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LeadingAge Issues Statement on Federal Nursing Home Requirements

By CHHSM-Member Ministry Contribution | September 29, 2016

The following statement is from LeadingAge, a trusted voice for aging in the United States, which CHHSM is a participating member. Washington, D.C. — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released final rules revising the nursing home requirements of participation, which were to be published October 4, 2016. This new rules represents the most significant…

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UCC Congregation, CHAMP Homes Partner to Support Homeless

By CHHSM Staff | September 15, 2016

Early this spring, the Rev. John Terry of the Federated Church, UCC, in Hyannis, Mass, received a phone call from the Rev. Guillermo Marquez-Sterling, associate minister for program development, at Pass-A-Grille Beach Community UCC near St. Petersburg, Fla., inquiring about opportunities on Cape Cod where his church members could engage in mission work near UCC-related…

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UCC-Related RHF Expands its Affordable Housing Ministry in Southern Los Angeles

By CHHSM Staff | September 15, 2016

United Church of Christ-related Retirement Housing Foundation has completed Paloma Terrace, a new affordable housing property in South Los Angeles. The four-story structure comprises 59 units of housing for low-income families, and is located on less than an acre at the corner of 50th and Main Streets. Founded in 1961, RHF was launched by two…

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Neighborhood Houses Helps St. Louis Youth Explore Future

By CHHSM Staff | September 15, 2016

Recent high school graduate Emmanuel Futrell had never visited a four-year college, and even the thought of being away from his family was a bit unsettling. But an unexpected campus visit this summer changed his perspective. The trip to LeMoyne-Owen College in Memphis, arranged by CHHSM member Neighborhood Houses, a St. Louis youth services organization,…

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Music Rekindles Memories at Cedar Community

By CHHSM Staff | September 15, 2016

For Barbara Fedderly, music produces an awakening. When she listens to her iPod, the resident of Cedar Community in West Bend, Wisconsin, is suddenly animated. “She will hold her shoulders and sometimes smile,” Norman Fedderly says of his wife’s reaction to the music. Barbara is one of 19 current Cedar Community residents enrolled in the…

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UCC Leads the Way in Advocating for America’s Older Adults

By CHHSM Staff | September 14, 2016

Leaders of the United Church of Christ’s Council for Health and Human Service Ministries played a significant role at in-district legislative advocacy meetings this summer organized by LeadingAge, a national organization that exists to expand the world of possibilities for the aging. Former UCC General Minister and President the Rev. Geoffrey A. Black, who is a member of…

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CHHSM Joins Other UCC Settings in Offering Support to Our Church’s Wider Mission

By CHHSM Staff | September 14, 2016

Breaking from tradition, the UCC’s Council for Health and Human Service Ministries (CHHSM), which does not receive any funding from the denomination’s shared funding pool known as Our Church’s Wider Mission (OCWM), has decided to contribute to it instead. CHHSM, which is supported financially by 73 corporate members, made an initial donation of $1,000 this…

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UCAN CEO Emeritus: The Root Cause of Gun Violence is Guns

By CHHSM Staff | September 14, 2016

Originally published September 12, 2016, in the Chicago Tribune, this op-ed was written by Tom Vanden Berk, CEO emeritus of CHHSM-member UCAN in Chicago and founder of Illinois’ Gun Violence Prevention Political Action Committee. Dueling op-eds published last week [in the Chicago Tribune] considered whether a “war on guns” — namely tougher mandatory sentences for…

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UCC Leads the Way in Advocating for America’s Older Adults

By CHHSM Staff | September 14, 2016

Leaders of the United Church of Christ’s Council for Health and Human Service Ministries played a significant role at in-district legislative advocacy meetings this summer organized by LeadingAge, a national organization that exists to expand the world of possibilities for the aging. Former UCC General Minister and President the Rev. Geoffrey A. Black, who is a member of…

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Water Sculpture by Famed Artist to be Dedicated at Beatitudes Campus

By CHHSM Staff | September 9, 2016

A marble water sculpture “Tao” by renowned artist Fred Bendheim will be dedicated on Friday, September 23, at Beatitudes Campus in Phoenix at 4:30 pm. The sculpture, originally commissioned for Frank Lloyd Wright’s “The Pottery House” in Paradise Valley, Arizona, was designed and constructed from 1982-1983. It was donated to Beatitudes Campus by the artist.…

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