A lot of the support provided is considered essential and will therefore continue throughout a lockdown.
Vivid chief executive Scott Alexander said all their services are still running and the intention is to maintain that.
“We are not going to abandon people, we will continue to find a way to deliver those services,” he said.
“We have a cohort of clients who are vulnerable due to additional conditions making them more at risk if infected, we have additional risk assessments and find their family or carers are aware of that and some have elected to withdraw from services.”
Some support is provided in people's homes so extra precautions have been put in place including a health questionnaire completed by both staff and clients.
Vivid is providing daily updates on their website with the status of their services and are reassuring people that they are there for them.
“Our intention is to always be present in terms of offering services, we intend in whatever circumstances to do that, there will still be people who need us and can't live without the service we provide,” Scott said.
Community Living & Respite Services chief executive Leah Taaffe said they are providing the vast majority of their services and will continue to.
“A decent number of our clients fit into the high-risk category, either because of age, immunosuppression or another reason, we did a lot of work in identifying them and our staff will wear personal protective equipment including gloves, aprons and booties where necessary to try to reduce the risk of clients catching something from staff,” she said.
“We have started accessing supplies of personal protective equipment privately as it's not provided through the government, we are advocating through our peak body and local member to enable us to get access of government stock.
“We have procedures in place if a client becomes infected, they may still need services delivered, if we don't they will end up in hospital and we would like to support the efforts to reduce the strain on Echuca Regional Health and our local health system in general.
“If people are worried or concerned or want to change or add services they can contact their team leader, our website also has a COVID-19 page updating any changes of services, it's the best place to go if people have questions.”
CLRS closed the Murray River Tea Rooms and the Number 4 Op Shop in line with the directives from the government.