Director of Berks County office of aging wins Latino award – Recipient Barbara Coffin helped start Casa de la Amistad, the largest senior center in Pennsylvania. From: readingeagle.com
Tagged: PennsylvaniaPosted on: May 5th, 2008
In 1985, Berks County Office of Aging Executive Director Barbara Coffin was asked to help meet the needs of the growing Latino community.
Consuelo Jordan, the head of the Albright College Language Department, told Coffin she wanted a senior center that would offer culturally appropriate meals and activities.
Twenty years later, that senior center, the Casa de la Amistad — or Friendship House — is the largest in Pennsylvania. Operated by the Daniel Torres Hispanic Center, the senior center serves more than 500 Latino seniors annually. The program has grown so much, a satellite office has opened at Kennedy Towers in southwest Reading.”*
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