December 2008
MEMBER
NEWS FOR THE WEEK OF
December 15, 2008
Grant Sows Seeds To More
Funds
A
grant provided by the Alliance’s
New Age of Aging
initiative helped Alliance member Personal & Family Counseling Services
of Tuscarawas Valley (PFCS)
in New Philadelphia, Ohio, secure additional funding for aging services.
The agency is a mentee in the New Age of Aging’s mentoring initiative,
and will use the new funds to extend case management outreach services
to older adults. Read the full
story.
MEMBER
NEWS FOR THE WEEK OF
December 8, 2008
My Home, Your Home
Co-Founder Remembered
Irma
Walker, co-founder of Milwaukee Alliance member
My Home, Your
Home, passed away Nov. 27. Walker started the agency with her
husband Aubrey. Read the
full
story. In light of their contributions, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett
declared Wednesday, Dec. 31 to be Irma and Aubrey Walker Day in the city
of Milwaukee.
Read Barrett's proclamation.
November 2008
MEMBER
NEWS FOR THE WEEK OF
November 24, 2008
Andrus Children’s
Center’s Innovative Strategies Highlighted
Alliance
member Andrus
Children’s Center in Yonkers, N.Y., is profiled in a new
Featured Listening Post section of the Johns Hopkins Center for
Civil Society’s
Listening
Post Project website. Andrus Children’s Center is one of the more
than 43 Alliance members that participate in the Listening Post Project.
The agency is featured because of its innovative web-based curriculum
that it described in the Nonprofit Recruitment and Retention Sounding
report.
Read more about this innovation.
Learn more,
including how your organization can get involved.
MEMBER
NEWS FOR THE WEEK OF
November 17, 2008
Name Change Promotes
Community Connection
In
order to help the public better understand and connect to the agency's
core mission, Alliance member The Counseling Center of Milwaukee (TCCM)
has changed its name to
Pathfinders.
The name change came about after TCCM staff surveyed the community and
discovered that Pathfinders—its oldest and most well-known program—is
greatly recognized throughout Milwaukee, carrying emotional attachment
for many community members. Read the
full story.
MEMBER
NEWS FOR THE WEEK OF
November 10, 2008
Hillside Children’s
Center Receives Excellence Award
Adoption
Resource Network at Hillside Children’s Center, a branch of Alliance
member Hillside
Family of Agencies in Rochester, N.Y., was awarded the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Service’s 2008
Adoption Excellence Award. The honor recognizes the organization’s
extraordinary contributions in providing adoption and other permanency
outcomes for children in foster care through its Adoption Support and
Preservation (ASAP) services. ASAP offers support services to TANF-eligible
families who have adopted or are in the process of adopting a child.
October 2008
MEMBER
NEWS FOR THE WEEK OF
October 27, 2008
Seedco Releases Project Reach Out Guide
Seedco,
an Alliance member in New York, saw the culmination of a national
initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Labor when the agency
released a publication at a Department of Labor conference this past
summer. The Project Reach Out Guide provides direction on building
effective partnerships between public workforce systems and community
organizations. Summarized
content and
tools, as well as the full-length
PRO Guide are available through the agency’s
website.
MEMBER
NEWS FOR THE WEEK OF
October 20, 2008
Everyday Heroes: Stuart
and Elaine Duncan
Weekends are the loneliest time for teen-aged girls removed from
their homes because of parental abuse or neglect, or for pregnant girls
in the care of a human service organization. For many years, Stuart and
Elaine Duncan welcomed many of these troubled youth into their home as
part of the Family Resource Volunteer program at what is now named the
Partnership for Families, Children and Adults, an Alliance member in
Chattanooga, Tenn. Their commitment to the organization, which dates
back to the late 1980s, has included direct service, board and committee
service, and much more.
Read their story.
MEMBER
NEWS FOR THE WEEK OF
October 13, 2008
Volunteers of America
Receives Project Grant
Volunteers
of America-Minnesota, an Alliance member in Minneapolis, has been
awarded a grant for its Unbefriended Elders: Matching Values with
Decisions project. This project supports the rights of older adults who
have no identified family, close friends, or other support systems. If
incapacitated or experiencing a medical crisis, these individuals often
are at risk of over- or under-treatment when admitted to medical or care
settings. The agency will help these older adults establish health care
directives stating surrogacy, medical treatment, and care preferences.
