January is Mental Wellness Month. Please join us in promoting mental wellness this January and throughout 2024! Mental Wellness is the ability to cope with life’s stressors while maintaining a good quality of life. It is utilizing the right tools and resources to find resilience when life feels depleting. With your generous support, RISE continues… Read More
Elaina, a RISE Healthy Housing and Support Services Supported Housing resident, shares this dynamic and powerful poem, Immersed in Thought. Writing and creating poetry is a great way for many people to self-affirm their personal power and creativity. Thank you Elaina for sharing your poems with us. Memories flood back as I sit alone… Read More
This article was published in the Saratoga Today Newspaper. Many of us have a limited understanding of homelessness, especially if we’ve never experienced it personally or known someone who has. Our perception is often shaped by what we see in the media or witness in urban areas or at busy street corners. However, homelessness encompasses… Read More
This article was originally published in the Saratogian. At a special City Council meeting earlier this week, $387,000 was awarded to RISE Housing and Support to allow it to continue its work operating its temporary low-barrier shelter on Adelphi Street into the new year. A collaboration between RISE, Julie and Sonny Bonacio of Bonacio Construction… Read More
Thank you, Aili Lopez, Program Director at Create Community Studios, for the arts and crafts classes you bring to our programs at RISE. Last week, Rain House residents had fun making Christmas decorations to add to their tree!
Christmas is merry at Hedgerow House! Santa’s visit was a huge hit; everyone enjoyed a wonderful dinner. Special thanks to Patrick for his talent and creativity in decorating the house!
It is with fond memories and smiling hearts that we bid farewell and happy retirement to Michael LaBelle, Supported Housing Advocate, after 25 years of dedication and service at RISE. Mike began working at RISE and in Supported Housing in October 1998. “I started working half time for Supported Housing because at the time the… Read More
RISE thanks Minister Steve Boxley, of the United Church Saratoga, for his support of the Adelphi Street Shelter. Last Sunday, he and one of his parishioners, Jason Golub, brought donuts and inspirational words to the guests at the Adelphi Street Shelter. Minister Boxley also provides meals, cleaning and hygiene products to the shelter on a… Read More
At the annual Progressive Steps Apartment Program (PSAP) and Supported Housing annual party, residents enjoyed celebrating the holidays in person for the first time since before the pandemic. Thank you to Mike LaBelle, soon-to-be-retired Supported Housing counselor, for playing Santa and passing out the gifts!
Agency staff enjoyed a fun Holiday Party! Thanks to the newly formed party planning committee, the party included music from Joely Miller and her band Stretch, a get-to-know-the-admin team trivia contest, raffle prizes, and karaoke. Thanks to the Embassy Suites Saratoga for the delicious food!
