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W i MEALS <br />*WHEELS <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />POLICIES AND PROCEDURES <br />SUBJECT: COVID-19: SOCIAL DISTANCING PROGRAMS FOR THE LUNCH CAFE <br />ORIGINAL POLICY DATE: MARCH 12, 2020 <br />POLICY REVISION DATE: <br />DEPARTMENT: SOCIAL SERVICES <br />APPROVED BY: <br />CEO DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR/MANAGER <br />POLICY STATEMENT: <br />Social distancing has a goal of reducing the occasions when large numbers of <br />people come together and are potentially exposed to a virus that is circulating in our <br />community. Social distancing serves to protect the health of vulnerable populations, and <br />ensures that essential public services, such as nutritional programs, are taking steps to <br />protect the public. <br />In response to the COVID-19 epidemic, we are bolstering our preventative and <br />social distancing measures to include the implementation of the following two programs: <br />Take Home Meals (Frozen) for Social Distancing and Emergency Shelf Stable <br />Meals. The implementation of the programs will be made with the dual goals of protecting <br />the health and safety of all participants while taking all necessary and deliberative steps <br />to assure continuity and avoid the disruption of nutritional services. <br />PROCEDURE: <br />Meals on Wheels OC will be providing frozen meals and/or emergency shelf stable <br />meals to all participants. For all participating sites, participants will be asked to go to their <br />Lunch Cafe site and pick up meals to avoid congregating. Delivery and distribution will be <br />determined per site. Meals must be accompanied with instructions for safe storage, <br />transporting the meals, and consumption of meals. See Procedures for Take Home Meals <br />(Frozen) for Social Distancing and Emergency Shelf Stable Meals for Social Distancing <br />for further procedural instruction <br />Pagel of 5 <br />