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Interfaith Health and Support Services Receives Causeway’s Vehicle Donation By Kathi Cheeseman With the celebration of The Causeway Family of Dealerships’ 50th anniversary concluded, we continue with a new yearlong campaign - “CauseWheels” Vehicle Donation Program - to help our neighbors and positively impact Ocean County. At the end of 2019, Causeway had two requests for vehicle donations to local non-profit organizations. We were able to accommodate each of these requests. This prompted an idea to follow up last year’s 50th Anniversary Grant program. Anchoring this campaign is the CauseWheels vehicle donation program, through which Causeway will award a used vehicle to one Ocean County nonprofit every month, from February through December of 2020. Due to Covid-19 we had to postpone our April and May winners. To recap, our February winner was Main Street Alliance Church and our March winner was 21 Plus, Inc.! We are proud to announce our June Winner, Interfaith
Health and Support Services of Southern Ocean County! After 22 years serving seniors and the most vulnerable in our area, Interfaith Health and Support Services of Southern Ocean County is happy to announce a new program, “Ride for Health,” an expansion of their popular transportation service. Through the generosity of the Causeway Family of Dealerships and the OceanFirst Foundation, Interfaith now has their own van that will be used to bring seniors to their medical appointments and to area senior centers for a midday meal and group activities. Interfaith is a nonprofit senior service organization supported by 23 different faith-based communities and HackensackMeridian Health that provides assistance to the vulnerable aged or disabled residents of Southern Ocean County who are living at home. Interfaith volunteers drive seniors to their medical appointments, do grocery shopping for them and make friendly visits and reassurance calls to people who live alone or have limited options for transportation. In 2019,
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Editor: Joe Stroffolino Assistant Editor: Kaitlyn Strohmeier Publisher: Melissa Hill Creative/Comp: Keith Stewart, Amber Leto, Theresa Maye, Andy Rosenthal Marketing: Bryan Whelan © 2020. All rights reserved.
(From left to right) -David Wintrode General Manager, Chris Varner Used Vehicle Merchandising Manager, Corey Gellis General Sales Manager, Eileen Dolan, R.N.- IHSS Board Member, Kathy Durante OceanFirst Foundation Director, Dave Wintrode President of Causeway Family of Dealerships, Marie Logue, PhD- IHSS vice president, Philip Bakelaar, PhD- IHSS Board Member, Kathi Cheeseman -IHSS Director, Joe Stroffolino Director of Advertising and Marketing, and Michele Morrison, MPH, BSHA, RN- Chief Hospital Executive Hackensack Meridian Southern Ocean Medical Center.
Interfaith’s 275 volunteers served over 500 people free of charge. As the needs of our seniors have increased, Interfaith has expanded its services to include Alzheimer’s Respite Care, pet therapy and distribution of donated medical equipment. Now the “CauseWheels” Vehicle Donation Program will make it possible for more frail seniors to access the services at our area senior centers as well as get to their medical visits and treatments. Ride for Health is sure to improve the quality of life of the frail elderly in Southern Ocean County.
During this unprecedented pandemic, Interfaith continued to serve our community by providing transportation to vital non-emergency medical appointments plus food and prescriptions delivery to our most isolated seniors and at-risk residents. IHSS was selected by OceanFirst, The Grunin Foundation and Townsquare Media for their “Acts of Kindness” recognition program for going above and beyond to help the community’s neighbors as COVID-19 has its impact. Because of the COVID-19, crisis Interfaith has experienced an
increase in requests for food from local food pantries. This van will also help meet multiple residents’ requests for food and prescription delivery. IHSS is deeply grateful to OceanFirst, Causeway Family of Dealership, & Hackensack Meridian Health for their continued support of community and local nonprofits. It is with faith in your continued dedication to the people of Southern Ocean County that we can continue to provide this much-needed service. Thank you for helping us so we can help them.
What do New Jerseyans want to do first when life is ‘normal’? We do not know when life will return to normal in the Garden State, or even a “new normal” as Gov. Phil Murphy has been fond of saying, but what New Jerseyans most want to do as soon as that happens is to see and interact normally with friends and family, according to the latest Rutgers-Eagleton Poll. “It’s really all about getting to hug or kiss a loved one, craving that kind of human connection with friends and with family members, that New Jerseyans and I’m sure citizens across the entire country really miss,” said Ashley Koning, director of the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling at Rutgers University. In the survey of more than 1,500 New Jersey adults taken from late April to early May, 20% said the first “normal” thing they would do is reconnect with loved ones. About 1 in 6 responded either “go to a different place” (17%) or “do a different activity” (16%), and just over 1 in 10 (12%) said they would first want to go out to eat. Some of those options are now becoming possible. Gov. Phil Murphy lifted New Jersey’s stay-at-home order on Tuesday, and restaurants will be able to offer outdoor dining starting Monday.
As for other types of activities, Murphy’s expansion of indoor gathering limits, also announced Tuesday, was designed to give a green light to the resumption of worship services. New Jersey beaches were allowed to open for the summer as of Memorial Day weekend, albeit also with limited capacity. “New Jerseyans simply want to do things like go to the beach, they want to take a vacation, they want to go to the park or go to church, they want a haircut or to go to the gym,” Koning said. The reopening of gyms and health clubs will also be part of Stage 2 of New Jersey’s recovery strategy, but Murphy has not yet specified a target date for those businesses. Salons and barbershops (including nail salons, something Murphy clarified on Tuesday) are reopening Monday, June 22. Coming in a distant fifth in the survey was getting back to work (7%), although Koning said those numbers were unsurprisingly elevated in several demographic groups.
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