Leadership conference raises funds for United Way

The Mor­row County Repub­li­cans and Michael McVey held a Per­for­mance Lead­er­ship Class on Octo­ber 4th and 5th directed towards assist­ing the pub­lic, pri­vate and non-profit busi­nesses toward a tal­ent per­for­mance leadership.

Nearly $1500 was raised through 25 par­tic­i­pants and dona­tions to help sup­port the local Mor­row County United Way.

Keynote speak­ers were Pat Tiberi, US Con­gress­man, 12th dis­trict; Dave Burke, Ohio Sen­a­tor for 26th dis­trict; Ohio Fed­er­a­tion of Repub­li­can women pres­i­dent Jean Turner and Vice Pres­i­dent Lynn Bliss; and Jef­frey McClain, Ohio Rep­re­sen­ta­tive for the 82nd district.

Agen­cies that the Mor­row County United Way helps are: Mary­Haven, Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts, Seniors on Cen­ter, Helpline, Food Pantry, Turn­ing Point, Mar­ion Shel­ter, Amer­i­can Red Cross and Recov­ery & Pre­ven­tion Resources.

Mary­Haven: Their mis­sion is to help men, women and chil­dren restore their lives when those lives have been inter­rupted by addic­tive or men­tal ill­ness. They are cen­tral Ohio’s old­est most com­pre­hen­sive behav­ioral health­care orga­ni­za­tion spe­cial­iz­ing in treat­ment for addic­tive ill­ness. A pri­vate, non-profit 501 © 3 cor­po­ra­tion gov­erned by vol­un­teer board of direc­tors. They receive rev­enues from alco­hol, drug and men­tal health ser­vices boards in Franklin County, Delaware-Morrow men­tal health and recov­ery ser­vices boards. National Insti­tute on drug abuse; city of Colum­bus Com­mu­nity Shel­ter Board, Ohio Dept of Alco­hol and drug addic­tion ser­vices; Franklin County dept of Job and Fam­ily Ser­vices and the United Way of Cen­tral Ohio, Delaware and Mor­row County.

Girl Scouts: They build courage, con­fi­dence and char­ac­ter in girls through scout­ing. Also pro­vides an empow­er­ing lead­er­ship pro­gram with activism in entre­pre­neur­ial skills, finan­cial lit­er­acy, sci­ence, arts, healthy liv­ing and envi­ron­men­tal part­ner­ing thru lead­er­ship devel­op­ment, advo­cacy and com­mu­nity outreach.

Boy Scouts: To serve oth­ers by help­ing instill val­ues in young peo­ple and pre­pare them to make eth­i­cal choices over their life­time by achiev­ing their full poten­tial thru scout­ing pro­grams which encour­age, help­ful­ness, trust­wor­thi­ness, loy­alty, cour­te­ous, obe­di­ent, cheer­ful, strong, brave and thrifty.

Mor­row County Ser­vices for Older Cit­i­zens (Seniors on Cen­ter): Ser­vices are pro­vided to any senior (60+) liv­ing in Mor­row County, how­ever, need not be a res­i­dent of Mor­row County to attend activ­i­ties. Com­mit­ment to assist­ing the frail elderly who choose to remain at home by pro­vid­ing home based ser­vices. The goal is to pro­mote and enhance the great­est pos­si­ble level of choice, inde­pen­dence and self care of the indi­vid­ual and to pro­mote com­mu­nity liv­ing when appro­pri­ate and fea­si­ble in terms of cost and qual­ity for seniors who can remain inde­pen­dently on their own for as long as possible.

1. Con­gre­gate meals and home deliv­ered meals

2. Trans­po­rata­tion

3. Social­iza­tion

4. Infor­ma­tion and referrals

Helpline: To address emo­tional, finan­cial and infon­na­tional needs of the com­mu­nity by empow­er­ing peo­ple with sup­port, knowl­edge and resources. Con­crete cost sav­ing ben­e­fits to com­mu­nity of Mor­row County by using vol­un­teers. Helpline is com­mit­ted to serv­ing the pub­lic with respect and car­ing for peo­ple as well as edu­cat­ing them thru refer­rals with non-judgmental approach.

1. Infor­ma­tion about refer­rals to human ser­vices for every­day crisis

2. Cen­tral­ized source of accu­rate con­nec­tions to appro­pri­ate com­mu­nity agen­cies and pro­grams based on iden­ti­fied needs.

