Bridgehaven Mental Health Services:
Bridgehaven provides the highest quality community based psychiatric rehabilitation and recovery services for adults with severe and persistent mental illness. The lives of Bridgehaven members are enhanced by encouraging them to achieve the skills to live, work, and socialize in their chosen environment.
Scope of Work
Volunteers:
- Re-constructed raised planting beds for ease of working height for members.
- Created a vertical garden space on a fence for growing climbing vegetables.
- Performed general repair and update of the storage shed area.
- Planted a perennial flower garden area near the building for beauty and enjoyment from gazebo seating area.
Heuser Hearing Institute:
Heuser Hearing Institute's mission is to provide comprehensive quality hearing services in one centralized location to any adult or child experiencing a hearing loss and ear-related disorders. Heuser Hearing & Language Academy is a private, non-profit, comprehensive educational community that exists to empower children with hearing loss and speech and language delays to reach their full potential and to effectively participate in the larger community.
Scope of Work
Volunteers:
- Pruned ornamental plant material
- Distributed mulch to planting islands, entrance areas, and front foundation
- Weeded
- Placed ornamental stone at the front entrance slope
- Planted tulips, perennials, and roses
Approximate retail value: $6,000
The Center for Women and Families:
The Center for Women and Families helps victims of intimate partner abuse or sexual violence to become survivors through supportive services, community education, and cooperative partnerships that foster hope, promote self-sufficiency, and rebuild lives.
Scope of Work
Volunteers worked on the following areas:
- Interior courtyard- Created a planting area for perennial plantings and installed bulbs for spring color. They also pruned, weeded, and installed cedar mulch
- Picnic area - Cleaned up staff picnic area and installed decorative stone .
- Front building and main parking lot - Low-maintenance ground cover were added to existing plant material. Volunteers also pruned, weeded, mulched, and cleaned up.
Approximate retail value: $4,000
Englehard Elementary School:
Engelhard Elementary School serves 446 students in grades pre kindergarten through fifth. The school's outdoor areas are in need of repair as a result of the many cost-cutting decisions that have impacted the budgets of many public and government agencies and institutions.
Scope of Work
Participants will be helping in two areas, an elementary playground and the completion of a previously unfinished landscaped area. The playground was in need of new playground mulch both for aesthetics as well as safety. There was an insufficient amount of mulch to protect a child if he or she fell off of the play equipment. Several years ago they did some renovations to the building as well as adding a new sidewalk and fencing around the playground. As they neared the end of the project the funds ran out and they were only able to complete a portion of the desired landscape. Participants helped to bring the landscape to completion.
Approximate retail value: $4,500
