Meals on Wheels Yolo County

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We're hiring! Are you seeking a Food Services or delivery position that adds meaning to your resume and and an inspiring reason to look forward to your work days? Then you may be the hero we’re seeking to provide nourishing meals to aging adults countywide who are isolated and food insecure. Please visit https://lnkd.in/dqcc2J8a to learn more about these full-time and part-time positions: 👩🍳 Chef - FT 👨🍳 Chef Assistant - FT 🍽 Meal Connection Coordinator - FT (West Sacramento) 🚚 Meal Delivery Driver - PT 🍲 Kitchen Aide/Driver - PT Looking forward to welcoming new team members ASAP...please apply today at hr@mowyolo.org!

We're hiring Food Services positions so new they're not yet on our website (but coming very soon), and they all pay $20/hour+!  Visit Meals on Wheels Yolo County for more details at the YoloWorks Yolo County Job Fair at the West Sacramento Community Center, Thursday, October 24, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Can't make it? Check back soon at https://lnkd.in/dqcc2J8a or email hr@mowyolo.org. YOU may be our next heroic MOW Yolo team member! https://lnkd.in/dynybSZ5

This week marked Meals on Wheels Yolo County County's first-ever meal deliveries to migrant centers in the county, and we are grateful for our impactful partnership with Yolo County Housing Authority (YCH) that made it possible. Now through October when the season ends, senior residents of both the Madison and Davis Migrants Centers (operated by YCH) can count upon weekly deliveries of five nutritious, freshly-prepared, frozen meals, some featuring the very local foods that they and their families work to harvest. YCH Housing Specialist Maria Pena shares how deeply meaningful this is to her and to the senior migrant center residents: "Hard workers, like my father who was a farm worker, often put in long hours. These families are my roots, and I consider them my family. They come home exhausted with little time or energy to cook and share with their loved ones. Meals on Wheels Yolo County is a huge help, easing their worries about the next meal and benefiting them economically by saving them money." A recent food security survey by Yolo Food Bank illuminated the ironic instability of dependable food access for farmworkers as the most challenging in the county. When paired with the special hurdles seniors in any part of Yolo County often face connecting with healthy meals regularly, the crisis is clear. MOW Yolo is honored to now nourish these aging adults as part of our #eatwellagewell commitment to equity. Please consider joining us at www.mowyolo.org to support these hardworking individuals and their families, who are the backbone of our local economy! And, if you or a friend or loved one is a migrant center resident or living elsewhere in rural or urban Yolo County and could benefit from MOW Yolo services, please reach out at welcome@mowyolo.org or 530-662-7035.

When the guest of honor chooses to honor YOU on his birthday, it's the beginning of a truly meaningful and memorable celebration! Please join us for Yolo County Supervisor Lucas Frerichs 45th birthday "Party With a Purpose" on Thursday, June 27 at SUDWERK BREWING CO. All proceeds benefit Meals on Wheels Yolo County and donation and sponsorship options + other details are available at https://lnkd.in/dnHnQ4m2 or https://lnkd.in/dTsGUKzU MOW Yolo is so grateful to be selected as the first nonprofit to benefit from this new Yolo County tradition, and we're looking forward to sharing it with Lucas, his team and the entire community! 🥳🎂🎉

🌟 Celebrating Older Americans Month:  Meals on Wheels Yolo County Wheels Yolo County and our impactful partners at Agency on Aging Area 4 4! 🎉 This year's Older Americans Month theme, “Powered by Connection,” highlights the vital role of meaningful relationships in supporting independence and aging in place. 🤝 Let's join hands to combat isolation and loneliness together, one meal at a time!  Please visit MOW Yolo anytime at www.mowyolo.org 🥗💖 #EatWellAgeWell #OlderAmericansMonth #PoweredByConnection #MealsOnWheels #AgencyOnAging

What an inspiring celebration of the Big Day of Giving last week, accepting a $2,000 grant from West Sacramento Foundation at their event honoring all 2024 grant recipients and offering the opportunity to thank their generous all-volunteer Board personally! Meals on Wheels Yolo County Board member Tammy Linker (left) of West Sacramento and Donor Experience Officer Hollie Malamud (right) offered their deep gratitude 🫶. MOW Yolo will use these funds to bring #CafeYolo Social Dining to aging adults in West Sacramento again by this summer, so important to alleviating loneliness and supporting food security amongst often isolated seniors in the community. Look for an announcement with more details soon! Encouraged to join the West Sacramento Foundation in supporting MOW Yolo, or in need of senior nutrition and engagement services for yourself or a loved one? Please visit www.mowyolo.org to learn more.

