Latest News

Abernethy Laurels ‘Earn and Learn’ Certified Nursing Assistant Program Fills Staffing Gap

By CHHSM-Member Ministry Contribution | June 20, 2022

After experiencing two years of staffing challenges during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Abernethy Laurels Retirement Community, part of CHHSM member EveryAge, created “Earn and Learn,” an innovative solution to train and hire certified nursing assistants, the community’s frontline care providers. To date, 40 people have gone through the program and been certified. “During…

Read More

‘I Will Remember Being Held’: Essence Ellis Reflects on Her Year as UCC Fellow

By Barb Powell | June 13, 2022

As her year-long experience of being the inaugural UCC Fellow with the UCC’s Council for Health and Human Service Ministries (CHHSM) and Justice and Local Church Ministries (JLCM) comes to an end, Essence Ellis is in a unique position to reflect. Not only has her year as UCC Fellow taken her in unexpected, rewarding directions,…

Read More

UCAN Panel Highlights Difficulties Encountered at Intersectionality of Race in the LGBTQ+ Community

By Barb Powell | June 13, 2022

An important webinar sponsored by CHHSM member UCAN took place June 4 and delved into overcoming the obstacles persons of color in the LGBTQ+ community face daily. The event was introduced and closed by members of UCAN’s Pride Alliance Employee Resource Group. Pride Alliance works to educate, support, and advocate so UCAN employees are respected,…

Read More

CHHSM’s ‘Together We Learn’ Book Groups Create Safe Space to Discuss Race, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

By Barb Powell | June 13, 2022

On June 4, 2020, following its spring board meeting, the CHHSM board of directors released its Statement on the Pandemic of Systemic Racism. Among the many commitments the board made to help CHHSM become antiracist was the creation of a Zoom book study group. From that inauspicious beginning has grown a series of book groups…

Read More

‘Messages of Hope’ Brings Harvey’s Pandemic Sermons to Wider Audience

By Barb Powell | June 13, 2022

During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, in the midst of the Black Lives Matter Movement gaining prominence, the Rev. Dr. Sheila Harvey — pastor of Union Congregational UCC in West Palm Beach, Fla., and a CHHSM board member — found that many of her Sunday messages were having a profound effect on church…

Read More

Take a Stand

By CHHSM-Member Ministry Contribution | June 10, 2022

“Here I Stand” is a blog series of the Ruth Frost Parker Center for Abundant Aging of United Church Homes (UCH). Every eight weeks, the Parker Center blog writers meet via Zoom. From their conversation emerges a broad series theme, from which the writers author columns from their experiences and perspective. This first column in…

Read More

Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health to Combine to Create New Health and Wellness System

By CHHSM-Member Ministry Contribution | June 8, 2022

Advocate Aurora Health — based in Downers Grove, Ill., and Milwaukee, Wis. — and Atrium Health of Charlotte, N.C., announced in mid-May their plans to come together to create a leading health and wellness delivery system to best meet patients’ needs by redefining how, when and where care is delivered. The organizations cited their complementary…

Read More

Cedar Community Makes U. S. News List of Best Independent Living Communities

By CHHSM-Member Ministry Contribution | June 8, 2022

Cedar Community in West Bend, Wis., is one of the senior living communities recognized by U.S. News & World Report that earned “Best” status by achieving the highest possible rating for independent living. U.S. News awarded the 2022 designation of Best Senior Living only to those communities that satisfy U.S. News’s objective statistical assessment of…

Read More

Deaconess Nurse Ministry Foot Care Clinic Becomes Moment of Healing for Clients

By CHHSM-Member Ministry Contribution | June 8, 2022

A foot care clinic at the Trinity Episcopal food pantry in St. Louis provided a much-needed ministry for people experiences homelessness. The clients not only received expert foot care, but also loving care and a spiritual refresh, thanks to nurses from Deaconess Nurse Ministry (DNM), including the Rev. Donna Smith-Pupillo, RN, BSN, DNM’s executive director.…

Read More

Hoffman Homes for Youth Receives Nonprofit of Year Award

By CHHSM-Member Ministry Contribution | June 8, 2022

Hoffman Homes for Youth in Littlestown, Pa., recently received We were the Non-Profit of the Year award from the New Oxford Area Chamber of Commerce. The award was presented by Heather Laughman, chamber board member and owner of HD Entertainment, LLC. Laughman also is a Hoffman Homes donor and friend. “It has been an extremely…

Read More
Join Our Mailing LIst

"*" indicates required fields

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Follow on Facebook

Join CHHSM via livestream today at 5:15 p.m. ET for a special CHHSM Annual Gathering worship service coming from Old South UCC in Boston. This special service will include preaching by the Rev. Darrell Goodwin, executive conference minister of the UCC’s Southern New England Conference, and the consecration of this year’s Nollau Leadership Institute class as Diakonal Ministers. You won’t want to miss it! #BeAVoiceCHHSM Watch the livestream at ... See MoreSee Less
View on Facebook

Quick Links