The Chase Home recently received a $2,800 donation from The 1623 Foundation, a Portsmouth-based local charitable organization founded by 10 local seacoast residents in 2022. “Chase Home was our inaugural vote winner,” said Co-Founder James Tobin, who said their name is “a play on the year in which Portsmouth was settled.”
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One of the unique aspects about The Chase Home is length of employment of some staff, especially in leadership roles, a fact that Executive Director Meme Wheeler said helps produce “stronger therapeutic and clinical outcomes.”
“The workforce shortage is real, so there are challenges for us, but we have been fortunate that some staff members have been with us for years,” she said.
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On November 8, The Chase Home held the 8th Annual Wine & Chocolate Tasting Presented by LeMay Family Goodworks and Hosted by Jimmy’s Jazz & Blues Club.
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A contestant on the current season of NBC’s The Voice!, Cara Brindisi will perform live at The Chase Home’s 8th Annual Wine & Chocolate Tasting on Tuesday, November 8. A Worcester, MA singer and Shrewsbury, MA native, Brindisi has opened for acts, such as Tower of Power, Chris Isaak, Dispatch, Mitch Chakour, and Adam Lambert.
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In May, The Chase Home launched ‘Pave the Way Forward’ to raise funds to repave its rapidly deteriorating driveway, a campaign that has met with success. “We are thrilled to have a new driveway,” noted Meme Wheeler, executive director of The Chase Home. “This is a project that was long overdue.”
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At The Chase Home’s 8th Annual Wine & Chocolate Tasting at Jimmy’s Jazz & Blues Club in Portsmouth on Tuesday, November 8, chocolate will figuratively, if not literally, take center stage. Participating chocolatiers at this year’s 8th Annual Wine & Chocolate Tasting include Enna Chocolate, La Cascade du Chocolat, and Wm Poole Confections.
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On Tuesday, November 8, LeMay Family Goodworks will present The Chase Home’s 8th Annual Wine & Chocolate Tasting at Jimmy’s Jazz & Blues Club in Portsmouth. Since its inception, the annual wine and chocolate fundraiser has raised more than $250,000 to support programs and services at The Chase Home. Founded in 1877, The Chase Home […]
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Offering programs in the community as well as serving as an actual home for at-risk youth in crisis, The Chase Home recently received a $2,500 grant from Northeast Delta Dental. The grant will support The Chase Home’s Food Program, which is led by Kitchen Manager Andre Owens. “Andre is wonderful—he makes everything from scratch,” said […]
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Building off the success of “Homeruns that Count,” a community action program at Partners Bank in which it received $600 in August, The Chase Home has launched ‘Hit a Home run for the Kids’ in September. The campaign, according to Executive Director Meme Wheeler, addresses three interrelated needs of the kids served by The Chase […]
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This summer, The Chase Home in Portsmouth received a $50,000 2022 Angel Grant from Foundation for Seacoast Health. Criteria for selection for the award was that organizations “must improve the health and wellbeing of individuals in one or more of the nine communities within the Foundation’s service area.” These communities include Portsmouth, Newington, New Castle, […]
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