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UCC-related Angelus Plaza, the nation’s largest affordable housing community, will be featured in the season finale of CBS’ The Amazing Race, where contestants will bungee leap off the downtown Los Angeles skyscraper. The episode will air on Friday, May 13, at 8 p.m. (ET). Angelus Plaza, located in the heart of downtown Los Angeles’ historic…
Read MoreArchway Housing and Services/Archway Investment Corporation recently broke ground on 40 West Residences, a new affordable housing development located in Lakewood, Colorado. Located near the “gateway” to Lakewood, 40 West Residences is sited on the busiest transit corridor in Colorado, Colfax Avenue and is a half-mile from the Lamar Street Station and the W-Line, connecting…
Read MoreRHF’s Sagetree Terrace, the last new construction project in Houston funded by the HUD 202 program, broke ground on March 2 with a ceremony and celebration held on the project site. Sagetree Terrace will be a HUD 202 and Tax Credit community for older adults with 64 apartments. Sixty of the units will be funded…
Read MoreAdvocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center has been recognized as a “Leader in LGBT Health care Equality” by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, the educational arm of the country’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization. The findings were part of HRC Foundation’s Health care Equality Index 2016, a unique annual survey…
Read MoreLeaders from Deaconess Foundation and more than 40 other organizations announced in February that they have “banned the box” by adopting fair chance hiring policies or ensuring that questions about criminal convictions do not appear on applications for employment with their foundations. They also issued a challenge to all U.S. philanthropic institutions to follow suit…
Read MoreWhen Beatitudes Campus opened its doors for a theologian to move in this January, it also opened the doors to a new way of addressing individual needs. Dr. Harvey Cox, an American Baptist minister and acclaimed research professor at Harvard Divinity School, spent a month as the Phoenix continuing care retirement community’s first theologian-in-residence. In…
Read MoreThe HealthCare Chaplaincy Network recently announced the launch of the Spiritual Care Association, the first multidisciplinary, international professional membership association for spiritual care providers that establishes evidence-based quality indicators, scope of practice, and a knowledge base for spiritual care in health care. The nonprofit SCA is an affiliate of HealthCare Chaplaincy Network, a health care…
Read MoreThree years ago, California saw some of its driest days. As lake beds sat empty, animals faced endangerment and water supply dwindled, residents at Pilgrim Place in Claremont, California, took action. “Our driving force is the commitment of residents to live more sustainably with greater environmental consciousness and lower carbon impact because of our shared…
Read MoreBy Loey Powell Since last July, I have had the honor and privilege of dipping my toe into the sacred waters known as the Council for Health and Human Service Ministries as a part-time staff person. I say “dipping my toe” because one of my realizations is just how deep and wide the waters flow…
Read MoreAfter a bad fall left her with a broken hip, Evelyn Smith turned to Phoebe Ministries for rehabilitation. Between the pain and dementia-related challenges, it was often hard for Smith to leave her bed, let alone engage in the therapy she needed to heal. Leaders at Phoebe, a senior housing and health care provider based in…
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Emmaus Launches Advocacy Think Tank - CHHSM
On June 18, Emmaus Homes in St. Louis launched the Emmaus Advocacy Think Tank. This is a group of internal staff, clients, and more, as well as self-advocates and professionals from other organization...