{"id":13929,"date":"2024-12-11T09:07:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T14:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/?p=13929"},"modified":"2024-12-11T09:07:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T14:07:13","slug":"food-drive-for-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/food-drive-for-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Drive for The Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Help Social Services provide Holiday Goodness to those less Fortunate this Year!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13930\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/holiday_basket_donations_flyer_2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"816\" height=\"1056\" \/><\/p>\n<header class=\"panel-pane region-page-title\">\n<h1 class=\"page-title\">Social Services<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"panel-pane pane-node-content\">\n<div class=\"pane-inner clearfix\">\n<div class=\"pane-content\">\n<article class=\"node-19 node node-department clearfix\" role=\"article\">\n<header><\/header>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<section class=\"field field-name-field-description field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<h2>About Us<\/h2>\n<p>The East Windsor\u00a0Social Services Department is housed in the Annex of the Warehouse Point section of East Windsor. The department is comprised of an\u00a0Administrative Assistant\/Intake Assistant, a\u00a0Social Service Aide, and is overseen by the Director of Recreation &amp;\u00a0Community Services.<\/p>\n<p>The Social Services Department provides social, emotional and economic assistance to\u00a0East Windsor residents.\u00a0Our staff assesses\u00a0the need of families and individuals of all ages\u00a0and\u00a0provides corresponding\u00a0programs\u00a0and services, helping them to attain self-sufficiency and maintain economic well-being.<\/p>\n<p>In our office, we\u00a0are directly responsible for administering the Energy Assistance and Renters&#8217; Rebate programs. We offer many other programs\u00a0throughout the year such as:\u00a0Back to School Backpacks, Powerpacks for Elementary School children, Farmer&#8217;s Market Coupons, Holiday Baskets, and the\u00a0Holiday Adopt a Family Program. We collaborate with several outside agencies including Operation Fuel, VNA, Salvation Army, Five Corner Cupboard, and Pauline&#8217;s Stock Pot, as well as local business and civic organizations.\u00a0Our office\u00a0also provides information about and\u00a0contacts for State, Legal, and Financial Agencies such as: SNAP (formerly Food Stamps), Husky Health, and Care 4 Kids.<\/p>\n<p>To Know More Please Visit<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastwindsor-ct.gov\/social-services\">https:\/\/www.eastwindsor-ct.gov\/social-services<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Help Social Services provide Holiday Goodness to those less Fortunate  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":true,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13931,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13929\/revisions\/13931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}