champions place news
November 2023
remembering you with thanksgiving!
As we enter the holiday season this Thanksgiving, we are reminded of you. We cannot express the depths of our gratitude for your ongoing support of Champions Community Foundation and all the individuals impacted by your generosity.
Through hundreds of volunteer hours and countless meals, you have served our Titan and Champions Place community with overwhelming love and compassion. Through your financial support, you have allowed us to expand and serve even more young people in bigger and more impactful ways.
Our Titan Program welcomed many new Titans to our community and was host to over 30 wheelchair sports and social events – 30 opportunities to turn isolation and loneliness into community and friendships.
Our Champions Community Connect program is now being launched and will provide our Titans the opportunity to be together on-line almost every day of the week with activities such as bible study, watching movies, playing trivia and UNO, book club or just hanging out enjoying time together.
Our Champions Place residents were provided with affordable rent, food and staff oversight. As individuals with very modest fixed incomes, this allowed our residents to fully embrace their life of independence and relieved financial strain.
The Champions Place@Home program was installed in 15 Titan homes enabling a new level of self-reliance - not having to ask their parents for help with turning on lights, playing music, watching TV, calling friends and family, seeing who rang the doorbell, adjusting room temperature and more.
....and, we are leading an effort working with many Georgia families, allies and our Medicaid team to answer the question, "What will happen to me when my parents are no longer capable of managing all the services I need?" We are making great progress in developing a new service to address this need and hope to share more good news in the near future.
We try to say Thank You regularly. But we’ll say it again – Thank you! Thank you for changing lives and walking alongside our board, staff, volunteers and families.
Thank you for being OUR Champion!