Sunday, May 5, 2013
Event seeks to educate health care professionals, caregivers, family members and the general public.
Part of the nonprofit group Community Hope's mission is to educate the public on issues important to the groups it serves: homeless veterans, military families and people with mental illness. Each year, the Parsippany organization hosts a free event with the Mental Health Association of Morris County that puts a spotlight on mental health issues. Wellness and recovery will be the focus of this year's Mental Health Learning and Wellness Fair, which takes place Thursday, May 16 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Morris County Public Safety Training Academy at 500 W. Hanover Ave. in Parsippany. The fair's purpose is in its title: Community Hope and MHA say they want to present information to a vast audience, including health care professionals, …
Thursday, March 14, 2013
'Red Shirt Fridays' fundraiser held to help homeless veterans.
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Thursday, March 14
The following was submitted on behalf of the VFW Post 3401 in Morris Plains. Have something you'd like to announce to the community? Upload it here. On March 13, VFW Post 3401 Morris Plains, donated to Community Hope in Parsippany. VFW Post 3401 had a "Red Shirt Fridays" fundraiser which was dedicated to the care of homeless veterans in our area. Community Hope is a leader in providing transitional housing and programs to assist in the integration and support needed for veterans and their families.
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
State treasurer appears at Veterans Administration in Lyons to officially award $97K grant to upgrade transitional home for vets.
New Jersey's treasurer, Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff, traveled to the Hope for Veterans transition housing on Veterans Administration campus in Lyons on Wednesday to present a grant — but the trip also was an opportunity to tour a facility that has served more than 600 veterans since it opened. The Hope For Veterans program is designed as a temporary stay for veterans who need health, psychiatric or career services to move forward with their lives. But during 2013, more permanent housing for 63 veterans is scheduled to be built nearby on the Veterans Administration property in the Lyons section of Bernards Township. "It's a great program," said veteran Agifa Constable, who grew up in Old Bridge, and served in the Iraqi war. He said his case …
Monday, September 17, 2012
Community Hope provides affordable housing resources for military veterans and developmental disabled people.
Parsippany's Community Hope is one of 22 New Jersey organizations getting a share of about $615,000 in Bank of America grants going to state nonprofits focused on housing issues. The grants are part of a larger BoA program that will spend $22 million among 650 national and local community nonprofits in 34 states. The groups being awarded have a similar focus: providing low- and moderate-income households with services. Those services, however, are quite diverse, ranging from building and rehabbing of affordable housing to homeowner counseling and foreclosure prevention programs. “Building capacity for nonprofit partners is a critical step as we continue to address the impacts of the housing crisis, here in New Jersey and across the …
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Originally set to be on Reynolds Ave., Community Hope finds a new site for a home for developmentally disabled residents on Tabor Road.
Changes are coming to an affordable housing project being supported by the Township Council. At the body's agenda meeting last Tuesday, it was announced that next week, the council will take up a resolution to amend its agreement with nonprofit Community Hope to use $600,000 from Parsippany's Affordable Housing Trust Fund to fund a new supportive living residence for developmentally disabled people. Under the original agreement, the money would be used to acquire and rehabilitate a home on Reynolds Avenue for five disabled residents. J. Michael Armstrong, CEO of Community Hope, which helps mentally ill people and veterans with finding the housing they need, said it was forced to find an alternate location after the Reynolds Avenue building…
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Provident Bank steps up to help nonprofit help people with mental illness.
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012
The Provident Bank Foundation recently awarded a $1,000 grant to Community Hope, Inc. , a Parsippany-based nonprofit that offers housing assistance to people recovering from debilitating mental illness. The funds will support the group's CHOICE Independent-Living Program, a supportive housing program for disabled individuals. “We are extremely thankful for the grant from the Provident Bank Foundation,” said Julia Bey Ahmet, vice president of development. "This funding will help subsidize affordable housing over a three month period for an individual in our program who is in recovery." Community Hope was founded in 1985 by Eileen Griffith and others related to young adults whose lives were impacted by depression, schizophrenia and other …
Monday, April 23, 2012
Community Hope helps veterans and their families stay healthy, sheltered and unified.
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Monday, April 23, 2012
Organizers say Parsippany-based Community Hope’s Supportive Services for Veteran Families program has helped nearly 40 families to avoid homelessness since being launched last Veterans Day. The program is funded with a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Community Hope expects to assist about 140 veteran families looking for housing in Morris, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex and Warren counties in the program’s first year. “We recognize that this is a tough time for our veterans and their families, particularly those who have been recently deployed and return to try to find jobs in this economy or struggle with the trauma of combat while trying to maintain their family responsibilities,” said Community Hope CEO J. …
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Parsippany-based agency helps military veterans and the mentally ill.
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
Community Hope has new leadership. The Parsippany group known for its work with homeless veterans and the mentally ill lost its president of 26 years when Carmela Lunt announced her retirement from the organization's board of directors last week. Walking away as president emeritus, Lunt handed the job over to the new president, Community Hope co-founder Eileen Griffith. The group's new vice president is Marilyn Lukach. “Eileen is one of the founding mothers who worked so hard to establish our first community residences and has helped lead our expansion from serving five individuals in 1985 to more than 300 today,” said J.Michael Armstrong, Community Hope's CEO. “She is as an impassioned advocate for all individuals affected by mental …
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Friday, July 29, 2011
Community Hope will receive $1 million to provide housing assistance to military families in New Jersey.
Parsippany's Community Hope Inc., a nonprofit organization that offers assistance to homeless veterans, is getting $1 million in federal funding. That money will go toward helping 140 military families in Morris, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex and Warren counties. Another $744,000 will go to Catholic Charities Dioceses of Camden to help its efforts with 225 families in other New Jersey counties. U.S. Senators Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez announced the grants Wednesday. "Too many veterans who have bravely served our nation are homeless or facing the prospect of being homeless," said Lautenberg, an Army veteran, in a published statement. "This funding will help hundreds of struggling New Jersey veterans gain access to or maintain housing…
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Thursday, July 14, 2011
Local nonprofit Community Hope opens a homeless veterans facility
On any given night about 107,000 of our nation’s veterans can be found sleeping on the street, on a bench or in a shelter and while only eight percent of the population can claim veteran status, one in five members of the homeless population are veterans. It’s statistics like these from the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans that led the Parsippany-based non-profit organization Community Hope to found its newly-launched program VETS. VETS—or Veterans Early Transition Services—was launched last week as a “piece of a link” that had been missing from their veteran’s services, according to Julia Ahmet, the Vice President of Development for Community Hope. In 2004, Community Hope opened their first part of the veteran’s aid link— The Hope…
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Tom Westfield
11:00 pm on Wednesday, December 12, 2012
What is a "Medal of Valor"??? It's not listed in the official awards of the United States. I'm a Vietnam Vet, USMC 65-69, and I have never heard of it. more ›