- FWCS Students learn about healthy cooking
- YMCA Youth Advocacy Initiative helps teens meet their full potential
- Afghanistan to Fort Wayne: How Catholic Charities' Immigration Services make a global impact
- Refugee Resettlement Programs in Northeast Indiana, March 30 event
- Meet the board: Dr. Tom Kintanar
- Prenatal & Infant Care Network "Safe Sleep" Luncheon recap
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Program spotlight:
FWCS Students learn about healthy cooking
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More than 2,000 Fort Wayne Community Schools seventh graders now understand essential nutrition and cooking concepts, thanks to the Our HEALing Kitchen for Kids program.
HEAL stands for Healthy Eating Active Living and is an initiative of the St. Joseph Community Health Foundation and Parkview Health. A grant from the Indiana Department of Health provided the opportunity for FWCS middle school students to take part in the HEAL program and learn skills such as cleaning, chopping and...
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- Caring for the whole person: mind, body, and spirit- |
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Grantee spotlight:
YMCA Youth Advocacy Initiative helps teens meet their full potential
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It is said that identical twins share a special, unique bond. Sharing identical characteristics make this type of sibling relationship truly special. It was apparent to the staff at SOCAP upon first meeting the Metz twins that they fit this description. Two girls, Chloe and Sophie Metz, have grown extensively as individuals through SOCAP (Status Offender Court Alternative Program) and the Youth Advocacy program. Initially, the girls walked through the doors of SOCAP dealing with immense emotional trauma, anger issues, extreme depression, and a reluctance to trust those in positions of authority.
The school year consists of 180 school days. When meeting the girls for the first time, it was reported by Northrop High School that both girls missed a total of 110 days. In addition, when the girls were at school, they often had issues with staff and other students that led to verbal and even physical altercations. After losing a close friend to a drug overdose, the girls went into a dark, depressive state. As they continued in SOCAP, they began to...
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Grantee spotlight:
Afghanistan to Fort Wayne: How Catholic Charities' immigration services make global impact
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Bailey Gerber
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
On August 15, 2021—after nearly 20 years—the United States military withdrew from Afghanistan. Within hours, the country’s capital, Kabul, fell to the Taliban. Over the next several days, thousands of Afghans fled to the airport, trying to secure seats on limited-occupancy flights out of the country. Many of them had worked alongside U.S. service members as interpreters, guides, and pilots—but their pursuit of safety was not as simple as a flight to the United States.
Sami Ahmadi*, a pilot who worked with the U.S.-established government before it fell to the Taliban, traveled with his pregnant wife to wait outside the Kabul airport. He didn’t know it yet, but he was about to begin a three-month journey to Fort Wayne...
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Free Foundation event:
Refugee Resettlement Programs
in Northeast Indiana
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March 30 | 3:30 p.m.
Allen County Public Library Theater
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Northeast Indiana has a strong tradition of welcoming newcomers and refugees, most recently from Burma, Bosnia, Congo, and Somalia. In the past two years, our community and nation have received our Afghan allies, Ukrainians fleeing war, and people seeking safety, including Venezuelans, Haitians, Cubans, and Nicaraguans.
Resettling into a new culture and building a new life is not easy for our new residents. Our community is blessed with...
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Foundation focus:
Meet the board: Dr. Tom Kintanar
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Q: What do you enjoy most about serving on the St. Joe Foundation Board?
I enjoy being a witness to the work of the Holy Spirit and the love of Jesus Christ being realized in the numerous agencies benefiting from the generosity of the Poor Handmaids. This, in turn enables them to provide services to the needy of our community.
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Program spotlight:
March Prenatal & Infant Care Luncheon:
New Safe Sleep Information and Resources
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The St. Joe Foundation hosted a Prenatal & Infant Care Network (PIC) Luncheon on safe sleep at the University of Saint Francis on March 2, 2023. The PIC luncheons are free educational and networking opportunities for service providers and caregivers to pregnant women, infants, and families.
Erin Norton, Director of Community Outreach for Parkview Women’s & Children’s Service Line and member of the Allen County Child Fatality Review (CFR) Board; Allie Houston, Prevention Program Director at the Indiana Department of Health; and Stephanie Good, Registered Nurse and Birth Navigator and Childbirth Educator at Dupont Hospital presented local and statewide insights on safe sleep and how to best support babies and the families caring for them...
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A ministry sponsored by the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ.
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