Mike Anton & Liz Reincke
The American Cancer Society was founded in 1913 as the American Society for the Control of Cancer (ASCC) by 15 prominent physicians and business leaders in New York City. Today, the ACS has chartered divisions throughout the country and over 3,400 local offices, including a branch in Traverse City. The American Cancer Society is a nationwide community-based voluntary health organization committed to fighting cancer through balanced programs of research, education, patient service, advocacy, and rehabilitation. The American Cancer Society is the nationwide community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer.
For more information visit them online at: www.cancer.org
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Marilyn Taylor & Philip Leete
Bethany Christian Services is a nonprofit, prolife, child-placing agency with an international team of over 900 experienced professionals ministering in 80 locations throughout the United States and in 18 foreign countries. Although Bethany is widely known as an adoption agency, our faith-based care extends to people struggling with unplanned pregnancies, infertility, and a multitude of other personal, marital and family challenges. For more than 60 years, Bethany has responded to the needs of the local community with compassion, integrity, and commitment to the needs of children and families. In northern Michigan, Bethany has been providing this service through our adoption, foster care and counseling services for over 9 years.
For more information visit them online at: www.bethany.org/traversecity
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Bill Marsh, Jr. & Jennifer Howard
In 1999, House of Hope first opened its doors as a walk-in counseling clinic in downtown Traverse City. Since then, it has grown into a Christian, inter-denominational boarding school with an emphasis on restoring teens and their families. House of Hope provides teenagers, ages 12-18, with a Christ-centered education program, supplemented with Christian counseling, administered in a loving, home-style environment. Efforts are made to reconcile and restore teens and their families.
For more information visit them online at: www.houseofhopetc.com
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Lou Grettenberger & Kat Brown
Safe Harbor is a collaborative ministry of more than 15 churches in the Grand Traverse area that provide temporary emergency winter shelter and food for those in need in our community between the months of October and March. Keeping the homeless population safe and warm during the upcoming winter months is the focus of the program. Due to the growing need for these services in the area, area homeless shelters are at capacity, making Safe Harbor essential for those looking to escape the harsh winter elements.
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Brenda Biederman & Tom Morrell
The Traverse Health Clinic and Coalition (THCC) is the name of the recently merged Community Health Clinic, a free clinic in existence in Traverse City for 35 years, and the Grand Traverse Regional Health Care Coalition, formed in 2003 to create programs for access to health services in Benzie, Grand Traverse and Leelanau counties. The mission of THCC is to promote access, with dignity, to comprehensive, affordable health care. This mission is achieved through the direct provision of primary care at the Clinic and the operation of health access programs.
THCC provides a health care home, with free and low cost care, to about 1,500 uninsured people, with 6,000 office visits per year. The volunteer Coalition Health Access Program (CHAP) is the main THCC program, with about 1,500 enrollees. CHAP is a program to assist uninsured adults 19 years and older, who do not qualify for other programs and who meet financial criteria. Health care services provided through CHAP include: access to lab, x-rays and outpatient services at Munson facilities, specialty referrals, and limited medication coverage. THCC also operates a dental access and vision program. Since April 2005, almost $6 million in free health services have been given to uninsured persons in the three counties. THCC relies heavily on volunteerism to provide this much needed health care assistance.
For more information visit them online at: www.traversehcc.com
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Miriam Pico & Jody Brown
The Women’s Resource Center began in 1975 as a grassroots effort to serve survivors of domestic and sexual violence, utilizing an all-volunteer staff. Today, after over 30 years of service, the WRC is known as the area's primary service provider for domestic and sexual violence survivors, assisting residential and non-residential clients with support, advocacy, and immediate crisis intervention. The agency is also the acknowledged area expert on domestic violence and sexual assault and annually provides approximately 150 public awareness, prevention, education and awareness activities for allied professionals and agencies, civic groups and schools.
For more information visit them online at: www.womensresourcecenter.org
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