In this month's edition:
- Home-based Family Recovery now offered in Allegheny County
- Project LAUNCH seeks to enhance the skills of professionals working with young children
- Stand Together project presentation and recognition
- DHS kicks off DHS Holiday Project Sporting Goods Drive
- Photo: ERO Ribbon Cutting
- Kudos: AAA, OBH and OID staff
- Kudos: Kristin Bolen
- Kudos: Chuck Keenan
- Photo: Nurses Week
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Home-based Family Recovery now offered in Allegheny County
DHS has partnered with Holy Family Institute to offer Home-based Family Recovery, an in-home therapy and substance use disorder treatment designed to help parents overcome substance use disorders while also improving
parent-child relationships
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Project LAUNCH seeks to enhance the skills of professionals working with young children
Scholarships are now available through Project LAUNCH to assist professionals working with young children
and their families
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Stand Together project presentation and recognition
On May 8 and 10, more than 200 students from twelve Allegheny County schools were recognized for their outstanding work on projects they completed while participating in “Stand Together,” an educational campaign created by Allegheny County Department of Human Services to reduce the stigma of
mental illness toward peers
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DHS kicks off DHS Holiday Project Sporting Goods Drive
Starting June 1, DHS will be collecting new sports equipment – baseballs, basketballs, footballs, soccer balls, hockey sticks, helmets and pads, rackets, and outdoor games – for the Holiday Project, which provides meaningful holiday gifts to children in families receiving DHS services related to child
maltreatment and homelessness
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Photo: ERO Ribbon Cutting
On May 4, the East Regional Office (ERO) of the Office of Children, Youth and Families (CYF) partnered with the
Penn Hills Community Development Corporation
to host a ribbon-cutting ceremony in celebration of ERO's new location. Event speakers included Kathy Kaczka, Penn Hills CDC president; Jennifer Liptak, Allegheny County Executive Office chief of staff; Marc Cherna, DHS director; and Walter Smith, Jr., deputy director of CYF. After the speeches and ribbon cutting, local Penn Hills restaurants offered food samples to event attendees.
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Kudos: AAA, OBH and OID staff
Several staff members the DHS Area Agency on Aging (AAA), Office of Behavioral Health (OBH), and Office of Intellectual Disability (OID) were commended for their hard work to relocate 37 residents from a Personal Care Home that had been providing substandard care to safe, clean and caring new homes.
The team members involved in the relocation were Kelly Burkhouse, LuAnn Castro, Megan Dandar, Dennis Govachini, William Harrison, Kalley Hilton, Robin Mieczkowski and Madeline Nagel (AAA); Emil Pyptyk (OBH); and Steve Evrard (OID).
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Kudos: Kristin Bolen
Amy Sula, manager of integration support in the Office of Children, Youth and Families (CYF), received an email commending Kristin Bolen, Child Health Evaluation Coordination Support (CHECs) nurse in the
North Regional Office (NRO)
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Kudos: Chuck Keenan
Chuck Keenan, an administrator in the Bureau of Homeless and Housing Services, was selected by the Veterans Leadership Program of Western Pennsylvania as a 2018 Tribute honoree for his work on the Veteran’s Bootcamp, a project designed to
end veterans’ homelessness
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Photo: Nurses Week
Andrea Bartosiewicz, Susan Profeta, Jennifer Micelli, and Kerry Andros, nurses in the Area Agency on Aging (AAA), joined other Allegheny County nurses at the May 8 regular meeting of County Council to accept a proclamation declaring May 6 through 12 as Nurses Week in Allegheny County.
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We welcome your story ideas, employee news and comments. If you’ve got news you’d like to see in DHS News, please contact Mark Bertolet at
mark.bertolet@alleghenycounty.us
or 412-350-3439.
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