Anchor House Update - February Edition
Mental Health Matters
The rates of depression, anxiety, trauma, loneliness, and suicidality among young people have soared during the pandemic. Anchor House has responded to the need for mental health support and conducted over 600 individual counseling sessions and more than 70 substance abuse sessions in 2021!

As we move forward, Anchor House continues to explore additional ways to help address the growing mental health crisis to offer more support to our youth, their families and the community.

"Anchor House has been such a great source of support to me in my adolescent life." - youth participant

Any youth in need can call our 24-hour crisis hotline at 609-396-8329 to be referred to support at Anchor House or within the community.


New Board Member and Changing of the Guard
Anchor House is pleased to welcome Elaine Tanimura as our newest board member. Elaine is an experienced executive project manager and nonprofit program director. She has a passion for social responsibility and serves in several community volunteer leadership positions.

"I immediately felt connected to Anchor House and their vision to end youth homelessness.  I look forward to working together with leadership to reduce this serious problem in our state." - Elaine Tanimura

In other board news, Kristie Sells was recently elected as new board President. Kristie replaces Tom Pryor who we thank for his leadership and many years of dedicated service to Anchor House! Richard Belli has been elected as Vice President.
Kristie Sells, Board President
Rich Belli, Board Vice President
Partner Spotlight: Stark & Stark
Anchor House partners with many individuals, organizations businesses to help realize our mission. We are proud to partner with Stark & Stark, a full-service law firm with offices in NJ and PA.

Stark & Stark has supported Anchor House over the years in many ways including holiday drives, denim days, event sponsorship and board engagement. We are grateful for the firm's donation of $5,000 for the past two years to support our mission during these challenging times.

Our outgoing board President, Tom Pryor, is of counsel at the firm as well as Richard Belli, shareholder and Anchor House Vice President. Thank you, Stark & Stark, for your generous support of the community and to Anchor House!
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