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Fellowship Place receives 2023 ConnexCares grant award from Connex Credit Union

Fellowship Place is the recipient of a 2023 ConnexCares grant award from Connex Credit Union, in support of the Fellowship Inn Meal program serving sheltered & unsheltered homeless adults living with mental illness or a substance use disorder. By removing the socio-economic barriers to daily meals, the program addresses hunger and food insecurity for the homeless who come to the Inn for services during the day when local shelters are closed.

 

 

 

 

 

Photo: Louise Nestor, Assistant Vice President Marketing, Connex Credit Union
Mary Guerrera, Executive Director Fellowship Place

A Special Exhibit Celebrating the Healing Power of Art

Fellowship Place is joining our partners The Parents Foundation, Chapel Haven, and Marrakech on Thurs. Sept. 21, from 5:00 pm-8:00 pm, for a special exhibit celebrating the healing power of art.

Join us for this FREE community event at Creative Arts Workshop, 80 Audubon St in New Haven, CT.

If you enjoy art, you will be inspired by the wonderful pieces on display, all created by Fellowship Place clients, who work very hard every day to overcome many life challenges.

Thank You Community Partners Comcast and the Center for Adaptive Learning!

Comcast representative Olivia Keyes (right) visited Fellowship Place today to register our clients for free or reduced internet service via The Affordable Connectivity Program. A special shout out to the Center for Adaptive Learning (CFAL) and Comcast for working with Fellowship Place to connect our clients to the internet for work, school, healthcare, and more!

Recognizing Recent Graduates of the CFAL Computer Class at Fellowship Place!

Congratulations to the latest graduates of the computer class offered on the Fellowship Place campus by the Center for Adaptive Learning (CFAL), which promotes digital equity and digital inclusion. All graduates receive a free computer. Fellowship Place is proud to partner with CFAL to promote computer literacy for everyone in our community.

Hearing Voices: Stories of love, Mental Illness, and Creativity – Thank You Michael Mack!

Many thanks to Michael Mack, celebrated poet, writer, and performer, for his phenomenal, multifaceted performance of ‘Hearing Voices: Stories of love, Mental Illness, and Creativity, on Fellowship Place’s campus May 18. In his one-man presentation, Mack shared a series of stories about growing up with a mother with schizophrenia, and how her illness impacted the family, along with reflections on the artistic process as a spiritual pilgrimage of healing. A truly inspiration performance, threaded with multiple standing ovations from the audience!

Michael Mack was five years old when his mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Her illness brought radical changes to everyone in Mack’s family – changes they would navigate for decades. Mack began writing about her life to better understand her inner struggle, and his own lifelong depression. This evolved into stories and performances that became an integral part of Mack’s healing journey – not healing as a tidy little package, but in the complexity of a person growing ever more into a whole self.

In 2023, Mack won the Great American Fiction Contest published by The Saturday Evening Post. His work has aired on NPR and has been published by the likes of the Journal of the American Medical Association and Beloit Poetry Journal. Mack has performed at the US Library of Congress, Yale University, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, the Austin International Poetry Festival, and Off-Off-Broadway at the Times Square Arts Center.