and interact
with each other, they form bonds that strengthen the life
of the entire community.Residents also look in on their neighbors
frequently to ensure that they're able to get about and to
function.

Full Circle aims to combine services to enhance mobility with
the chance to receive medical attention and regular exercise,
in a coordinated effort to help the residents maximize their
health and their enjoyment of the property. Goodlette Arms
will provide regular events that help get residents out of
their apartments and into contact with their fellow residents.
Goodlette
Arms is serving as the local training and coordination center
for the Senior Companions program. Working with local senior
service agencies, selected residents of the Goodlette Arms
Apartments will be trained to assist other seniors in the
Naples area with chores, or to simply provide companionship,
in exchange for a non-taxable stipend. The
goal is to not only provide Goodlette's residents with enhanced
assistance and companionship, but to give residents the opportunities
to help others in the community who are less able to help
themselves.

In
April 2003, Full Circle provided Goodlette Arms residents
with 200+ yards of new sidewalk. The sidewalk provides
residents with a safer route to Goodlette Road, and more
room to get out and enjoy the wonderful Southwest Florida
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Through a wholly-owned subsidiary,
Full Circle made its first acquisition in February 2002
with the purchase of the Goodlette Arms Apartments,
a 250-unit senior Section 8 property in Naples, Florida.
Residents in 242 of the property's 250 apartments pay
30 percent of their pre-tax income in rent; the US Department
of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) pays the remainder.
The remaining apartments are subject to a Section 236
loan with slightly different income restrictions.
Through HUD, Full Circle renewed the Housing
Assistance Payment (HAP) contract for a period of approximately
20 years. Full Circle immediately set about creating
a comprehensive service and improvement program for
the property.
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In February 2004, Goodlette Arms presented residents
with the gift of mobility: a new van with a wheelchair lift, and
space for two wheelchairs and 12 seated passengers.
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With this acquisition, Full Circle has preserved
a desperately needed supply of affordable housing in Naples,
the largest and wealthiest community in one of the wealthiest
counties in the nation.
Programs provided to
residents of Goodlette Arms include:
- Health screenings
- Nutritional
Counseling
- Safety and
self-defense for seniors
- Senior Companions
program
- Exercise
programs
- Social
events: movies, music, guest speakers
- Languages:
Spanish (for native English speakers), English (for
native Spanish speakers)
- File of Life
(In conjunction with Collier County Sheriff's Office
of Senior Services: Creation of vital medical information
file in case of emergency)
- Enhanced mobility:
regular field trips to malls, sites of local interest,
medical offices
Services are organized
and overseen by a full-time Service Coordinator whose position is made
possible by a grant from HUD.
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