Fellowship Place took to the streets on Saturday morning to participate in the Annual Spring Clean-up sponsored by the Greater Dwight Development Corporation.
About ten members and their counselors raked and picked up trash & bottles on Elm, University Place, and Dwight. All part of our way of giving back to the community and being a good neighbor.
Fellowship Place was recognized by Dr. Ezra Griffith in the latest edition of Psychiatric News for its Creative Writing group. According to Dr. Griffith, creative writing is an important tool in mental health care, promoting trust, community, self-expression, and reminiscence.
Annually, Fellowship Place collaborates with Yale student volunteers from the VITA program to make certain clients who are part of the agency’s Supported Employment program get their income taxes prepared for free. Due to the pandemic, this year the tax clinic was a virtual event. The agency provided phones, laptop computers, and counselor assistance to help each client upload his/her documents to the Yale volunteers and hold a virtual meeting to prepare the tax forms. This all took a little extra effort, but we got the job done. Most of our clients have already received their refunds!
A special thank you to Aaron Farr and Rachel Handler, the VITA Coordinators at Yale, for working through the unique challenges we had this year so that the annual Income Tax Clinic could still happen.
These supplies will save the agency significant funds and help keep our staff and clients safe as we continue to deal with the pandemic.
Fellowship Place continues to be open for in-person activities, making it a priority to always have an adequate supply of PPE in stock.
It may be stormy outside, but at Fellowship Place we are dancing our cares away. Dance class happens every week, courtesy of the Jamie Hulley Arts Foundation. Masks and social distance required.
Thank you to our friends at Kolmar Americas for making the holidays warmer and brighter. Employees at the company donated gloves, coats, socks and hygiene products for distribution to Fellowship Place clients, and the corporate office supported the agency’s Annual Appeal with a very generous grant. Another wonderful example of a corporation giving back to the community.
