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Checking In With Friendship Community By Dayna M. Reidenouer

What do you appreciate most about your dad? What makes him the best? Make your dad smile with an early Father’s Day gift by sharing your answers to these questions, along with a cherished memory and/or photo, at www.townlively.com/ fathers-day-form/. Your tributes will be posted on townlively.com in time for Father’s Day, June 21!

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Members from a Friendship Community residential home had fun participating in the organization’s “Black & White Day,” a themed day celebrating humor and unity within the organization.

Tabor And LHOP - Merging For Good

The Founding Of A Legacy

By Ann Mead Ash

By Ann Mead Ash

In early May, two Lancaster titans of nonprofit affordable housing decided they would be stronger together. Board members of Tabor Community Services and Lancaster Housing Opportunity Partnership (LHOP) voted to approve Shelby Nauman (left), Lancaster Housing Opportunimerging the two ty Partnership’s COO and interim CEO, and Tabor organizations. Community Services president Mike McKenna, are Together they will build on a foundation working to merge the two organizations into a single of 75 years of service entity fighting homelessness in Lancaster. in housing advocacy and financial strong organizations,” said Mike McKenna, Tabor Community Services empowerment to area residents. “With the affordable housing crisis president. Rick Jackson, LHOP board chair, in the backdrop, we approached the important question of merging two noted that the organizations were See Tabor And LHOP pg 2

Sarah Adams, of Lititz, was 16 weeks pregnant with her son, Davin, when she and her husband, Clark, received heartbreaking news in May 2018. “We found out … that he had a rare terminal condition,” recalled Sarah, who noted that her son’s problems were caused by a genetic condition called Noonan’s syndrome. Neither she nor her husband carries the gene for the condition.

In the face of the news, both Sarah and Clark turned to their faith. “We know God can heal, but we know He doesn’t always heal,” said Sarah. “Every week that (Davin) was living and growing and sick, (we thought), ‘Let’s see if See Founding A Legacy pg 3

Board members of Our Baby’s Legacy, a new Lancaster County nonprofit focused on providing support to aid families of pregnancy and infant loss, include (from left) Rashell Brunner, Sarah Adams, and Barb Leese.

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For several months, life has looked a little bit different for Lancaster County residents, and that includes individuals served by Friendship Community, 1149 E. Oregon Road, Lititz. Friendship Community is a faith-based, licensed provider of disability services and has been cultivating the capabilities of intellectually disabled and autistic individuals since 1972. The organization currently serves more than 200 people in various programs, including 27 residential homes, three daytime programs, and those living with their loved ones or independently in Lancaster and Lebanon counties. Friendship employs almost 400 team members whose roles range from direct support professionals and nurses to behavioral specialists and art instructors, as well as a full

complement of administrative staff members. As a result of the shutdown, the day programs - including the Friendship Heart Gallery studio and Meaningful Day Academy - were immediately closed. Instead of Friendship’s clients spending time together in one place, each individual had to stay in his or her respective home. This resulted in staff members having to provide around-the-clock care at each home, when they had not previously done that, and that prompted schedule changes, flexibility, and creativity. Friendship Community also formed an urgent response team to prepare for the possibility of illness. Team members made sure to maintain direct contact with clients, clients’ families, and government authorities at all levels, and they also implemented protocols to See Friendship Community pg 3


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