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Adapting supports: a peek inside our Woodstock programs

  • Last updated: 2 years ago

The varying stages of lockdown and restrictions due to COVID-19 impacted tenants’ mental health and, for some, struggles with substance use. Like all Indwell programs, Woodstock’s Blossom Park and Harvey Woods Lofts communities implemented changes to ensure tenant and staff safety while still encouraging connection.

Tenants work with staff Lorna Murray at a counter in Blossom Park kitchen - creating preserves for a social enterprise, Gather - 2020
Tenants working with Lorna Murray, Household Administrator (right), learning to preserve produce at Woodstock’s Blossom Park apartments. Project made possible through Community Futures Oxford Grant.

These changes, some of which were temporary based on current restrictions, included:

  • Moving from communal dinners to daily meal delivery

  • Educating on COVID-19 through one-on-one conversations and improved signage

  • Launching a tenant Facebook group to encourage digital connection

  • Providing cell phones and phone cards to tenants where needed, thanks to a grant from Oxford Community Foundation

  • Updating technology to ensure good options for connecting with supports

  • Offering grocery delivery

  • Restarting some group mental health activities with screening, physical distancing, etc.

  • Offering weekly “drive through” coffee time for tenants to connect with staff

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