On Friday, May 5, Seacoast Oral Surgery Center & Lakes Region Oral Surgery Center will host a gala at AC Hotel in Portsmouth with proceeds to benefit The Chase Home and Operation Smile. “We are thrilled to support both organizations,” said Shannon Pietrowicz, implant and public relations coordinator at Seacoast Oral Surgery Center.
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The Chase Home has received a $5,000 grant from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation’s Richard Spence Lockhart Fund. Founded in 1877, The Chase Home in Portsmouth provides at-risk youth across the state with prevention, early intervention, residential, and community-based services.
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The Chase Home recently received a $10,000 general operating support grant from The Webster Foundation. Meme Wheeler, executive director of The Chase Home, referred to the grant as “unexpected.”
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On the first Friday of each month this year, Jersey Mike’s Portsmouth will provide free regular subs to 10 to 15 youth residents who live at The Chase Home.
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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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