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Franciscan Community Meals on Wheels Program The Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity at Good Samaritan Medical Center started the Franciscan Community Meals Program in 1967. Due to the growth of this program the Community Action Agency of Muskingum County was requested to assume the responsibility of the program in 1979, with Genesis Health Care System (Good Samaritan Campus) remaining the supplier of the meals. The age range of our clients is six years to one hundred years.
Meals are prepared for each individual as prescribed by their physician, and according to a list of their likes and dislikes. Hot meals are prepared and delivered Monday through Friday. Frozen meals can be delivered for the weekend or holidays. Individuals living outside the delivery area can receive frozen meals, and have them delivered on Monday’s.
Franciscan Community Meals is a provider for PASSPORT sponsored meals when the client has been approved through the Area Agency on Aging. There is a Wavier Program designed for individuals under the age of sixty-five who are in need of home delivered meals, these have to be approved by the Department of Human Services. Any individual can receive home delivered meals on a self-pay basis.
Volunteers are the vital link for the Franciscan Community Meals-on-Wheels program and add an immeasurable human value to the quality of what we do. We believe that those we serve deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. Much too often, the volunteer may be the only contact with the customer for that day, the only caring words or smile, or the only safety net to alert us of possible health conditions or additional needs the customer may have.
The Franciscan Community Meals-on-Wheels Adopt-a-Route program is an easy and effective way for companies and organizations to get involved in their local communities! With as few as four people, a company or organization can Adopt-a-Route and deliver meals one day a week. Therefore, individual staff members would only deliver once a month, but the company or organization would help seniors, homebound and handicapped individuals every week.
On October 13, 2012, our community will rally together to prepare over 100,000 meals to feed starving children! Schools, churches, and businesses are all working together to meet this goal. In just two hours, each volunteer will package over 300 meals. You've always said that you want to make a difference. Take this opportunity to do just that!
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We need volunteers to help greet and hand out bulletins to the Rolling Plains congregation each week on a rotating basis during both the 8:30 and 11:00 service. We also need volunteers to be available after the service to welcome and hand out a small gift to 1st time attendees.
We have an exciting county wide family focused fundraising project that will engage families within their communities while at the same time generate $100,000 for our organization. We need someone to step up to the plate and have fun doing this great community event.
This opportunity will be used anytime I want to record volunteer hours worked that are not specifically already listed as an opportunity.
We are in need of volunteers to assist the teacher. Duties would include helping students with the mouse, type on the keyboard, etc. Very basic knowledge of the computer is required of the volunteers. Students ages range from 38 to 76.
We have a website, however we need someone who would volunteer to keep it active up to date with our brochures, program applications, connections to other resources and overall clear crisp easy to use that will cause the entire family to see it as a source for their answers.