Individual members of several York County Rotary Clubs showed up early Friday morning for a combined club service project to unbox and then assemble a shipment of metal beds to be used at the new soon-to-be open Bell Family Shelter. After a quick introduction by Bell’s director of community engagement, Averie Clark, the first group […]
After a very lucrative bake sale of homemade banana bread and chocolate chip cookies, seven year old Ruby Steel and her mom, Caitlin, went shopping to buy items from the Bell Family Shelter wish list. (Read story here.) Since then, Ruby enlisted her older brother, William, to help and the family showed up with another […]
As crocus flowers push up through the moist soil from last week’s snowfall, staff and service users of Bell’s CHIPP assisted living program are already thinking ahead to summer and the program’s annual beach trip. As one fundraiser for the trip, program coordinator and assistant coordinator, Cheyanne Skelton and Ashlynn Lovett, put together two lovely […]
Bell’s Launch program has three transitional living homes in York City serving six to 10 people each. Residents pay a portion of their income* for rent. Bell’s mental health services department receives basic funding to run the homes, providing a stable environment for individuals living with mental illness to work on individualized goals, i.e. employment, […]
Once again this year, Bell employees joined with other housing providers for the annual Point in Time Count. In a light-to-heavy drizzle in the early morning of January 25, teams traveled to pre-determined designated areas around the perimeter of York City to look for signs of people experiencing homelessness. One team included Lori Leister, Bell’s […]
Linda Lehr was a long-time supporter of Bell, offering many useful in-kind gifts to help out the Bell Family Shelter over the years. She instilled that same sense of compassion in her daughter, Lisa, who followed in her mother’s footsteps and now supports Bell Family Shelter and is passing along the spirit of giving to […]
Thanks to a grant from the PepsiCo Foundation (read more here), Bell’s NextDoor program is able to provide emergency food provisions to local families. NextDoor program participants receive case management support, which may include rental assistance and connections to other important resources, as they are navigating imminent eviction or existing homelessness. The grant allows us […]
Are you looking for a judgment-free environment where you can unwind, meet other people, and be yourself? If so, Bell’s Drop-In Center is the place to be! Originally started as a mental health program for users of CHIPP*, Drop-In now serves people from all around the Bell family, including people with no other affiliation with […]
At 7:30 AM this past Saturday, September 23, roughly 300 runners jogged the streets of a rainy York, PA to warm up for the run ahead of them. Thirty minutes later, they all took off from the starting line undeterred by the weather – if anything, the mist was described by some as “refreshing.” The […]
This very special Saturday has been adopted by our friends from the York White Rose Run! Today, about 350 runners and volunteers will descend upon the streets of York to raise money for Bell Socialization! (They’ll be taking off from the finish line around the time this post goes up!) Representatives from Bell will also […]