Posts Tagged ‘family health’
Saving Babies, Changing Lives
There are days when Kaye Sanders realizes she’s been holding her breath from the moment she woke up. As the Recovery House Coordinator for Community Healing Centers’ Women’s Specialty Program, Sanders and her team walk beside women working to rebuild lives and families while battling addiction. Many of them – particularly those who reside at…
Read MoreBuilding Healthy Families One Connection at a Time
Lee Gray and Amy Smith know how to build relationships. It’s a skill that has proven essential to the facilitation and growth of their family education program, Family Connections. By creating an environment of trust and open dialogue, program co-directors Gray and Smith say they are quickly able to engage even the most reluctant of…
Read MoreMaxine's Story
Maxine was using methamphetamines when she discovered she was pregnant last year. She had been struggling in the aftermath of a DUI charge, trying hard to “make it all work” and feeling that she wasn’t moving forward in life. “I felt overwhelmed and hopeless,” she said. “I started using meth because I felt like I…
Read MoreImpact Week: Healthy Food, Healthy Families
[su_label type=”info”]IMPACT WEEK[/su_label] For one Battle Creek woman, a single working mother with two young children, simply getting to the grocery store is often difficult. Visiting local farmers markets to buy fresh produce for her kids happens even more infrequently. The Sprout Box Scholarship, a first-year program strategically funded by United Way BCKR under its…
Read MoreGrants Tackle Childhood Trauma, Infant Health
Equipping schools to help students who suffer trauma and helping vulnerable families promote better health for newborns are among five programs receiving a total of $196,736 in funding from United Way of the Battle Creek and Kalamazoo Region. UWBCKR announced a third set of grants under its new impact strategy. The new grants are one-year…
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