COVID-19 Update: This Week at CCEH
This quick newsletter is to keep you up-to-date with the latest new developments at CCEH as we navigate safely serving our guests during the COVID-19 crisis:

  • Porta potties and hand-washing station installed on Monday and ready for guests to use downtown at CenterPoint Church! Thank you CenterPoint for volunteering your parking lot!
  • CCEH arranged for a hand-washing station to be installed at Friendly Kitchen on Monday for guests to use when picking up to-go meals.
  • Staff and one of our volunteers, Lorna, are (safely) serving made-to-order hot coffee to our guests one at a time at our new outdoor Resource Center.
  • Volunteers are donating individual packaged snacks and goodie bags to hand out to guests.
  • The Resource Center continues to be open Mon/Wed/Fri from 9-11AM for guests to pick up their mail, meet with our Case Management team, get supplies (masks, hand sanitizer refills, other hygiene products) and find out the latest COVID-19 news and resources available to them.
  • Our Housing First Specialist is assisting CCEH's housed clients by providing them masks and COVID-19 guidance and information, as well as helping with their IRS stimulus checks.
  • Every day, CCEH is reaching out to local and statewide homeless services providers and government agencies to collaborate and brainstorm best practices for serving the community's needs during these trying times. Click here for an article that was published in the Concord Monitor from Saturday, April 18th.
Coffee & Snacks are Back
We are back to serving coffee to guests, made to order, outside the Shelter under the Resource Center tent. Also, any packaged donated snacks are given out to guests.
Restrooms & Hand-washing Downtown
CenterPoint Church (20 N. State St.) in Concord volunteered their parking lot as a location for porta john's and a hand-washing station which we were able to install on Monday.

Donations of Handmade Masks
Volunteers continue to drop off handmade cloth masks for our guests to take. These come from individuals and organizations like the Women's Club of Concord. We are limiting what we accept, as we want to only take what we can distribute each week, and leave supply for other organizations in the Community.
Concord Coalition to End Homelessness