The community center has been closed to the public since March 16th. Community Center staff are on a rotating schedule between delivering meals on wheels, teleworking, and being onsite to answer phones, make check in calls to the seniors, and receive meal delivery from Bateman food services. All transportation services have been cancelled at this time.
The department has spent the last month deep cleaning the facility, reorganizing storage rooms, archiving documents, and rearranging work stations. Orders are underway for barriers and directional signs to assist with social distancing when the community center reopens.
Senior Services
Community Services Staff along with Library and Transit staff continue to deliver Meals on wheels 4 days per week. For the month of April, 2,435 meals were delivered on four different routes each day. We have received about 50 handmade masks which we have been able to the distributed to locals seniors. In addition, handmade cards with written messages from local children, pet food, and some personal have been sent out to our Meals on wheels clients. Pet food, and personal items.
Clackamas County set up a food box distribution initiative to address extra needs in the communities. The delivery of these food boxes begin on April 6th and staff distributed 66 of these boxes for the month of April.
Staff is researching a possible opportunity to partner with a local restaurant business to provide a hot delivered meal one day a week for all Meals on wheels clients. We hope to get this going for the month of May.
Weekly calls continue with Clackamas County Community Center directors. This is an opportunity to share challenges, ideas, and processes for the operations during the COVID19 pandemic.
Staff is reaching out to the seniors for their interest and capabilities to do a virtual fitness class. Onsite functional fitness class has usually had approximately 30 people. Offerings for a weekly fitness class beginning in May.
Staff are also working on ways to virtually connect with seniors. In addition to staff making calls to check in with the seniors, staff are setting up a virtual coffee chat. This will give the seniors an opportunity to connect with each other and for staff to assist with any challenges with operating the internet and using electronic devices. The coffee chats will begin in May the day before the virtual fitness classes begin. Carol has connected with 18 seniors who are ready to go and will continue to get the word out.
Recreation