On behalf of Serving Seniors, thank you to CCDC for your two generous grants totaling $70,000 for our Senior Nutrition Program. Grant funding supported life-sustaining nutrition and helped to improve the health of low-income seniors living in the South Bay region.
What Your Support Made Possible
For the last 50 years, our Nutrition Program has been the beating heart of our wraparound model, providing congregate and home-delivered meals to seniors across San Diego County.
When COVID-19 shuttered our congregate sites last March, we worked around the clock to transition our existing nutrition clients to home-delivered meals and meet the needs of thousands more seniors requesting services for the first time. Overnight, we began offering to-go meals at the Gary & Mary West Senior Wellness Center and began transitioning all our congregate meal clients to home-delivered meals. Soon we had more than tripled our Home-Delivered Meal Program and launched a new shelf-stable meal option, with boxes primarily prepared by volunteers and delivered directly to seniors’ homes.
Last year, our Senior Nutrition team provided 317,325 meals to 830 low-income seniors in the South Bay region— the most in our 50-year history. This represents a 223% increase in the number of meals served to South Bay clients over the previous fiscal year.
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