Congratulations to Mary Griest, Assistant Director of Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities (IDD) services as she celebrates 25 years of service to Bell! Mary started her career at Bell as a Direct Support Professional in one of our community living homes, getting to know and serving the needs of individuals living in the home. Mary has been a […]
Congratulations to Lisa Bortner, Senior Supervisor of the IDD Social Recreation program, on celebrating her 41st anniversary with Bell. When Lisa was in high school, her sister Jean attended one of Bell’s evening programs. Lisa said, “I volunteered and enjoyed it. So, I started working part-time in the recreation program.” After 40+ years, what is […]
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 […]
A warm shout out to every one of you who donates to and makes purchases at Re-Source York’s home decor and/or home improvements stores! Your support keeps good usable stuff out of the landfill, provides jobs for Bell service users, and a portion of sales from both stores is donated on a quarterly basis to […]
In addition to delivering 100 coats from Operation Warm to our Bell Family Shelter and NextDoor programs this week – in the middle of a cold snap, no less – our friends at Apple Subaru are once again hosting a Sock & Blanket Drive for Bell from January 15 to February 10. Your donations […]
When Donna came to Bell Family Shelter, she had been homeless for over a year. After leaving the house where she had been staying which was in utter disrepair and about to be condemned, she lived on the streets. Throughout the year, she spent time at LifePath’s Women and Children’s Shelter, but her options were […]
Early last month, a York woman called Bell’s Next Door program in a state of desperation. She had just sent her twin children off to college, and her husband of seven years had abandoned her, reducing the household from double to single income at a crucial time. What’s more, her employment had recently ended, and […]
Here at Bell, we’re always looking to support our partners. As a nonprofit aiming to benefit the community, partnering with local organizations is of utmost importance to us. “Being able to hear other’s experiences helps to understand that as a service provider, we all have similar stories,” corroborates Program Coordinator of Next Door Elise Stoner. […]
In August of this year, York Suburban eighth-grader Savannah Hawes decided she wanted to give back to her local community. She and her mother looked into local organizations benefiting kids and teenagers, and Bell was the first that came up. With that, they decided to host a drive for items from our Amazon wish list, […]