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About us

The Alzheimer’s Association - Hudson Valley/Rockland/Westchester, NY Chapter provides support and assistance to the communities of  Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster and Westchester counties in New York. The Chapter is a unit of the Alzheimer's Association  and is committed to carrying out the mission of the Association at the local level.  It is registered in New York as a non-profit corporation and governed by a volunteer Board of Directors.

Our mission
To eliminate Alzheimer's disease through the advancement of research; to provide and enhance care and support for all affected; and to reduce the risk of dementia through the promotion of brain health.

Our vision
A world without Alzheimer's disease.

Financial information

The Hudson Valley/Rockland/Westchester, NY Chapter is a tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) nonprofit, donor-supported organization (EIN 14-1695487). Programs and services are made possible through contributions from individuals, corporations and foundations. The chapter uses 75-80% of funds raised for programs, services and research efforts.

Annual report

2006 Annual Report

 

Board of directors - Hudson Valley/Rockland/Westchester, NY Chapter

Officers

Bret Jacobowitz, Chair
Hopewell Junction, NY

Charlotte Ostman, First Vice Chair
New Windsor, NY

Karen Ganis, Second Vice Chair
Carmel, NY

Maureen Coughlin, Treasurer
Goshen, NY

Andrew B. Sillin, Secretary
Modena, NY

Directors

William M. Cahn, III, Armonk, NY
Alan E. Dillon, Tarytown, NY
William J. Higgins, M.D., Peekskill, NY
Debra Kagan-Birkeland, Nyack, NY
Faith Kotzer, Nanuet, NY
Karen Foster Lesperance, Esq., Highland, NY
John Levin, Mahopac, NY
Melissa MacCaull, Ossining, NY
James B. McEvoy, South Salem, NY
Janet Newberg, Rock Hill, NY
Steven Schurkman, Esq., White Plains, NY

Staff List

 

Our history

In the late 1970’s and 1980’s, a number of local caregiver support groups sprang up as a result of partnerships between family caregivers and human service professionals. Several of these grass-roots organizations later applied to become affiliates of the national Alzheimer’s Association.

A group in Westchester was first, joining the national organization in late 1980, the year of its founding, and opening an office at Burke Rehabilitation Center, in White Plains, in December, 1981.  Much later, in 1997, the Chapter took on responsibility for serving Putnam County, where a small chapter had previously existed; a Point of Service was opened in space donated by United Cerebral Palsy in 2001.

A chapter in Rockland County was founded when one of the members of the County’s first Alzheimer’s support group suggested getting connected to the National Alzheimer’s Association and got all the paperwork going.  The Rockland County chapter was approved in 1984. The Chapter initially occupied a small room at the Dr. Robert L. Yeager Health Care Center.

The Mid-Hudson Chapter, serving Dutchess, Orange, and Ulster Counties, was founded in 1986 when the facilitator of an Alzheimer’s caregiver support group at the Dutchess County Office for the Aging urged the group to affiliate with the National Alzheimer’s Association.  The Chapter set up an office in a room donated by the Office for the Aging in 1991.  
 

The Sullivan Chapter also resulted from the joint efforts of family caregivers and professionals.  A member of a support group held at Catskill Regional Medical Center worked with the support group leader and other family caregivers to form a Sullivan County Alzheimer’s Committee—and, in 1992, a chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association.
 
An office in Monticello served families from 1996 to 1999, when the group joined forces with the Mid-Hudson Chapter and opened a larger office in Middletown to serve families in both Sullivan and Orange.

The Rockland and Mid-Hudson Chapters subsequently voted to merge in 2000, and the Mid-Hudson and Westchester/ Putnam Chapters followed suit, leading to the creation of the Hudson Valley/Rockland/ Westchester, NY Chapter in 2002.  The chapter Boards arrived at these decisions to realign because they believed that a single chapter would enable them to provide more and better patient and family services, to reach more families in their local areas, and to raise more revenue to support their mission.

Today the Hudson Valley/Rockland/Westchester, NY Chapter is an organization with 22 staff in five offices, supported by thousands of families throughout Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester Counties.  With this growth have come vastly enhanced programs and services for the almost 40,000 individuals in our seven counties who have Alzheimer’s disease or a related disorder, their families, and health care professionals.