Barb Powell
The dire need for affordable housing for families and older adults exists in every city and town in the United States. Many CHHSM organizations provide affordable housing in their communities, but what they are able to offer pales in comparison to the need. The experiences of UCC-related Retirement Housing Foundation (RHF), headquartered in Long Beach,…
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From a pre-conference visit to the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel — where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated — to the Rev. Traci Blackmon’s stirring words during the closing worship, the UCC’s Council for Health and Human Service Ministries’ 82nd Annual Gathering left attendees moved, inspired, and recommitted…
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Hope, grace, and justice. These three words wound throughout an historic panel discussion by four UCC women leaders in justice advocacy March 4 at the Council for Health and Human Service Ministries’ Annual Gathering in Memphis. Moderated by the Rev. Traci Blackmon, the UCC’s Associate General Minister of Justice & Local Church Ministries and senior…
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A new play therapy room at UCC-related Hoffman Homes for Youth — a psychiatric residential treatment program for children suffering with mental health diagnoses and behavioral issues due to severe trauma, abuse, neglect and loss in Littlestown, Pa. — is enhancing Hoffman staff’s ability to help a wide range of children and youth, sometimes in…
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UCC-related St. John’s Community Care in Collinsville, Ill., has been serving older adults and persons with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia and memory loss since 1985. But recently, they found a way to provide a service that not only benefits the person with memory loss, but the person’s caregiver, too — Memory Cafés. Memory…
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An historical first in the United Church of Christ will be the centerpiece of CHHSM’s 82nd Annual Gathering, to be held March 2-5 in Memphis. On the morning of March 4 at 9 a.m., a panel discussion in the opening plenary will feature five renowned UCC women leaders in justice advocacy. Coming on the heels…
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What happens when a courageous local church and an inspired CHHSM member work together? In Bedford, Ohio, the answer is South Haven Woods, a UCC-related affordable housing community. South Haven Woods opened Oct. 1, 1989, thanks to a partnership between United Church Homes (UCH) — a life plan, health care, and affordable housing organization based…
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The mission of the UCC’s Council for Health and Human Service Ministries — to create a just, caring, and compassionate world — is lived out every day in health and human service ministries across the country. But at this year’s Annual Gathering, to be held in Memphis from March 2 through 5, many partner organizations…
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As an extension of its new advocacy partnership, the UCC’s Justice and Witness Ministries (JWM) and Council for Health and Human Service Ministries (CHHSM) have released the first installment — Health Care for All — of the Be A Voice Health and Human Service Toolkit. The toolkit, with links to both JWM and CHHSM web…
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The UCC’s Council for Health and Human Service Ministries and Justice and Witness Ministries today (Feb. 7) sent alerts imploring CHHSM members and UCC members to take action to prevent a loss of health care coverage for vulnerable populations. On Jan. 30, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a plan that would…
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