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Unleashing Potential’s Chief Program Officer Gloria Hampton recently was honored by the Missouri Afterschool Network with the Outstanding Afterschool Professional Award for her work with Unleashing Potential’s programs that focus on socio-emotional success and Science, Technology, Engineering, Cultural Arts and Math (STEAM) in diverse neighborhoods in St. Louis. The Outstanding Afterschool Professional award is presented to…
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Orion Family Services in Madison, Wis., values the importance of an organizational culture that reflects diversity, equity, and inclusion in operations, across staff, and in service delivery. In a demonstration of commitment to these values, Orion provides staff with paid time to be spent engaging in activities that involve or reflect diversity, equity, and inclusion…
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The Dottie Crim Adult Day and Education Center in Saline, Mich., which temporary closed in 2020 because of the Covid-19 pandemic, is ready to welcome back program participants. Housed in the Memory Support Center at EHM Senior Solutions’ Brecon Village, the Adult Day Center provides a secure environment with specially trained staff to offer daily…
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On December 29, 2022, Archway Communities, Inc. closed on financing for two dormitories at Mosaic Community Campus in Denver. Archway, a leader in providing quality affordable housing for Coloradans, has purchased four dormitory buildings at the former Johnson & Wales Campus in Denver’s Park Hill Neighborhood. Archway purchased the dormitories from Urban Land Conservancy (ULC),…
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Archway Communities recently announced the purchase of Montview Manor in Denver. The 13-story building, constructed in 1964, makes the 11th property in Archway’s portfolio. It serves older adults, 62-plus. Archway purchased the building from the Montview Building Corporation, an affiliate of Montview Presbyterian Church. Archway’s mission alignment and commitment to avoid displacing existing residents were…
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Unleashing Potential, based in St. Louis, recently received a Neighbors in Need (NIN) grant for $6,000 from the UCC’s Justice and Local Church Ministries. The funds will be used to support Unleashing Potential’s track record of academic and socio-emotional success, as well as to expand its Science, Technology, Engineering, Cultural Arts and Math (STEAM) programming.…
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The St. Louis Racial Healing + Justice Fund — co-created by CHHSM member Deaconess Foundation, Forward Through Ferguson, and Missouri Foundation for Health — announced in mid-December the distribution of five unrestricted, one-time crisis response grants of $16,000 each. The fund’s Community Governance Board (CGB) announced that the grants were awarded to The T/BRIC, Black Healers…
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By the Rev. Kenneth Daniel, president and CEO of United Church Homes. Reprinted with permission from the Ruth Frost Parker Center for Abundant Living of United Church Homes’ blog. Within a week of starting a seminary internship in Minneapolis, I was packed into a van with a youth group on an adventure to Ghost Ranch,…
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Catherine S. Smith was delighted to have spent 15 years as a resident at Abernethy Laurels, a continuing care community in Newton, N.C., and part of CHHSM member EveryAge‘s network of communities. Always sensitive to the needs of people less fortunate than herself, she was firm in her desire to direct a generous measure of…
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Tim Wetzel has been named the new president and CEO of Brewster Place, based in Topeka, Kan. He begins his new role March 6, 2023. “As a not-for-profit, faith-based senior living community founded by Topeka’s four Congregational churches in 1964, we are very pleased to find a leader of Tim’s caliber — who not only…
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The P.E.E.R.S. Advisory Council at Hoyleton Youth and Family Services recently was awarded a grant for $5,500 for the IDHS Healing Illinois Initiative. Funding for this initiative was made possible th...