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Contact: Jessica Myers, Marketing and CEC Director, 419-782-3510, jessica@unitedwaydefiance.org
PROMEDICA DEFIANCE REGIONAL HOSPITAL MONARCH FUND SUPPORTS UNITED WAY OF DEFIANCE COUNTY EFFORTS
Defiance, Ohio (April 7, 2020) – The ProMedica Foundation Board allocated monies from its Monarch Fund and approved two requests in support of United Way of Defiance County COVID-19 Emergency Fund. United Way of Defiance County (UWDC) serves as the fiscal sponsor of the Monarch Fund, a ProMedica Defiance Regional Hospital foundation fund set aside to address health and human services in Defiance County.
Maumee Valley Guidance Center and Recovery Services of Northwest Ohio, Inc. will receive funds to support their efforts with clients they are serving. Maumee Valley Guidance Center will use $3,850.00 on medical needs that its current clients are unable to meet due to restricted employment. The current stay-at-home order has put financial strains on several clients.
Recovery Services of Northwest Ohio will receive $5,000.00 to pay for substance abuse and mental health assessments, individual counseling, medication, management, and psychiatry services for both adolescents and adults via telemedicine/telephone who may be out of work and without health insurance and do not qualify for any other means of assistance.
“As an essential business, we are committed to continuing our service delivery and want to ensure we reach out to our high-risk clients during this stay-at-home order. Clients do not have to leave their home to get care. Clients do not have to feel they are alone in this,” explained Ruth Peck, executive director of Recovery Services of Northwest Ohio.
For further information and services from these two agencies, please reach out to them directly.
- Maumee Valley Guidance Center, 211 Biede Ave., Defiance, OH; 419-782-8856
- Recovery Services of Northwest Ohio, 511 Perry St., Defiance, OH; 419-782-9920
Since the inception of the United Way of Defiance County COVID-19 Emergency Fund, five local agencies have received additional funding in the amount of $23,850. For additional information on funding, local partners, and how to donate, please visit www.unitedwaydefiance.org, call 419-782-3510, or email carrie@unitedwaydefiance.org or jessica@unitedwaydefiance.org.