January is Mental Wellness Month. Please join us in promoting mental wellness this January and throughout 2025! 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
The Adelphi Street shelter opened June 12, 2023, and since opening has provided our guests are able to have breakfast, lunch and dinner. That is over 1,700 meals that we have been able to serve thanks to the support of our community and faith-based partners. We would like to express our deepest gratitude to our… Read More
Thank you to donations from the Country Corner Cafe and Franklin Square Market and Commissioner Dillon Moran, who provided funding, we served a festive holiday meal on Christmas Eve to our guests at the Adelphi Street Shelter! Your generosity helped make the holidays brighter for those experiencing homelessness. We appreciate your support!
Please join us in congratulating Amy Perkins as the December 2024 Staff on the Rise recipient and on her recent promotion to the Supported Housing Program Director! Amy’s leadership skills, and her unwavering commitment and kindness to the individuals she serves exemplify the qualities of a Staff on the Rise recipient. “I’m confident that Amy… Read More
The Riverview ESSHI residents enjoyed a very fun and festive holiday party! Thank you ESSHI staff for putting on such a wonderful event!
Hedgerow House residents enjoyed a very fun and festive holiday party! We appreciate our staff going the extra mile to make the holiday enjoyable for the residents – especially Nicole Smarro, the Program Director of our new Residential Rehabilitation Program for dressing up as Santa!
On Wednesday December 11th, Sybil Newell, RISE Executive Director, and Lindsey Connors, RISE Associate Executive Director, attended the 6th annual Capital Region Gives Back, an event that honors 10 local do-gooders and raises money for the nonprofits they represent. RISE congratulates this year’s honorees. We’d also like to thank the event coordinators for donating the… Read More
RISE staff enjoyed the 2024 holiday party at the Embassy Suites. The party included lively music from our DJ, a get to know the director’s trivia contest, raffle prizes, karaoke, and dancing.
RISE would like to thank the Empty Stocking Project a program through The Saratoga County Children’s Committee for the generous donation of gifts for the families our Care Management Team serves. The Empty Stocking Project is the largest and most widely recognized program of the Saratoga County Children’s Committee. There are hundreds of children living within Saratoga… Read More
As winter arrives, hundreds of people remain on the street in Saratoga County. The journey to supportive housing can be difficult, but for some, securing shelter and services is a lifeline. This article was originally published in WAMC Northeast Public Radio. While Saratoga County is one of the fastest-growing regions of New York, and has… Read More