MEMBER
NEWS FOR THE WEEK OF
October 6, 2008
Family Centers and
HealthCare Connection Merger
Alliance
member Family
Centers in Greenwich, Conn., has merged with HealthCare Connection
of Stamford, Conn. The addition of HealthCare Connections’ school-based
medical and counseling services, HIV/AIDS case management, and outreach
services for family day care providers will strengthen Family Centers’
health-related services.
Alliance Members Awarded
$46,250
A
total of $46,250 was awarded to 17 Alliance members last week at the
10th Annual Ways to
Work Institute in Brookfield, Wis. Award recipients were: Family
Answers, Lehigh Valley, Pa.; Family Service Centers, St. Petersburg,
Fla.; Family Service Association of Bucks County, Langhorne, Pa.;
Alliance for Families and Children of Central Virginia, Lynchburg, Va.;
Child and Family Services, Buffalo, N.Y.; People Responding in Social
Ministry, Golden Valley, Minn.; Metropolitan Family Service, Portland,
Ore.; Communities Investing in Families, Cambridge, Minn.; Family
Services of Northeast Wisconsin, Green Bay, Wis.; Family Service of
Greater Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge, La.; Community Emergency Assistance
Program, Brooklyn Park, Minn.; YWCA of O'ahu, Honolulu; Personal and
Family Counseling Services, New Philadelphia, Ohio; and Family Service
Agency of San Mateo County, San Mateo, Calif.
Read the
full story.
September 2008
MEMBER
NEWS FOR THE WEEK OF
September 15, 2008
Family Services’ Leader
Publishes Needs Assessment
Larry
Fiebert, associate executive director at Alliance member
Family Services of
Montgomery County in Eagleville, Pa., has published a timely report
answering questions about how the social and health services network can
understand and meet the unique needs of northern Pennsylvania Korean and
Asian Indian populations. For more information or to obtain a copy of
the report, contact Larry Fiebert
or visit North Penn Community Health Foundation’s
website.
MEMBER
NEWS FOR THE WEEK OF
September 1, 2008
Berea Receives Grant for
Holistic Health
Alliance
member Berea Children’s Home and Family Services (BCHFS)
in Berea, Ohio, has received a gift of $25,000 from the Community West
Foundation. The funds will be used for the formation of a Mental Health
Spirituality program to serve clients who use BCHFS’ residential
treatment center and group homes. BCHFS leadership hopes the program
will positively improve the holistic care of some of the most vulnerable
children living on the west side of the greater Cleveland area.
August 2008
MEMBER
NEWS FOR THE WEEK OF
August 25, 2008
$1.1 Million for Alliance
Members
Five
Alliance members have collectively tapped more than $1.1 million in
federal funds for their local
Ways to Work
low-interest car loan programs. The awards are from the Job Access
Reverse Commute (JARC) Program, which provides funding for innovative
transportation services that connect welfare recipients and other
low-income persons to jobs and employment-related services.
Read more
about how Ways to Work Inc., an Alliance sister company, helped secure
this funding for Child & Family Services, Trillium Family Solutions,
Northern Virginia Family Services, Family Services, and Family Services
of Western Pennsylvania.
MEMBER
NEWS FOR THE WEEK OF
August 18, 2008
Youth Haven Expands
Children’s Behavioral Health
Youth
Haven, an Alliance member in Naples, Fla., has expanded its
children’s behavioral health program by adding Janette’s Cottage. The
new 12-bed facility provides a variety of out-of-home mental therapy
services for children through age 12 whose personal, social, emotional,
or family situations prohibit them from resolving their psychological
issues at home. The opening of Janette’s Cottage expands the number of
children living on the Youth Haven campus to 32 at any given time.
MEMBER
NEWS FOR THE WEEK OF
August 11, 2008
Merger Expands Member
Services
Alliance member
Family & Children First in Louisville, Ky., has announced that it
will soon merge with
Family Place,
a fellow nonprofit organization in Louisville. The new organization will
provide expanded services for families and children affected by
violence, abuse, and neglect in Jefferson County, Ky., as well as
surrounding counties in Kentucky and southern Indiana.
Learn more.
MEMBER
NEWS FOR THE WEEK OF
August 4, 2008
Children & Families First
Merges
February 1, 2008, the
Family &
Workplace Connection, a nonprofit resource and referral
organization, became part of Alliance member
Children & Families
First in Wilmington, Del. The merger offers clients a broader range
of services with over 35 programs that strive to increase child care
quality and availability, promote positive parenting, improve the
workplace, help teens make responsible decisions, and more. The merge
also presents the opportunity for future growth statewide by building on
a shared vision and shared areas of expertise.
