Thank you for Caring & Sharing! Fellowship Place Board member Will Sherman with just a small sample of hygiene products and warm weather gear he collected from Temple Emanuel and Soundental Associates, two of Fellowship’s regular supporters. These items will be distributed throughout the new year to walk-in clients to our homeless drop-in program and others in need from throughout the agency.
A special thank you to our corporate partner Kolmar Americas for donating a very large assortment of blankets, backpacks, towels, and hygiene products for distribution to our clients this holiday season and throughout the winter. Kolmar matched contributions made by their employees, thereby doubling the impact of their gifts. Debbie Gianni (left) and Elena Bezus (right) from Kolmar met today with Veronica Vidal, Manager of Homeless Services at Fellowship Place. The agency’s daytime drop-in program for the homeless has served over 175 individuals since July 1. Kolmar’s gifts will be a big help, especially for the unsheltered.
Fellowship Place sends all of our colleagues and supporters best wishes for a joyful holiday season and a very happy and healthy New Year. Our 2022 greeting was created by a member of Fellowship Place’s Expressive Arts Program, which provides individuals the opportunity to express themselves creatively via visual art, writing, and music.
Fellowship Place is the recipient of a 2023 grant award from the Petit Family Foundation in support of the agency’s Expressive Arts program, which inspires and promotes artistic expression as a therapeutic tool for adults living with chronic mental illness. The program offers a safe haven where clients participate in a variety of artistic forms of expression, including visual art, writing, and music.
Photo: Dr. Bill Petit, President Petit Family Foundation, Melissa Holroyd, Development Director of Fellowship Place, Bernie Lidestri Petit Family Foundation Board Member.
Fellowship Place has been awarded a 2023 grant award from Pfizer Inc. in support of the agency’s Healthy Meal Program, which addresses food insecurity & nutrition for low-income adults living with serious mental illness who attend therapeutic activities on our agency’s campus. The program provides access to free healthy meals daily- functioning as a safety net for clients who may not have adequate funds, cooking skills, or kitchen facilities, to eat and prepare nutritious meals on a daily basis. The program also gives them the opportunity to socialize and share meals with peers who face similar challenges.
Studies show that regular nutrition and an improved food lifestyle have proven effective in reducing the health-related risk factors common among people with serious mental illness, and both are vital to them in functioning at the highest level of independent living possible, an important outcome in the work that Fellowship Place does.
The Beacon, Fellowship Place’s literary journal featuring poems and essays by members of the agency’s Writers Group, was recently featured for a second time in Psychiatric News. Read the article Here
Thank you Dr. Griffith for recognizing our work.
