Monthly Program Updates
Pre-Retirement Planning Information
Retirement Lifestyle Changes
How will you structure your time after you retire?
Leisure means free time. While you’re working, you look forward to weekends as a time when you’re free to do what you want. Free time for a working person provides a break from the pressures of a full work schedule. Your hobbies or recreational activities can take your thoughts off those problems. After you finish a project that requires concentration, you may feel relaxed and pleased, and you may not remember what you were worrying about when you started.
In retirement, leisure will take the place of your job for 50 to 60 hours a week. Your job gives you social contact, recognition, a daily routine, a chance to use your skills, and a way to be productive. To continue to feel good about yourself, leisure should give you many of these same things.
If you retire in your sixties, you may have 25 percent of your adult life ahead of you. It is important to choose activities that will continue to give your life meaning and purpose.
There are three basic ideas to keep in mind while you are deciding how to use your free time – activity, diversity, and connection with others. Activity is a very personal issue. What may seem like a lot of activity to one person may be very little to someone else. Do you prefer group activities that are social or service in nature? Would you rather take part in recreational or educational activities? Volunteer work and paid work can give you a great deal of satisfaction if you’re doing something that is personally important.
For additional Lifestyle Changes information, go to the Self-Help Guide to Pre-Retirement Planning, Chapter 2 at: Self-Help Guide.
For Pre-Retirement Planning information, go to: DIRECTIONS: Pre-Retirement Planning Information.
NYS Network Child Care Center Highlight
This month we are spotlighting the Pooh’s Corner Child Care Center.
Pooh's Corner offers priority enrollment to children and families of New York State employees and accepts children from the community at large.
The Center is located at 500 Balltown Road and has been providing nurturing care for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers since 1986. The Center provides developmentally appropriate programming and is licensed by OCFS. The Center serves a morning and afternoon snack.
The Center offers their children a multicultural, multiracial educational experience and they make every effort to use books and role models that portray multi-cultural people in a variety of roles.
The Center offers tours for perspective families so please call to schedule a visit!
Some quick facts about Pooh’s Corner:
- The Center is open year-around, Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
- The Center has a licensed capacity of 43 children.
- The Center provides families with infant, toddler, and preschool programs.
For additional information, visit the Pooh's Corner website or call the center at (518) 370-7333.
For a full list of the NYS Network Child Care Centers and additional early care and learning information, go to: NYS Network Child Care Centers.
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
November is Employee Assistance Program Month
The New York State Employee Assistance Program (EAP) has been in existence for over 40 years offering confidential assistance at no cost. The EAP is available 24 hours a day and seven days a week (24/7) for employees and their family members. The EAP can help prevent everyday personal or work-related problems from getting worse by providing resources and referrals. Over 250 specially trained EAP Coordinators are available in agencies and facilities statewide to meet with employees in-person or by phone to provide support, information, assess problems, and customized referrals to local resources. Coordinators also assist agency staff when critical incidents occur. Coordinators make over 20,000 client contacts per year.
For information, assessment, and referral services for a variety of issues or just to introduce yourself, contact your EAP Coordinator using the Coordinator List or by calling 1-800-822-0244.