Hello Community-

Due to increasing numbers of COVID-19 in Pierce County, Valeo has taken precautionary measures to practice social distancing. We are continuing to place participants on assignment, primarily using remote dispatch, to avoid potential transmission. We will continue to engage with participants, primarily over telecommunications or video messengers, such as Skype.

What this will mean for our community is that we will not be holding regular office hours and unable to take in-person meetings. However, we would still love to meet with your referrals and hope you will work with us to identify which platform would be most suitable for your participants. If they have smart phones, we would love to do video messaging! But good ol phone calls will work just as well.

I know this has a negative impact on the population we serve. We are doing everything we can to be creative in our interactions, allowing us to still match participants with jobs, while respecting the need for social distancing. We are open to any ideas you have and I would love to hear how other agencies are mitigating these very trying circumstances. Please let me know how you all are handling this!

Thanks so much-

Sherri Jensen (she/her/hers)

CEO, Valeo Vocation

1224 Tacoma Ave S, 98405

Office: 253-301-2134

Cell:253-691-2846

https://www.valeovocation.org

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