Park Center Receives Grant From The Baptist Healing Trust

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Aug. 7, 2013 - PRLog -- Park Center Receives Grant from The Baptist Healing Trust

 

Park Center recently received a grant from The Baptist Healing Trust, which awarded funds totaling almost $1,200,000 in its most recent grant cycle.  “We are proud to help support 29 local non-profits working to create access to quality, compassionate health services for the community’s most vulnerable residents,” said Dr. Cathy Self, BHT President & CEO. 

 

Park Center’s grant was for $37,000 and will be used to support Park Center’s Clinical Director’s salary.   Since 1984, Park Center has provided a safe, non-judgmental and compassionate environment for people with mental illness to come and work on their own recovery.  By offering a wide variety of services, each person who chooses Park Center can begin their recovery by identifying their strengths and learn how to build on those strengths to live the best possible life they can – one day at a time for a lifetime. “The Baptist Healing Trust has supported Park Center’s mission of recovery since 2006 and positively impacted the lives of adults with mental illness and co-occurring disorders in our community,” said Barbara Quinn, Park Center President & CEO.

               

The mission of the Baptist Healing Trust, a private grant making foundation, is the sacred work of fostering healing and wholeness for vulnerable populations through strategic investing, philanthropy, and advocacy. Recipients of the contributions include non-profit organizations from 40 counties in Middle Tennessee that focus on physical health, mental health, recovery from alcohol and drug abuse or healing from abuse, neglect, and violence.  This year’s grants bring the collective grant making of the Baptist Healing Trust to over $61 million since 2002.  The Baptist Healing Trust was created when Baptist Hospital in Nashville was sold to St. Thomas Health Services, a ministry of Ascension Health in St. Louis, Missouri.