CASD gets key mental health grant
COATESVILLE — The Brandywine Health Foundation and the Coatesville Area School District (CASD) announced Monday that CASD is just one of four Pennsylvania school districts among 119 state and local educational agencies that will be part of a major national initiative to support teachers, schools, and communities in recognizing and responding to mental health concerns among youth through the Mental...
Brandywine Health Foundation adds new board members
Dr. Linda Thompson Adams of Newtown Square (right) and Fred C.Travaglini of Exton have been named to the board of the Brandywine Health Foundation.
COATESVILLE — The Brandywine Health Foundation announced the addition of two new members — Dr. Linda Thompson Adams of Newtown Square and Fred C.Travaglini of Exton — to its volunteer Board of Directors, Wednesday.
Since its inception in May 2001,...
Art Partners founder wins Unsung Hero Award
Lindsay Brinton awarded for her role in connecting youth with arts
By Kyle Carrozza, Staff Writer, The Times
Lindsay Brinton (left) accepts her Unsung Hero Award from presenter Regina Horton-Lewis (right).
COATESVILLE – Lindsay Brinton, founder of Art Partners Studio, was awarded the Unsung Heroes Award at Saturday’s Brandywine Health Foundation block party.
Brinton, who founded the nonprofit...
Brandywine Health Foundation gives grant to library
Pictured left to right: Frances M. Sheehan, President/CEO Brandywine Health Foundation; Dr. Cathy Taschner, Coatesville Area School District Superintendent, and Dr. Lut Nero, Director, Coatesville Area Public Library.
COATESVILLE — The Brandywine Health Foundation recently provided a $2,841.06 grant to the Coatesville Area Public Library to purchase books for the Coatesville Area School District’s...
Community Dental, Ches Penn to merge operations
The new, combined leadership of Community Dental-Ches Penn gather in front of the Brandywine Center in Coatesville to celebrate the merger of the two organizations, allowing for more patients to be served in the local community. Pictured: Jaclyn Gleber, Karen Breitmayer, Tamara Fox,Mike Lucas, Candy Harkins, Susan Harris, Susan Sullivan, Regina Lewis
COATESVILLE — Chester County Community Dental...
Brandywine Health Foundation announces $125K in grants
Coatesville Library, Coatesville Youth Initiative, Rotary, Thorndale Fire Co, among recipients
COATESVILLE — The Brandywine Health Foundation announced grants Tuesday totaling $125,042, bringing the foundation’s giving since it began awarding grants in 2002 to over $12.3 million, including $1.5 million in grants in 2014.
Frances M. Sheehan, President and CEO of the Brandywine Health Foundation...
Letter: Strawberry Fest a record breaking success
To the Editor,
It is with great pride and gratitude that we are able to report that this year’s Strawberry Festival was a record breaking success! Thanks to generous underwriting support from PECO and First Niagara, Brandywine Hospital, hundreds of volunteers who planned and worked throughout the four-day event, and the many businesses and non-profit organizations donating time and money, the income...
At fund-raiser, rain threatens, magic prevails
Venetian-themed Garden Party kicks off Strawberry Festival
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times
A gondola and strolling musicians helped set the tone for the Brandywine Health Foundations’s 2014 Venetian-themed Garden Party.
If you consider the fact that canals surround Venice, then the rain that threatened this year’s Brandywine Health Foundation Garden Party didn’t seem out...
Coatesville area gets new drug collection boxes
Joint initiative aims to keep medicine from being abused, polluting waterways
Coatesville Police Sgt. Rodger Ollis demonstrates the ease with which residents can dispose of unused medication.
Health and law-enforcement experts warn that the path to heroin addiction often starts in family medicine cabinets.
The reason? Once people develop a dependence on prescription medication, they are motivated...
Brandywine Health helps residents enroll for insurance
Local organizations aid navigation of Affordable Care Act enrollment
By Kyle Carrozza, Staff Writer, The Times
Resources for Human Development staff members monitor the sign in desk at the Brandywine Health Foundation building.
COATESVILLE – The Brandywine Health Foundation assisted in signing up 38 people for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act at an enrollment event Tuesday afternoon...
