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Connecting Our Community: Strengthening Lives Through Essential Services

Join us in empowering our community members to meet their basic needs, improve their overall health, and achieve personal growth. Together, we can overcome obstacles and foster a stronger, healthier, and more connected community.

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Connecting Our Community: Strengthening Lives Through Essential Services

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  1. HSPN Presentation: January 28, 2019 Deb Jones (ECHOS) and Seema Tailor (AmeriCorps*VISTA) CONNECTING OUR COMMUNITY!

  2. We believe our community will be stronger when every member has his/her basic needs met, is healthy in every aspect of life, and is empowered to pursue their personal growth and goals. Mission & Vision

  3. Obstacles (2015) • Lack of awareness of other agencies • Poor communication among providers • Services were difficult to access

  4. Eleven Original Partners (2015) + =

  5. Increased HUB membership American Legion Post 329 American Legion Auxiliary Unit 329 Blueprints for Addiction Recovery Elizabethtown Borough Council Bridge of Hope of Lancaster & Chester Co. Buddy Program Build A Plate/E-town/Community Cupboard GEARS Hope Within Community Health Ctr. & Counseling Services Jewel David Ministries Kiwanis -Norlanco- Rheems Kiwanis, Elizabethtown Lancaster Co. Recovery Alliance Lancaster General/Penn Medical @ NORLANCO Lions Club LutherCare for Kids Masonic Village Meals On Wheels Milanof-Schock Library Ministerium of Elizabethtown Naaman Center Northwest EMS Northwest Regional Police Optimist Club Parents As Teachers Princeton Grad-Student Representative in PA House Rotary Club Salvation Army / Pathways of Hope Susquehanna Regional Police United Churches of Elizabethtown Area United Way & 2-1-1 Call Center United Way of Lancaster County Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post 5667 VFW Auxilary, Post 5667 VITA, United Way of Lancaster County Winter Shelter District Justice, Magistrate ECHOS Elizabeth Hughes Society Elizabethtown Area Communities That Care Elizabethtown Area School District Bear Bags Elizabethtown Borough Police Elizabethtown Child Care Center Elizabethtown Community Nursery School Elizabethtown Mayor Elizabethtown Public Library Elizabethtown Women's Club Rheems Fire Dept E-town Fire Dept Celebrate Recovery/ E-town Celebrate Recovery @ Gracepointe Church Center for Community& Civic Engagement Center for Parent/ Youth Understanding Chamber of Commerce CHI St. Joseph Children's Health Children's Playroom Christ Church UCC & Diaper Bank Christ Lutheran Church Churches That Care Clothing Bank Community Action Partnerships/CAP Community Cupboard Community Volunteer Cornerstone Youth Center

  6. Identified On-going Needs:10.8% - poverty level30.8% - free/reduced lunch – Etown Schools40% - free/reduced lunch – Donegal Schools15% - increased use of Community Cupboard70% - ECHOS clients live on $1,000 or less a month17% - 12th graders reported binge drinking within past 14 daysOne medical clinic within 20 miles serving MA patients

  7. HUB Strategies • Community Education & Engagement • Empowerment • Community Place on Washington (centralized services)

  8. Attacking poverty from pre-natal to adulthood, through services that provide: Food, Shelter, Clothing Health: physical/mental, substance abuse and addiction Long-term support Education (individual and community)

  9. Elizabethtown has answered the call to action, will you? • Educate and inform self and others • Refer people to our services • Helping individuals…you are helping the community

  10. Thank-you! Lives in E-town Lives are being transformed because of community support.

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