10 FRONTDOORS MEDIA | MAY 2 020 6. Can you talk about the changes you’ve incorporated to keep families fed? St. Vincent de Paul normally invites all of our guests into our dining rooms to eat together as members of our extended family. During this crisis, we have pivoted our model to provide pre-packaged, to-go meals for our guests that are picked up outside of our dining rooms. For dining rooms that primarily serve individuals, they receive a restaurant entrée and a sack lunch with a sandwich, snacks, water and a blessing card from our “Helping from Home” volunteers. In our family dining room, families come to our “drive-thru window” and receive dinner entrées for their family, a bag of healthy produce harvested from our urban farms for meals at home, and activity kits for their children from our Dream Center educational program. On Easter, they even received Easter baskets and a drive- thru visit with the Easter Bunny! 7. When people think about services at St. Vincent de Paul, many don’t think about medical and dental. How have they been affected? Like most non-emergency healthcare providers, our Virginia G. Piper Medical & Dental Clinic has seen a complete shift in how they are able to care for patients during this time. Our medical clinic and family wellness diabetes prevention program continue to provide services through telehealth visits and classes to support patients’ needs and help them to stay as healthy as possible during this crisis. They can use video check-ins and phone calls to ensure that patients continue to have access to medical care, prescription refills, doctor expertise, nutrition advice and overall wellness guidance. This fulfills an additional goal of decreasing emergency department usage and avoiding the emergency response system while these patients are in our care. Our dental clinic is available for emergency patients on an as-needed basis. When there isn’t a dental emergency, you can find the majority of our dental staff redeployed to other programs that allow us to continue to serve. 8. St. Vincent de Paul provides hope and connection, not only for the people it serves but for the people who work and volunteer there. How are you all staying connected these days? There’s no need for social distancing to put a kink in community connection and hope. That’s why we are inviting the St. Vincent de Paul family and the larger community to go ALL IN with us on spreading kindness and generosity to others, especially during this time. So whether that’s joining our “Helping from Home” efforts to stay connected through volunteerism or practicing a bit of community kindness and then sharing what you did on social media using the #AllinThisTogether and #MakeKindnessViral hashtags, we’re making sure that the St. Vincent de Paul culture of care and compassion continues to connect and inspire us, now more than ever. 9. What’s the biggest lesson this crisis has taught you? I continue to be inspired by the resiliency of the human spirit and the depth of compassion, care and generosity that our community shares. We are at our very best when we choose kindness and love over fear and embrace generosity over scarcity. During this crisis, we are inspired and strengthened by a generous, loving community at its very best when caring for one another. On that note, one additional thought lingers in my mind. The coming summer months will prove even more difficult for the vulnerable people we

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