Press Releases
DATE: 4 March 2010
RELEASE NO:10-03
HealthCorps members give back on MLK Day
By Linda L. Williams
ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- Monday, Jan. 18, 2010 was Martin Luther King Day. It wasn’t a leisure day for Grace Hill Neighborhood Health Centers’ Community HealthCorps members though. HealthCorps is part of the AmeriCorps organization, and members teamed up with the United Way and AmeriCorps St. Louis to hold a service project at St. John U.C.C. Church, located at 4136 N. Grand. HealthCorps members assisted in painting the church.
The United Way’s, “Live The Dream-Live United” is an intergenerational, interfaith, multicultural initiative engaging volunteers in service projects and civic dialogue throughout the Greater St. Louis region. It is inspired by the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
In addition, HandsOn Network, which is an organization that “inspires, equips and mobilizes people to take action that changes the world,” selected St. Louis as one of locations to film and air a portion of the service project live. Members were also featured during a news story on KMOV Channel 4 later that evening that described MLK Day events throughout the St. Louis community.
A part of St. Louis for more than 100 years, Grace Hill Health Centers, Inc. (GHHC) is a federally qualified health center and provides low-cost, primary and preventive health care at six locations to primarily low-income and uninsured residents in the City of St. Louis and St. Louis County. GHHC is accredited through the Joint Commission.
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