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Loveland, Ohio – The Little Miami Chamber Alliance says that they are “honored” to be a diaper drop off location for The Care Center.
You can drop off a package/s of diapers (any size) at the Chamber office on West Loveland Avenue and they will make sure the Care Center gets them.
Now through Mother’s Day, you can help make a difference in a young family’s life.
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Join us on August 25th from 6:30 until 9 PM at The Landing Event Center in Historic Downtown Loveland to party with a purpose as we celebrate the lives impacted by the Care Center. There will be great local food, live music, and the opportunity to find out more about the work that we do and how you can partner with us to help even more of our under-resourced neighbors thrive!
Tickets are $50 each or you can buy 6 or more for $40 each and invite your friends. For more info please visit bit.ly/thrivefundraiser.
And thanks to our amazing partners for helping sponsor the event including: Calvary Industries, Christian Brothers Automotive (Loveland), Plum Tree Realty, Northstar Church, Loveland Biggby Coffee, Narrow Path Brewing, Tano Bistro – Loveland, and Loveland Symmes Fire Department!
For the last 15 years the Care Center has been providing care for the whole person to help our neighbors thrive in life. We offer physical, emotional, educational, relational and spiritual support. We are available to anyone who has need, no matter where they live. Check out carecenterinfo.com for hours, directions, services and how you can help.
Loveland, Ohio – Dress for Success Cincinnati has announced that The Care Center of Loveland is their new satellite location for the StyleHER program.
For the past 15 years, the Care Center has been assisting families by helping them remove the barriers and build the resources needed to thrive in life. Located at 11020 South Lebanon Road in Loveland, The Care Center will now be offering DFSC styling services to residents of the Loveland and neighboring communities.
According to Data USA, the largest demographic living in poverty in Loveland is currently women ages 25-34. The hope is that through this partnership, they will be able to tend to that community of women living at or below the poverty line and offer them services that will nurture their employment mobility and help them to thrive.
A strong supporter of this mission is Greg Knake, Executive Director of The Care Center, who recognized the opportunity for Dress for Success Cincinnati and The Care Center to help more women through a partnership early on.
“Our mission is about helping people thrive in life, and one critical way we do that is by helping them reenter the workforce,” Knake said. “We also have a high value for not trying to recreate the wheel, and we instantly identified that Dress for Success Cincinnati already had a model that was successful. It is a perfect fit to incorporate Dress for Success Cincinnati’s services in what we do.”
Through this act of ‘not trying to recreate the wheel’ they have formed a partnership that can utilize the successes of both organizations to further benefit women. The Care Center of Loveland is a state-of-the-art resource center offering beneficial services such as childcare and transportation that help to eliminate major barriers that stand in the way of women receiving this support.
As childcare is a service that is not currently offered by Dress for Success Cincinnati, they can now offer it to their clients at The Care Center’s location. Not only have they expanded the range of women they are able to serve but have expanded the accessibility for women to utilize the services as well.
“We want to be a resource for people who want to take advantage of Dress for Success Cincinnati’s resource but may not have the reliable transportation to access the Norwood location,” Knake said. “We are excited to offer Dress for Success Cincinnati’s resources in areas like Milford, Goshen, and Loveland.”
In addition to offering DFSC styling services at The Care Center, the new satellite location will also offer similar career assistance to that of Dress for Success Cincinnati’s Norwood office. Just as the DFSC office has partnered with Cincinnati Works to provide help with resume building, job searching, and more via an on-site Cincinnati Works representative, The Care Center will offer the same opportunity for clients.
“We also offer career development resources through Cincinnati works and even work with the same Cincinnati works representative,” Knake said. “So, clients will have that same opportunity when they come here to be styled.”
Dress for Success Cincinnati said that they are thrilled to launch this new satellite location and to be working with Knake and his team at The Care Center to offer their services, along with the added benefits that come from this new location to more women in surrounding areas.
To learn more about The Care Center or schedule your styling appointment, visit The Care Center’s website here.
by Terri Rogers
On August 19th, The Loveland Initiative continued to push our mission forward to provide educational support and assistance to underserved children and their families. We held our 24th annual backpack program for the 2020-2021 school year providing students with new backpacks filled with school supplies.
Terri Rogers is the Executive Director of the Loveland Initiative
Due to the COVID 19 pandemic, the backpack program functioned differently this year. We made several changes to ensure that we had a safe program for our donors, partners, and the families we serve.
This year we teamed up with an amazing group, The Care Center at Northstar Community Church. Their mission is to provide CARE for the whole person as we help people remove barriers for success and build the resources needed to get to the next place in life.
Over 180 families received personal hygiene, cleaning supplies, and paper goods at The Care Center, and more than 200 backpacks filled with school supplies provided to kids through The Loveland Initiative via a drive-thru format.
A HUGE thank you to The Care Center for hosting the program and for the use of their facility. A HUGE thank you our donors who collected backpacks, monetary donations and/or supplies. A HUGE thank you to ALL our volunteers, YOU were invaluable! A HUGE thank you to Loveland Magazine for their publicity support. Without the support from our awesome community we could not do what we do.
Once again, thank you for making our 24th annual backpack program an enormous success!!
The Loveland Initiative is a 501(c)(3) registered charity. For more information on The Loveland Initiative, please contact Terri Rogers at trogers7@fuse.net or www.lovelandinitiative.org and our Facebook page.
Loveland, Ohio – Loveland Community Resources recently conducted a survey to help understand the needs of our community and forecast future needs. They are sharing this information with the organizations that support our community to help them with future planning.
“The good news is that, at this time, our local agencies have enough volunteers to cover the current level of need. We will keep you posted if that changes. If you would like to donate items to local agencies please check their websites for current needs: Care Center, LIFE Food Pantry NEST Community Learning Center”
Loveland, Ohio – The Care Center is hosting a personal hygiene, cleaning supplies and paper goods drive on May 9 from 10 AM until noon. This will be a drive-thru format.
11020 S Lebanon Rd
Loveland, OH 45140
From Greg Knake the Outreach Pastor and Care Center Director:
