Articles

• Adult mental health service transfer complete: read more
  
•  Center offers safe place to recover:  The J.C. Lewis Health Center provides care for the homeless.  Here is one man’s story of how this Union Mission organization helped him. read more
  
•  Bread & Butter’s new face:  Changes are cooking up at the café, including Chef Rachel Reese who brings youth and new ideas to the downtown restaurant. read more
  
•  Mental health services provider get funding boost:  Collaborative’s fate still hinges on new fiscal year funding and Medicaid reimbursements. read more
  
  
•  Providing adequate mental health services is a community responsibility:  An editorial by the Rev. Micheal Elliott, CEO of Union Mission, Inc. read more
  
  
• There are things here that we picked yesterday: Union Mission’s farmers market now open every Saturday in June. read more

• From the dirt springs a new life.  Landscaping course offers hope for the homeless, ex-offenders and those clearing life’s hurdles. read more

• Union Mission client, Telethea Tinley prepares for independence, marriage, and a bright future after a lifelong bout with demons. read more

• ‘A today’s chaplain’: Pastoral students develop their own ministerial style in Union Mission’s new program. read more
  
• Who will speak for the kids?:  Chatham County behavioral health group moves to expand child and adolescent services through the community network. read more
  
•  Tensions resurface over health service delivery:  Behavioral health collaborative puts plan in motion for Chatham County’s troubled children and teens despite state’s reluctance. read more
  
• A second chance to keep it clean:  Three year old drug court demands sober lifestyles; nine more graduates tell their stories. read more

• County approves bonds to enhance health systems: $3 million in bonds to finance behavioral health care at J.C. Lewis Health Center, county health department services. read more

• Choices narrowed to four, public will pick new moniker:  The ‘I Can’t believe its’s not the Bread & Butter Café’ will soon have a permanent name. read more

• Local Teens seek to lower number of AIDS cases: Numbers of cases are up compared to the rest of the nation; Pfizer grant touts message of abstinence. read more

• Starfish Café replaces ‘Bread & Butter’ moniker:  The new name signifies the restaurant’s role: ‘making a difference one life at a time.’ read more

• Apartments will house up to 80 homeless:  Union Mission expands its services to include a new property on Middleground Road. read more

• J.C. Lewis Health Center gets federal status, funds:  The designation provides $300,000 annually plus funding for malpractice insurance. read more 
  
• Gateway isn’t doing its job, Elliott says: Union Mission head says local mental health collaborative offers better services-for less money. read more

• We have to get the message to our young people: World AIDS Day. read more

• Review of Reverend Micheal Elliott’s newest book, TOUR OF HOMES read more

• Good news for bad teeth:  A $100,000 grant will help expand the dental program at the J.C. Lewis Health Center. read more

• Ronnie Flournoy left substance abuse and homelessness.  Now he helps others escape from the same trap. read more
  
• Parent & Child is looking for opportunities to merge with other nonprofit groups: read more

• Parent & Child to merge with Union Mission:  After 204 years, the city’s oldest social service agency takes concrete steps toward dissolving. read more

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