More seniors will #EatWellAgeWell thanks to your #BDOG2024 Big Day of Giving generosity, Yolo County…the Meals on Wheels Yolo County Board, staff, and meal recipients deeply THANK YOU! In the words of our Executive Director Joy Cohan: "In a time of increasing discord in our world, hot meals and social contact for vulnerable seniors are priorities upon which we all can agree. MOW Yolo is honored to carry out this mission, providing safety for aging adults, and donor confidence that their investments make human lives better in Yolo County — our own, sweet corner of the world. I am deeply grateful for these gifts!”

On a busy Wednesday last week, MOW Yolo shared time in our Woodland meal production facility with honored guests! - Kayla Rodriguez, Government Affairs and Community Relations Manager – Inland Region for Recology, posed with the MOW Yolo team and one of our new temperature-controlled vehicles. This followed an illuminating conversation about the partnership potential to ensure that more seniors' meal trays are recycled, and the possible introduction of compostable options! Kayla is second from left, joined by, left-to-right, MOW Yolo Food Services Manager Michele Long, Executive Director Joy Cohan, Donor Experience Officer Hollie Malamud, Food Services Manager Carissa Brown, and Food Services Director Zea Davis. - Davis City Social Services Commissioner Justine Villanueva ( not pictured) assisted food services staff to seal a meal for delivery to a local senior using the Oliver Meal Packaging machine. Justine's visit was prompted by a Community Development Block Grant awarded to MOW Yolo this fiscal year by Davis City to partially offset expenses to nourish vulnerable seniors in the community. - Yolo County Administrator Gerardo Pinedo and Supervisor Angel Barajas listened intently as MOW Yolo Food Services Director Zea Davis described routines and requirements related to safe and sanitary operations of our institutional meal production facilities. The officials were accompanied by other county staff members (such as David Moreno, deputy to Supervisor Mary Vixie Sandy) on a quest to learn more about how a potential program to assist street vendors with licensing and permitting for appropriate food handling might take form in collaboration with MOW Yolo. Are YOU interested to see and experience the heart of MOW Yolo first-hand, as well? Join us for a tour of our Woodland or Winters meal production facilities! Reach out to Hollie at hollie@mowyolo.org or 530-662-7035 to schedule, or visit us anytime to partner, donate, volunteer, or connect with meals for yourself or a senior you care about at www.mowyolo.org #eatwellagewell #mowyolo #woodlandca #volunteer #donate #visit

"You're helping to keep me alive." Could there be more poignant words uttered by a local, struggling senior? These words from seniors on his #WestSacramento meal delivery route inspire Davisite Mitchell Heller, a recent retiree, as he enters his second year as a weekly Meals on Wheels Yolo County volunteer meal delivery driver, providing nutritious meals and social contact to food insecure seniors in this still underserved community. In this second week of #VolunteerAppreciationMonth, we honor his commitment! "I see seniors in trailer parks, motels and transitional housing, independent living retirement communities, and traditional residences. There was an urgent need for my volunteer time in West Sacramento, and it's only a 15 minute drive from my home in South Davis. I'm getting to know communities very different than mine, but so close by. We live in silos and often don’t have a good perspective on what the rest of the world looks like and a better understanding of how others live. I feel like I'm helping people to live independently longer, and with the human contact that too many seniors don't get enough of. The seniors on my route and I share stories, I look forward to seeing them every week, and I think they look forward to seeing me, as well. I think of them as friends." Mitchell is a hero, and he'll be joined by hundreds of other amazing MOW Yolo donors of time and funds at next Thursday's 2nd annual "Driven To Be Heroes"🦸🦸♂️ Donor and Volunteer Recognition Celebration. Will you join us in the celebration in Downtown Woodland's Heritage Plaza? See the details below; no RSVP is required. Prefer to recognize these heroes with your own donation of time or funds? Please learn more by clicking here: www.mowyolo.org #Volunteer #Recognition #mowyolo #GoodDeeds #HelpYourCommunity #NonProfit