Welcome to the Club - Volume 1, Issue 1

Welcome to ...
THE Club
Laughter is the best medicine - here’s to your health.
Welcome to ...
Winter 2021
Volunteer Opportunities
Transportation • Home Maintenance
Meals on Wheels • The Peer Program
Friendly Visiting • Fitness Classes
Diners Club • Bingo
Due to COVID-19, volunteer
opportunities are limited. Please call
the office for more information.
How We Can Help You Live at Home
• Transportation: Accessible for Mobility Issues (Wheelchair/Scooter/Walker).
• Non-Urgent Stretcher Van: Designed specifically for stable, non-urgent
transportation requiring a stretcher.
• Meals on Wheels: Frozen or Hot meals delivered to your door throughout the rural
County.
• Home Maintenance: Lawn Cutting, Snow Removal/call the office for more services.
• The Peer Program: An interactive program designed by seniors for seniors.
• Care Giver Respite Support: Provides in-home relief for family and friends from their
caregiving role.
• Personal Care: Assistance with personal care needs of daily living including mobility
assistance, bathing, and medication reminders.
• Home Help: Light housekeeping and errands.
• Crisis Intervention: Social Workers assist with crisis or abusive situations.
• House Support: Social Workers assist with housing
support for low income at-risk seniors.
• Friendly Visiting: Volunteers provide
regular visits to those living
alone and have no family. ON
HOLD
• Diners Club: Seniors luncheon
with entertainment. ON HOLD
Fun Facts!
LEO’s Volunteers are instrumental to our success. In 2019, over 121 volunteers
contributed 4,844 hours of their valuable time. Without our volunteers, we could not
continue to provide all our programs. Last year, LEO provided 73,698 services to 2,174
clients! Let’s break that down.
• 6,629 Meals on Wheels were delivered
• In 2020, due to COVID-19, deliveries increased from 358 per month to over 7,500
PER Month!
• 29,213 Stretcher Van, Accessible Van and Volunteer Transportation services
• Personal Client Support 21,611 services
• Home Maintenance provided 3,471 services
• Housing and Client Intervention Support 2793 services
• 600 Diners Club Meals
• 5,872 Fitness Classes
LEO Scored 98% Exemplary Standing
for providing Quality Services
Funded in part by the United Way of Sarnia-Lambton
and Jackpot City, Sarnia
Become a Volunteer
LEO’s annual costs to provide clients
services is dependent on Fundraising,
bequests, grants and donations.
FundScrip is an excellent way to help
support us through our Fundraising
efforts. FundScrip is Gift Card website
where companies donate a
percentage of your sale to LEO as a
fundraiser and the best news is, it
doesn’t even come out of your pocket!
Go to www.fundscrip.com and use
the invitation code DFU33D.
Lambton Elderly
Outreach is proud to
announce that we
have been
Accredited with
Exemplary Standing
under the Qmentum
Accreditation i Program which
demonstrates LEO’s commitment to
providing safe, high quality health
services to its clients. The principles of
accreditation and ongoing quality
improvement are integrated into our
daily operations and services to our
clients throughout Sarnia-Lambton and
Chatham-Kent counties.
This milestone is one to be celebrated for
not only the benefit of our clients, but
also for the hard work and dedication of
the LEO staff. Congratulations to all who
worked so hard throughout this journey
and our continued success.
Lambton Elderly Outreach • 1-800-265-0203 • www.lambtonelderlyoutreach.org
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Our bottom borders for this issue are Irish Proverbs, in advance of St. Patrick’s Day.