3.Response to callers at risk for suicide

4. Pro­fes­sion­ally trained spe­cial­ist to assess caller sit­u­a­tions, prob­lem solve, safty plan, reas­sure, give cri­sis sup­port, infon­na­tion pro­vi­sion, advo­cacy and refer­ral giv­ing that is free & con­fi­den­tial. (after hours access 24/7 for 365 days a year with an easy to remem­ber num­ber — 211).

Food Pantry: Develop and expand ser­vices to meet estab­lished emer­gency needs as stated in law with objec­tives of the ERC. Those ser­vices will con­sist of pro­vid­ing tem­po­rary assis­tance such as food, cloth­ing, fur­ni­ture and equip­ment, fuel or shelter.

1. Food pantry pro­vides food up to a 3 day period

2. Ser­vice a tran­sient or home­less person

A. In 2011, 9,933 individuals

B. In 2010, 9,877 individuals

C. In 2009, 9,859 individuals

D. In 2008, 9,119 individuals

Turn­ing Point: Responds to the needs of vic­tims of domes­tic vio­lence by pro­vid­ing shel­ter, coun­sel­ing, advo­cacy and gen­eral sup­port ser­vices and to iden­tify and con­front causes of domes­tic violence.

1. Shel­ter

2. Out­reach programs

3. Com­mu­nity Education

4. Pro­vide refer­rals as needed

Mar­ion Shelter:

Their mis­sion is to sup­port com­mu­ni­ties com­pas­sion­ately, by address­ing the needs of the home­less indi­vid­u­als and fam­i­lies with a safe shel­ter, basic needs and neces­si­ties. They will help struc­ture self suf­fi­ciency for clients to give them a place to stay for up to 90 days while sta­bi­liz­ing dur­ing a cri­sis. They have 2 shelter’s one for men and another for women and fam­i­lies. They offer peo­ple meals, cloth­ing, place to bath & do laun­dry. This shel­ter man­dates phys­i­cal clean­li­ness, sobri­ety from ille­gal drugs and alco­hol, They require manda­tory job searches, sav­ings accounts, bud­get train­ing & pre­ven­tion train­ing as needed. They also place manda­tory com­ple­tion goals. They pro­vide resources for area coun­sel­ing, Job & Fam­ily Ser­vices, Chil­dren Ser­vices and oth­ers such as Good Will Indus­tries. Amer­i­can Red Cross:

A human­i­tar­ian orga­ni­za­tion lead by vol­un­teers, guided by con­gres­sional chap­ter and fun­da­men­tal prin­ci­ples of and Inter­na­tional Move­ment. It pro­vides relief to vic­tims of dis­as­ter and will help peo­ple pre­vent, pre­pare for and respond to emer­gen­cies thru

1. Blood Drive

2. Com­mu­nity Services

3. Health and Safety Services

4. Armed Forces Emer­gency Services

5. Vol­un­teer Ser­vices (97% of the work­force is volunteer)

6. Dis­as­ter Ser­vice and much more

Recov­ery & Pre­ven­tion Resources:

The mis­sion of Recov­ery & Pre­ven­tion Resources is to pro­vide a range of behav­ioral health ser­vices, with an empha­sis on pro­vid­ing the high­est qual­ity alco­hol and other drug treat­ment, inter­ven­tion, pre­ven­tion and edu­ca­tion ser­vices to all cit­i­zens. The recog­ni­tion that alco­holism and chem­i­cal depen­dency as treat­able con­di­tions and view pre­ven­tion of alco­hol and other drug prob­lems as an opti­mum out­come, fol­lowed closely by early inter­ven­tions where appro­pri­ate and pos­si­ble. Ser­vices pro­vided are Alco­hol and other drug treat­ment pro­grams, pre­ven­tion and com­mu­nity edu­ca­tion pro­grams and ado­les­cent inter­ven­tion pro­grams which include assess­ment, indi­vid­ual and group coun­sel­ing, cri­sis inter­ven­tion, drug screen­ing, med­ical somatic ser­vices, inten­sive out­pa­tient pro­gram ser­vices and case man­age­ment ser­vices to coor­di­nate each clients par­tic­i­pa­tion in treat­ment linkag~ with other com­mu­nity resources.

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