Spotlight on Our Community

FLAG Red Bank is providing meals sourced through local restaurants for our Front Line Professionals fighting COVID-19 including ER and ICU units at Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank and RWJSB in Long Branch. As well as all first responders in Red Bank including the Police, Fire, EMS, DPW & more.

For 31 years, HABcore has helped those in need by offering permanent, supportive housing. During this crisis, the population experiencing homelessness faces new and serious challenges. HABcore’s Boarding Home managers are on the front lines caring for residents with all the essentials. They have administered grants to provide emergency assistance for rent, bills, transportation, utilities and food to over 140 households in our community to date.

“It is our honor to advocate for the community in need and to be able to afford assistance to the many individuals and families that are suffering during this time.” Steve Heisman, HABcore Executive Director.

Over the course of the #COVID19 pandemic, Hackensack Meridian Health has treated more than 10,000 patients. Researchers from the health care network are now publishing in major journals, based on their experiences and expertise.

Our friends at JBJ Soul Kitchen Red Bank have been open for take-out for in-need community members throughout COVID-19. If you are struggling to feed yourself or your family, they are a resource to you. JBJ Soul Kitchen Red Bank is now open for outdoor dining.

While physically distanced, you can connect virtually to Jewish history and identity with Jewish Federation in the Heart of New Jersey.

Join them on their Virtual Travel Series which takes viewers from Israel to Poland to Morocco accompanied by veteran guides using Google Street View with music, text and pictures.

Even though performance venues, galleries and museums are closed, Monmouth Arts remains committed to connecting the community to the arts! Over the last several weeks, they have launched several new virtual programs and initiatives, including a weekly Teen Arts Virtual Showcase, ChalkTheWalkMonmouthArts, Exquisitely Connected, an online collaborative mural open to artists of any ability nationwide and their upcoming Roaming ArtHouse, an online art gallery (ArtSpace 105).

“Now is a great time for yoga, mindfulness, meditation and breath work to remind us to connect to our powerful tools within for a sense of calm, strength, balance and focus.”—Mary Ansell, founder

Although their Red Bank studio is currently closed, Open Heart Yoga is practicing yoga virtually every day. Text 732.859.6749 for a full schedule of their Zoom Yoga Sessions and a link to their one-hour flow you can practice anytime.

Open Heart Yoga is a nonprofit organization.

Visiting Nurse Association Health Group is providing home health care, hospice, visiting physicians and primary care for COVID-19 patients through home visits, testing of their employees and first responders as well as daily telehealth monitoring. VNA’s 2,200 nurses, therapists, physicians, social workers, bereavement counselors and more are healthcare heroes on the frontlines—helping to reduce hospital admissions at this critical time.

“We are so proud of our extrarodinary team, their skills, sense of duty, and courage doing these special visits!”