Dear
Friends and Partners,
This
is the May 24th update of Wright County’s Care and Nutrition Support for
seniors (60+). We are starting our 10th week of response to COVID-19. Wright County Community
Action (WCCA) has a support line for seniors; please encourage seniors to call
(320) 963-6500 Ext. 274. As a
community, we want to help with our most
vulnerable neighbors’ challenges, including isolation, assistance with grocery access through education, grocery delivery, senior
mobile food shelf needs, frozen meal support, prescription access, and other
needs as they present.
Active
COVID-19 cases in Wright County have climbed from 84 to 152 this week.
Many of us now are hearing about situations in our community effecting people
we know. I have examples of three myself just this last week. Also
please find attached a PDF of a PowerPoint developed to describe the Wright
County Team’s Senior Services Response to the COVID-19 Crisis. I hope
this will help inform partners with regard to the Wright County’s team work.
Wright County
has over 24,000 individuals age 60+. Of those 24,000 (60+) almost 1,600
(6.5%) live in poverty. We are currently serving about 5% of this most
vulnerable 60+ population, and we have found that COVID-19 does not
discriminate on just economic lines. Some of our neighbors experience a
tremendous amount of fear, some have very high risk factors and experience
extremely high medical costs, some struggle with access to grocery delivery, as
well as some with the cost of food while on a fixed budget, especially as it
has becomes less available and more expensive to obtain.
In the last
weeks we have added over 40 new Senior
Mobile Food Shelf Clients for county-wide delivery.
**NEW Frozen
meal production started on Wednesday May 20th at Waverly Café and in
the first 3 days almost 1,000 meals have been produced. Thank you
so much Waverly Café for taking on this important work to expand this resource
for our seniors.
If
you’d like to help expand
this resource to our seniors expressly on Highway 12,
please consider donating to the COVID-19 Fund at the Delano Loretto Area United
Way:
- Write a
check to: Delano Loretto United Way
In the memo line, write: “COVID-19 Food.”
Mail
to: P.O. Box 578
Delano,
MN 55328
- Or visit
the Delano Loretto United Way Website
(type “COVID-19 Food” in the box) http://www.delanolorettouw.org/ and donate via credit card or PayPal
The
entire community of Wright County is in this together!
Grateful,
Jay
Weatherford
WCCA
Executive Director
Information
for Wright County senior support services:
https://www.wccaweb.com/Home/Index (click current programs)
or
or
call:
- (320) 963-6500 Ext 274 – Aging Program Manager - Eric Nagel
- (320) 963-6500 Ext 241 – Dispatch
- 1-800-333-2433 – Senior LinkAge Line
- Delivered
Frozen Meal Program(s) – WCCA at (320) 963-6500 Ext 274 or Catholic
Charities Meals on Wheels program located in Maple Lake: (320) 963-5771, Annandale: (320) 274-3891 and
Buffalo: (763) 682-6036
To
volunteer:
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