Got masks? These ladies have you covered.

June 26, 2020

Fort Pierce –

Communities Connected for Kids would like to thank the Ocean Village Sewing Circle for its very generous donation of 200 hand-crafted cloth masks.

The Fort Pierce group has made 6,000 masks for health care professionals and other groups throughout the community during the state's COVID-19 state of emergency and recently reached out to CCKids to see if there was a need for masks among local child-welfare professionals.

Social workers and other child-welfare professionals have been deemed essential workers by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and, despite most work being adapted to video conferencing, many of them - especially case managers - must sometimes interact in person with the families and children on their caseloads.

The cloth masks are particularly helpful as a supplement to one-use-only disposable masks that will be needed by front-line workers.

"We can give these to our administrative staff and save more of the disposable masks for case managers and others who may have more interaction with the community," said Christina Kaiser, CCKids community relations director.