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June 19, 2024
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Savannah Speech and Hearing Center Receives Mini Grant from United Way of the Coastal Empire

Savannah Speech and Hearing Center (SSHC) is proud to announce we received the 2024 Women United Transportation Fund Mini-Grant from United Way of the Coastal Empire to help eliminate transportation barriers in our community. United Way of the Coastal Empire’s Women Who Rule event, held annually in March, raises funds for residents across our region who need dependable transportation.

United Way’s Women United Transportation Fund connects community members to dependable transportation to get to work, school, medical appointments, and vital access to resources like food, job training, and other important services. The fund provides gas cards, bus passes, and may even cover minor car repairs to ensure reliable transportation.

“This funding makes a profound difference to the women and families who receive it. It helps a multiple stroke survivor make it to her various medical appointments as well as our weekly support group for survivors of stroke and TBI. It allows a single mom to get herself to nursing school, to bring her son to his rehabilitation appointments here at our Center, to his school programs and then bring them both back home safely at the end of the day. We’re so grateful to United Way for enabling us to come to the aid of our clients who need it the most,” says Outreach Coordinator, Jenna Harcher.

ABOUT SAVANNAH SPEECH AND HEARING:

Since 1954, Savannah Speech and Hearing has been committed to providing comprehensive speech, hearing, language and other therapeutic services that empower and transform the lives of both children and adults, regardless of financial abilities. SSHC offers a wide range of programs including Sound Start, our early intervention auditory/verbal program for children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, as well as audiology, speech, pediatric occupational and physical therapies, hearing aids, cochlear implants, informational resources, a stroke and traumatic brain injury survivors’ support group and other specialized programs. SSHC speech-language pathologists and audiologists are certified by the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA), occupational therapists are certified by the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA), physical therapists by the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) and all are licensed by the Georgia State Professional Licensing Board. For more information, please see www.speechandhearingsav.org or call 912.355.4601.

ABOUT UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE

The mission of United Way of the Coastal Empire is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community. United Way is a volunteer-driven organization serving Bryan, Chatham, Effingham, and Liberty counties that involves hundreds of community leaders, professionals, and other volunteers in every aspect of our business, including fundraising, marketing, and funding decisions, to ensure that donations are truly making a difference. Thanks to the Herschel V. Jenkins Trust Fund and other income, most of the operating expenses of the organization are covered, allowing more donor contributions to go where they’re most needed in service to the community. For more information, please visit www.uwce.org.