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Goodlette Arms Apartments - Naples, Florida

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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.


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 weather.
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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.

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.

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.

 
  Goodlette Arms Apartments
950 Goodlette Road
Naples, Florida 34102
(239) 262-3229
 

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