National Aquarium recaps 2023 achievements and continuing goals in impact report

…”For the fifth year, the aquarium continued its work with the Exeter Street Community Garden in Jonestown, where the Animal Care and Rescue Center is located. Together with the Helping Up Mission and Jonestown residents, the aquarium held volunteer events to plant and weed the garden, and to harvest and distribute its crops.”

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For many recovering from addiction, Thanksgiving is a time of triggers and stress. For one Baltimorean, it’s a chance at redemption.

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As he looks back on the worst of his days recovering from addiction, Jeffery Schneider says, it feels like a miracle that he’s still walking around. The Baltimore painting contractor spent many years emptying his bank account for crack cocaine. A few days before Thanksgiving every year, the…

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Homelessness and Addiction: Two Crises Intrinsically Linked to Each Other

Homelessness and Addiction: Two Crises Intrinsically Linked to Each OtherBy Gregory J. Alexander, Contributing Writer

“Homelessness drives people in here, whether if it’s because they’re on the street or they’re living in
an encampment, or their addiction has just caused their family or other loved ones to just say, ‘Look, you know, you can’t be here anymore,’” says Daniel Stoltzfus, CEO of Helping Up Mission. HUM has impacted the lives of those experiencing homelessness…

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Helping Up Mission wins grant for addiction awareness campaign aimed at women

Helping Up Mission wins grant for addiction awareness campaign aimed at women _ Maryland Daily Record

Helping Up Mission (HUM) on Thursday announced it has received a grant of nearly $350,000 from the Opioid
Operational Command Center (OOCC) to conduct an educational outreach campaign specifically targeted to women
and mothers, encouraging them to seek addiction treatment and wrap-around services through their 250-bed Center
for Women & Children.

Helping Up Mission expands to house families

Saturday, January 21, 2023
Robert Lang, WBAL NewsRadio 1090 and FM 101.5

The Helping Up Mission, which has provided housing and drug treatment for adults, will soon offer housing for mothers and their children.

It is a landmark on East Baltimore Street. For more than 100 years, the Helping Up Mission has been helping homeless and drug-addicted men get their lives back on track.

A few years ago, they opened a separate women’s shelter right up the street, and in a few weeks, the shelter will provide housing for mothers with children.

WBAL NewsRadio  talked about that this week with Dan Stoltzfus, the new CEO of the Helping Up Mission, for Sunday’s WBAL News Now Weekend Edition.

LISTEN: Dan Stoltzfus speaks with WBAL’s Robert Lang