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The grant addressed a top community need on Beaver Island for home health care aides and provided for education and training for three Island residents to become certified as home health aides. Plus, the grant attracted a national home healthcare firm to service Beaver Island and the firm, Comfort Keepers, hired the three grant participants. Attracting a national agency added more depth and breadth to the offerings available to Island seniors. Ann Partridge, Managing Director of the BIRHC summed up the grant’s impact by sharing, “The grant addressed a critical need, provided employment opportunities for three residents, and underscored the value of the Community Priority grants program and C3F.” A fourth resident is being trained and certified now, which will mean that four home health aides will be residing and practicing on Beaver Island, greatly improving the lives of senior residents and allowing them more freedom and flexibility in their sunset years.

Pictured, left to right: Bethany Korbel, Comfort Keepers General Manager; Briana Maudrie, Lonnie Allen, and Frankie Lamb, newly certified home health aides; and Ian Straley, Comfort Keepers Territory Manager.