Quick links:
- Join the Mask-making brigade for VC health care workers (now at 4871!): here
- Volunteer opportunities, including those for healthcare workers, in Ventura County: here.
- Want to be part of the new Gown Brigade? Send your name, address, email and cell phone number to hcfvc@ventura.org
(Information below from Amy Towner, CEO – Health Care Foundation for Ventura County.)
Mask Brigade update.

We had 255 masks donated on Tuesday. Pictured here are some cute ones from Ventura County Probation Department’s Pamela Henderson. She said this was so much fun! Gina and I have done mass passing out of masks to essential workers throughout the county and it’s been fun to see some masks that you have made being sported all around the county. I am asking employees to thank you so I can post on social media, We can not let our guard down and we still need more masks so thank you for continuing to sew especially since we had 33 new cases as of tonight.
Gown Brigade update.
For those new to the Gown Brigade – Welcome! Today, we had our first drop off shipment at Gina’s. With 12,000 trash bags, that’s a lot of ironing. So glad we have an army of community sewing and ironing for our community safety. The message is clear, in Ventura County, we are not ok with sitting around not having basic PPE for healthcare or people. Our community has been extremely resourceful and not waiting around for others to fix the problem.
Attached are the instructions for making the hospital gown from plastic bags.
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