Latest News & Current Happenings

4/13/2020 Boulder LCC

• Location: Microsoft Teams Meeting (virtual)
• Introductions – 37 in attendance
  • With intros we also spoke about how each of organizations have been affected by COVID-19 and what we’ve been doing to meet needs in our communities
• Meet every month 2:00pm-4:00pm
  • Even months – Longmont
  • Odd months – Boulder
• Mission – Overcome transportation gaps in the community
  • Multi-modal education
• Homeless Solutions for Boulder County – Heidi
  • They have set up a COVID-19 Recovery Center (CRC)
    • Have devoted the Rec Center to this purpose
  • Giving transportation to and from the CRC to the clinics for testing
• RTD – Chris Quinn
  • Service changes will go into effect this Sunday (4/19)
    • You can find more information on the RTD website
  • Access a Ride is doing grocery deliveries
    • Have had 60 grocery trips so far in April
  • Access a Ride has presumptive eligibility until assessments with Easter Seals can start up again
• Cultivate – Kristi
  • Doubling enrollment each week!!
    • Still haven’t hit a point where they must reject enrollments
  • Carry-out Caravan – doing grocery trips
    • Expanding to Broomfield site
    • They have partnered with organizations who have devoted property to set up a decontamination site
      • All food is wiped down and put into new decontaminated bags
    • For now, they are not bringing the groceries in and helping to put them away
• Via – Lisa
  • Paratransit is still available, but mostly they are doing grocery delivery
  • They are also partnering with Children’s Hospital in Broomfield
    • When children need to be transported to Denver hospitals the parents are not allowed to accompany the kids right now
    • Via is helping to transport the parents to the Denver hospitals
  • 1 person per vehicle right now
  • Hosting online community events
• Mobility 4 All – Angel
  • Have postponed all workshops
    • Rescheduling for the fall
  • Thinking about trying peer to peer Zoom or Google Hangout meetings
  • LiVE program
    • Planned to train other agencies in how to help a rider go through the sign-up process
      • This is also postponed until in-person training can be done
  • RFP for program to get a Longmont FlexRide-like program
    • Aiming for July 1^st
    • This project IS still moving forward
  • COVID-19 resources can be found on the Boulder City page
• Census – Craig
  • This census has a huge value for the next 10 years
  • There are tutorial videos on how to take the online census (includes instructions for the blind and using screen readers)
    • 2020census.gov
    • Or take over the phone: 1-844-330-2020
• American Cancer Society – Jenn
  • Services ARE paused, but they are continuing to provide resources
  • Information for cancer patients on what to know about COVID-19 can be found on their website: cancer.org
• NEXT MEETING
  • Monday 5/11/2020
  • Location: possibly still virtual?
  • Time: 2:00pm-4:00pm