Midway City Community Center

About Midway City Community Center

ABRAZAR's second facility, located at 14900 Park Lane, Midway City, California, was also built to be a senior center in 1983. This location is about 2 miles south/east from the Westminster Headquarters. It also has a kitchen, freezers, storage space, large recreation room, private offices, and is adjacent to a public park that is used for outdoor recreation activities for seniors. The 15,000 square feet center has a large meeting room where seniors play bingo and have lunch. The agency has program and administrative offices for case management. The public park serves as a site for the exercise classes, particularly, the senior’s Longevity Stick Exercise Program but the center also has in-door facilities for the senior’s exercise classes when the weather gets too cold or too hot outside. This location is ideally located to serve many seniors who live within walking distance from the Midway City Community Center. There is an affordable 92-unit senior citizens housing complex directly across the street from the center. Many of the seniors are able to walk across the street and socialize, eat lunch, and participate in the exercise classes offered at the center. Located in the heart of Little Saigon, the Midway City location has had great success reaching seniors who were very isolated, live alone and speak very limited English or only Vietnamese. Because of high attendance and requests from participants, the weekly nutrition program was increased from two days per week to five days per week. The majority of the seniors attending the additional luncheon days speak primarily Vietnamese or Spanish. This community center includes additional office space the center shares with other community based agencies, clubs and community groups. On the las Wednesday of each month, CalOptima is availble as a resource fro Medicare and MediCal information. Meetings are held in colloboration with OC Health Care Agency, Department of Social Services and Orange County Board of Supervisors - District I. The Orange County Housing & Community Development holds Town Hall meetings and the center hosts Neighborhood Watch meetings throughout the year.