Meal delivery programs prepare and deliver nutritious meals to older adults and people with disabilities who are unable to make the food for themselves or travel to a meal site.

Provides hot, nutritious noon meals

Meals are delivered by volunteers. Meals are delivered five days a week.

Also provides nutritional counseling if needed and information and referral.

Learn more about this service when paid for under the waivers, the Alternative Care Program, and the Essential Community Supports program in the Community-Based Services Manual.

Eligibility
To receive this service under the Alternative Care (AC), Essential Community Supports (ECS) and Elderly Waiver (EW) programs:
* The person must have an assessed need for the service that is documented in their support plan
* The service must be the most cost-effective method to provide the person with a nutritionally balanced meal

To receive this service under the Brain Injury (BI), Community Access for Disability Inclusion (CADI), Community Alternative Care (CAC) and Developmental Disabilities (DD) waivers:
* The person must be age 18 or older
* The person must be unable to prepare their own meals due to their disability
* The person must have an assessed need for the service that is documented in their support plan
* The service must be the most cost-effective method to provide the person with a nutritionally balanced meal
* No one else is available to prepare the meals

If you have waiver funding, the support plan (based on an assessment of your needs) determines which services are funded through your waiver.

Delivers hot noon time meals Monday - Friday to residents in Cannon Falls, Faribault, Goodhue, Bellechester, Mazeppa, Pine Island, Wabasha, Wanamingo, and Zumbrota.

• Organization Type
  • Community Action Partnership 
• Payment
  • Alternative Care Waiver (AC) 
  • Brain Injury Waiver (BI) 
  • Community Access for Disability Inclusion Waiver (CADI) 
  • Community Alternative Care (CAC) Waiver 
  • Developmental Disabilities Waiver (DD) 
  • Elderly Waiver (EW) 
  • Essential Community Supports (ECS) 
  • Title III 

People 60 years of age or older who are unable to prepare meals or drive for groceries and disabled or terminally ill persons under 60 years of age

Community Service Area: Cannon Falls, Faribault, Goodhue, Mazeppa, Pine Island, Wabasha, Wanamingo, and Zumbrota

Recipients 60 and older are asked to make a donation towards the cost of the meal.
Suggested donations for meal recipients over 60 are $4.50/meal. Under 60 are $7.00/meal.

8:00am - 4:00pm, Monday - Friday

Goodhue County

https://threeriverscap.org/older-adults/meals-on-wheels

https://www.threeriverscap.org

6/29/2022