Member Agencies
The following are member agencies of the Chelsea United Way - click on any agency to learn more about them:
Amreican Red Cross
The American Red Cross in Southeastern Michigan offers many community services that help ease human suffering, improve the quality of life, and develop individual self-reliance and concern for others. The Red Cross in the past few years has donated numerous defibulators to the Chelsea School District.
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Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County has been dedicated to improving the lives of our community's most vulnerable citizens since 1959. Serving thousands of individuals and families each year, Agency programs reflect the diverse issues facing our community: preventing child abuse and domestic violence, family therapy, adoption and pregnancy counseling, homelessness prevention, and services designed for older adults and at risk families.
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Chelsea Helpline
The Chelsea Helpline provides a crisis phone number for the Chelsea community. The Chelsea Helpline advertises the phone number by print ads, posters, and other methods throughout the Chelsea area. The phone is answered by a phone service located at U of M Hospitals in a cooperative effort between Washtenaw County Community Mental Health and the U of M Psychiatric Emergency Services.
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Chelsea Recreation Council
The mission of Chelsea Recreation is to provide the youths of the Chelsea School District with year round, affordable opportunities to develop life long leisure skills. The direction of the youth's sports program is to provide a wholesome, fun filled learning atmosphere devoted to mastering physical and emotional skills. The program is not intended as a training ground for future stars, but as an age appropriate opportunity to develop and grow while creating an overall healthy foundation.
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Chelsea Senior Center
The Chelsea Senior Center exists to promote, encourage, and organize activities to address the physical, social, and emotional concerns of area Senior Citizens and their families.
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Faith in Action
Chelsea Faith in Action is a nonprofit community supported service agency that provides the following services for Chelsea Area Residents: Meels on Wheels (over 9,000 meals annually); Emergency assistance; Parent-to-Parent program; Parent Anonymous program;information, referrals, and counseling; Senior-youth program; Preschool scholarships; and crisis intervention.
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Great Sauk Trail
Chelsea United Way supports the local Boy Scouts by supporting their parent organization, the Great Sauk Trail of the Boy Scouts of America.
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Help Source
Help Source offers two programs for the Chelsea community, the Help Source Clear House Program and Help Source Counseling Services. The Help Source Clear House Program is an outpatient chemical dependency program for adults. A four-phase treatment program offers the following services: complete clinical/medical assessment, narcotic detoxification, individual, family & group therapy, educational sessions, introduction to 12-step programs, after-treatment support, an alumni association and an intensive 12-week women's day treatment program.. Help Source Counseling Services offers outpatient mental health services to individual adults, adolescents, children, couples and families at two locations in Ann Arbor and Plymouth. Clients may call either office for an initial appointment with experienced, highly skilled Master's level therapists. Supplemental psychiatric services are available. Clients are also assisted in accessing other HelpSource programs, such as substance abuse and adult day services, as needed.
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Hope Clinic
Hope Clinic of Chelsea is a reduced rate clinic that is run out of the Faith In Action building by Dr. Diane Howlin. Chelsea United Way is prowd to sponsor this new clinic (2004).
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Huron Valley Child Guidance
Huron Valley Child Guidance provides a range of mental health services to children and adolescents (ages birth to 18) and their families. Services include assessment, and treatment of children and their families utilizing individual, family & group therapy, crisis intervention, psychiatric evaluation, medication management, intensive client service management and outreach. The type of treatment to be provided will be determined by the therapist and family together. Infant mental health services and substance abuse assessment and education are also offered. Appointments are also available in Chelsea and Whitmore Lake.
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Girl Scouts of the Huron Valley Council
Chelsea United Way supports their local Girl Scouts by supporting their parent organizations, the Girl Scouts of the Huron Valley Council.
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Parents as Teachers
Parents as Teachers (PAT) is an international early childhood parent education and family support program serving families throughout pregnancy until their child enters kindergarten, usually age 5. The program is designed to enhance child development and school achievement through parent education accessible to all families. It is a universal access model
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St. Lewis Center
In 1908, Father Louis Guanella established the Servants of Charity, an order of Catholic Priests and Brothers that continues his mission today. Through operations such as the St. Louis Center, the Guanellians serve the needs of special people and populations throughout the world. The philosophical basis for the mission is available in a book entitled the "Basic Document for the Guanellian Mission". This document was developed by the the Daughters of St. Mary of Providence, the Servants of Charity, and Guanellian Cooperators and was published in 1995 by Editrice Nuove Frontiere.
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Salvation Army of Washtenaw County
The vision of The Salvation Army is to help change lives for the better...physically, mentally, socially, and spiritually. We strive through our emergency services to help individuals and families reach their full potential in terms of personal self-sufficiency. We encourage people to take responsibility for their own problems and to take a part in solving those problems. Our caseworkers avoid the "band-aid" approach to client services. This means we attempt to find a solution to the underlying causes to a crisis, as well as assess other matters that might impact a person's ability to prevent future crises in their life.
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Washtenaw Association for Community Advocacy
ACA's mission is to ensure that people with disabilities and their families have choices, opportunities and the supports they need to be fully included in community life. ACA advocates for the human, civil and constitutional rights of persons with disabilities, as well as their right to lead self-determined lives.
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WAVE
Our senior citizens remain active with the help of the low-cost transportation furnished by the Western-Washtenaw Area Value Express (WAVE) service. Many riders depend on the WAVE bus as their only form of transportation for medical related trips and social needs.