Dignity Health Connected Living

Food Services Such as Senior Brown Bag, Home Delivered Meals, and Commodities Are Available to Seniors Who Are Low Income And/or Homebound and Are in Need of Enough Food to Live an Active Healthy Life. Most Home-delivered Meal Programs Provide Their Clients With a Hot Meal Five Days a Week Delivered by Staff or Volunteer Drivers. Because of Their Frailty, Seniors Receiving Home-delivered Meals Are Unable to Make Their Own Meals. Senior Brown Bag and Commodities Are Distributed by Volunteers Several Times a Month, Without Which Many Seniors Would Go Without Nutritionally Adequate Regular Meals. in Addition, Nutrition Education Is Provided. Service Activity: RSVP With the Assistance of Partnering Stations Have Identified Low Income and Home Bound Seniors Needing Nutrition Education and Food Services. 109 Volunteers Are Needed to Assist With Nutrition Education and Food Support. Location of Services: Shasta, Tehama, Trinity, Glenn and Siskiyou Counties. Outcome: Healthy Futures Is the Primary Focus Area of the RSVP Project and at the End of the Three-year Grant Cycle, 1,090 Homebound or Older Adults and Individuals With Disabilities Will Have Been Served. in Addition, 150 RSVP Volunteers Will Serve in Other Community Priorities by Serving at Local Non-profit Agencies, Hospitals, Thrift Stores, Schools, Libraries, Public Safety and More. Funding: Requested: $109,638 Non Federal Funding: Dignity Health Provides In-kind Through Human Resources, It Support, and Other Corporate Charges That Could Be Billed to Senior Corps Grants. Additional In-kind for Rent, Space, Breakfast, Lunches and Recognitions for Volunteers Are Supported by Local Partnering Agencies. Excess Funding: Federal Transit Administration -- 2019 Operating Assistance Mobility Management 5310 Grant - $61,767 to Cover the Cost of Volunteer Mileage, Supplies and Salaries.