Mahoning Matters covered ACTION’s work to provide meals for seniors.
Though Cultivate Cafe decided to close due to the COVID-19 pandemic, its manager Susan Payton and other cafe workers were on the line cooking 250 nutritious meals that were delivered to area seniors and their families Thursday afternoon.
Alliance for Congregational Transformation Influencing Our Neighborhoods, or ACTION, the community advocacy group founded by Rose Carter, put some of its three-year, $30,000 public health grant from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America toward distributing meals to those most vulnerable to the disease.
Janet Schueller, a dietitian who coordinates ACTION’s grant-funded Healthier You program, said this year’s funding was supposed to be put toward healthy nutrition programming like an interactive cooking class, but the onset of COVID-19 created a more urgent need.
