Our Services
Project Homecoming
Coming home from the hospital can be overwhelming. Project Homecoming helps make the transition easier with five free, nutritious meals delivered right to your door. Let Coal Creek Meals on Wheels support your recovery so you can focus on resting, healing, and settling back in at home.
Coal Creek Café
Join us for lunch at our onsite weekday café! Enjoy a nutritious meal in a welcoming space while connecting with neighbors and other community members. Everyone is welcome to stop by, share a meal, and be part of the Coal Creek Meals on Wheels community. Vegetarian, allergen free, and salad options are always available.
Plates
for Pets
Did you know Coal Creek Meals on Wheels supports pets, too? For clients receiving meal deliveries, we can also provide food for companion animals. Plates for Pets helps keep beloved pets healthy and fed, while allowing clients to continue caring for the animals who bring them comfort, companionship, and joy.
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Kids Summer Meals
When school is out, many children lose access to the reliable, nutritious meals they receive during the school year. To help fill that gap, families can receive up to 90 days of free summer meals for children. This program helps ensure kids have the nourishment they need to stay healthy, active, and ready to learn when school begins again.
Meal Delivery Program
We deliver hot, fresh, nutritious meals every weekday directly to your home in the communities of Lafayette, Louisville, Superior, and Erie. Our delicious meals are made from scratch daily by our talented culinary staff and can be customized to meet your special dietary needs. We serve anyone in need of a hot meal and daily well-check regardless of age or income.
Who is eligible?
CCMOW serves anyone in need of a hot meal and daily well-check regardless of age or income, or documentation status. We serve older adults, people living with disabilities or chronic physical and cognitive illnesses, low-income families, and anyone else in need.
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Meal Delivery Schedule
Meals are delivered Monday through Friday between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. by an amazing screened, trained, and trusted CCMOW volunteer.
Each meal includes an entrée, vegetable, carbohydrate, salad and fruit or dessert. We are equipped to meet your specialized dietary or medical restrictions, too. Frozen and fresh items are delivered on Fridays for the weekend upon request. Caring delivery volunteers provide clients with social interaction to combat isolation.
Now Offering Salads!
CCMOW is now offering a choice between the scheduled hot meal and a chef's salad! If interested, clients must contact the office and let them know what day(s) they would like their meal replaced with a salad no later than Friday for the following week. Salads will still include accommodations for dietary restrictions.
Cost
Sliding scale based on self-reported monthly income and household size.
Project Homecoming
Let CCMOW make your transition back home after a hospital stay easier, with five free delicious and nutritious meals delivered to your home by a caring CCMOW volunteer!
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Who is eligible?
Anyone, regardless of age, documentation status and income-level, who is living in Boulder County is eligible to receive five free meals delivered to their home after being released from the hospital for any reason (i.e. childbirth, an accident, surgery, or illness).
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Cost
This service is free for five days. Clients have the option to extend meal delivery services beyond the first five days. The price of each meal is based on a sliding fee scale based on the client's monthly income.
Coal Creek Café
Coal Creek Cafe, our onsite Congregate Meal Program, is sponsored in part by the City of Lafayette as its Senior Nutrition Program. Monday through Friday, CCMOW provides onsite meals in a congregate cafe-style setting at Josephine Commons. This program provides high-quality, nutrient-dense meals for diners as well as essential daily social interaction between Josephine Commons residents, members from the community, and the CCMOW kitchen staff and volunteers.
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Coal Creek Café Hours
Monday through Friday
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
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Who we serve
All community members are welcome to enjoy a meal at the Coal Creek Café!
Cost
​A suggested donation of $3.50 per meal - however, we will never turn anyone away for an inability to pay.
Plates for Pets
Made possible by our partnership with Colorado Pet Pantry, Plates for Pets provides food to our neighbors' companion animals. It has been demonstrated that pets reduce stress, lower blood pressure, increase social interaction, promote physical activity, and can reduce feelings of depression and loneliness. The program helps ensure that our homebound clients are not forced to give up their pets because of an inability to feed them.​
​How to Donate Pet Food
Visit the Colorado Pet Pantry website to learn more about donating pet food.
Kids Summer Meals Program
According to Hunger Free Colorado, public schools throughout Colorado currently provide more than 600,000 meals to students every day.
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During the summer, many families who rely on school meals face uncertainty.
To fill this gap, families can sign up to receive 90 days of free home-delivered meals for their children over the summer.
Grab and Go Meals
Coal Creek Meals on Wheels is partnering with the Lafayette Public Library, Erie Food Bank, Sister Carmen Community Center, Broomfield FISH, and TGTHR To End Youth Homelessness to distribute meals through a Grab & Go system.
At the Lafayette Library, hot, ready-to-eat meals are distributed Monday-Friday between 11:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. Meals are available on a first come, first serve basis as limited amounts are available each day. To-go meals are also available at the Coal Creek Café Monday-Friday 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. if meals run out at the library.
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Anyone is eligible to receive a meal at the Lafayette Public Library. The meals are free and no information is collected. No sign-up is required - just show up at the library to receive your meal.​