This week we have three HEROES Linda Mayhew, Emily Veele and Eren Phelps! We want to thank them for all their hard work and help with Operation Good Cheer for our Muskegon foster care program last month!  December 2019 marked the 49th year of making Christmas wishes come true for foster care children in Michigan.  Thousands of generous volunteers gather annually to participate in Operation Good Cheer collecting donated gifts and delivering them to the children and youth in foster care across Michigan. Thank you; Linda, Emily and Eren for your part in that great project!

CLIENT TESTIMONIAL

“Holy Cross knows how to treat us. People tend to think that kids in foster care are needy and don’t have normal lives like everyone else. They (Holy Cross staff) don’t think of us like that. They treat us like who we are – normal kids who are just having a hard time in life. That’s what else is great about the staff here. They don’t pretend like everything is okay when we first arrive. They understand that this is a very hard process. They sit us down and ask, ‘Are you okay?’ The staff actually care about us, and understand that it isn’t easy to adapt right away.”

Here are some pictures of new construction at our New Hope Community Center where the new behavioral health offices are going in !