Metrocrest Services: Meeting Big Needs in Real Time
Metrocrest Services’ story of disaster relief is one of community. Standing partnerships with North Texas Food Bank, Denton Creek Farms, Denton County Commissioners Court, and the City of Carrollton among others allowed them to scale and mobilize their relief efforts quickly. Their efforts started early in the week before the storm hit when news of the incoming weather began to gain traction. The pre-pandemic food assistance needs averaged at 40 families per day. Their new normal during COVID-19 is closer to 250 families per day. At the height of the pandemic need, last summer and this past week during storm recovery that number jumped to an average of 400 families per day. In the first two days alone following the storms last week they fed 900 families.