Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Helping Hands group

[Alicia George (ajgeorge]

We have folks who coordinate what we call TLC @ TVC (where “TLC" stands for 
Tender Loving Care and “TVC” is how we refer to Takoma Village Cohousing). We 
have 43 households.

Those in charge of TLC @ TVC coordinate the provision of meals for families 
with new babies and people who are recovering from an injury, serious illness, 
or hospitalization. This is part of our effort to provide support to one 
another, but also allows for the support to be orderly so four casserole aren’t 
delivered on the same day. Lately we have been using the Meal Train 
<https://www.mealtrain.com/> app for this.

Other needs (for a ride to an appointment, for childcare, for picking up a 
prescription, etc.) are handled by the requestor posting a message on our 
internal email list, to which many people usually respond. This cuts out the 
middle man and allows for a quick response by those who are available at the 
time needed.

Alicia
Takoma Village Cohousing
Washington, DC