COATESVILLE — Over the summer time of 2021, The Alliance for Well being Fairness held conferences with its grant companions to listen to first-hand of the belongings, in addition to important wants that every grant companion was experiencing. The most important want recognized by these organizations was behavioral well being.
COVID-19 put a big burden on nonprofits and neighborhood members related to psychological well being and wellbeing. Workers shortages, zoom fatigue, lack of volunteers, and continued capability wants elevated the organizations’ psychological well being wants. Whereas pushing by means of this, there was additionally the psychological well being burden of COVID-19 escalating nervousness as a result of fear of the people or a detailed good friend/household contracting the virus, in addition to the neighborhood stresses of financial downturn and inequitable burdens of well being care entry to our numerous communities. The wants of the neighborhood have been met by elevated workloads and dedication from every of The Alliance For Well being Fairness’s nonprofit grant companions.
Because of this important want for behavioral well being, The Alliance for Well being Fairness proudly administered a grant verify of $2,500 to 30 neighborhood grant companions (see checklist under) as a token of appreciation for all that they do on behalf of our neighborhood. The $2,500 has no restrictions, so long as it’s used for the workers to care for their emotional well-being. That is the time for our grant companions to pause and concentrate on their workers’s psychological well being and well-being.
“Once I opened the mail and noticed the beneficiant grant for employees’s psychological well being and wellness, I used to be deeply excited and paused to increase gratitude. On behalf of the workers of the Home Violence Heart, this reward is well timed and needed- as you realize we’ve got continued to serve and haven’t closed our doorways! “ – Dr. Dolly Wideman-Scott, Ed.D. – Chief Govt Officer, Home Violence Heart of Chester County
The Alliance for Well being Fairness values our partnerships and care in regards to the workers who proceed to work tirelessly in serving to The AHE to hold out its mission, to advance a extra equitable, resilient, and wholesome neighborhood. It continues to be a difficult 12 months, and our grant companion workers proceed to answer the important wants of the Larger Coatesville.
The AHE seems to be ahead to persevering with our assist by means of trust-based philanthropy. Coming quickly, The Alliance for Well being Fairness will current its new spherical of funding for 2022. Please you should definitely take a look at our web site at alliancehealthequity.org to study extra about The AHE upcoming grantmaking alternatives in 2022.
The awarded grant companions included: Higher Tomorrows, Brians Home, Inc., The Bridge Academy and Neighborhood Heart, Charles A Melton Heart for Arts & Schooling, Chester County Futures, Chester County OIC, Baby Steering Useful resource Heart, Coatesville 2nd Century Alliance, Brandywine Valley Energetic Getting old, Coatesville Heart for Neighborhood Well being, Coatesville Youth Initiative, Neighborhood Volunteers in Medication, Neighborhood, Youth and Girls’s Alliance, Inc., Home Violence Heart of Chester County, Household Promise of Southern Chester County, Household Service of Chester County, Good Works, Inc., Larger Philadelphia Search and Rescue, Hope Past Borders, Human Providers, Inc., Keystone Valley Hearth Division, Maternal and Baby Well being Consortium, Mitzvah Circle, Modena Hearth Co No 1, The Parkesburg POINT, Pennsylvania Well being Entry Community, Valley Youth Home, Volunteer English Program in Chester County, W.C Atkinson Memorial Neighborhood Service Heart, Inc., Youth Mentoring Partnership.