Director’s Chair: Fiscal Year In Review
7/1/2022– 6/30/2023
On behalf of the board of directors and our many volunteers of Canandaigua Churches In Action, we want to thank our many supporters over the past year. It is through your kindness and generosity that we were able to help serve our many families in our community and throughout Ontario County.
It is through support like yours that we were able to serve 3,012 families with emergency food. The food pantry has membership in our local foodbank, Foodlink. The pantry is able to access 80% of our food supply from Foodlink. Additional food items will be purchased at our local grocery stores to help keep the shelves stocked.
In addition to walk in services, the CCIA Resource Room provided rental assistance to 50 families so they could stay in their apartment. The Resource room provide over 1,100 bus passes and 115 gas cards for those with transportation needs. We continue to offer job and housing search. We provide phone and computer use along with copying and faxing of documents. Fidelis Care, NY Law (SNAP) and Catholic Charities also provide services here at the Resource Room.
Supply A Smile Free Dental Program and Free Smile Day helped adults without dental insurance. SAS continues to hold monthly screenings at the Canandaigua Elementary School. We are thankful for the use of this facility. A special thank you to our many dentists, hygienists and office staff that make this possible.
The CCIA PES Back - Pack Program is partnering again with the Canandaigua School District and The Spot to provide additional food for 160 students during school breaks. Thank you to the staff at the Primary / Elementary School that help make this possible.
Again, thank you to all of our supporters over the past year. Whether you gave financially or held a food drive, your kindness and generosity has helped many lives here in our community.
May you stay safe and well,
Pastor Jeff
CCIA Executive Director
7/1/2022– 6/30/2023
On behalf of the board of directors and our many volunteers of Canandaigua Churches In Action, we want to thank our many supporters over the past year. It is through your kindness and generosity that we were able to help serve our many families in our community and throughout Ontario County.
It is through support like yours that we were able to serve 3,012 families with emergency food. The food pantry has membership in our local foodbank, Foodlink. The pantry is able to access 80% of our food supply from Foodlink. Additional food items will be purchased at our local grocery stores to help keep the shelves stocked.
In addition to walk in services, the CCIA Resource Room provided rental assistance to 50 families so they could stay in their apartment. The Resource room provide over 1,100 bus passes and 115 gas cards for those with transportation needs. We continue to offer job and housing search. We provide phone and computer use along with copying and faxing of documents. Fidelis Care, NY Law (SNAP) and Catholic Charities also provide services here at the Resource Room.
Supply A Smile Free Dental Program and Free Smile Day helped adults without dental insurance. SAS continues to hold monthly screenings at the Canandaigua Elementary School. We are thankful for the use of this facility. A special thank you to our many dentists, hygienists and office staff that make this possible.
The CCIA PES Back - Pack Program is partnering again with the Canandaigua School District and The Spot to provide additional food for 160 students during school breaks. Thank you to the staff at the Primary / Elementary School that help make this possible.
Again, thank you to all of our supporters over the past year. Whether you gave financially or held a food drive, your kindness and generosity has helped many lives here in our community.
May you stay safe and well,
Pastor Jeff
CCIA Executive Director
Director’s Chair: Fiscal Year In Review
7/1/2021 – 6/30/2022
As we close out our fiscal year, I wanted to take the opportunity to thank our member churches and local community for their support. We are truly blessed here at Canandaigua Churches in Action (CCIA) to have such a caring and giving community. Your commitment to support CCIA through financial giving, food donations is vital to the success of our mission to serve our community with the love and compassion of Christ. Without your support we could not accomplish what God has planned for us here in our community and throughout Ontario County.
I would like to give you a snap shot of what we have been able to accomplish with your support. The CCIA food pantry served emergency food to over 2,169 families. We are thankful for Pat and her team of volunteers that have kept the pantry doors open. We continue to receive 80% of our food supply from foodlink. We rely on our community to help make up the shortage.
CCIA continues to work with the Canandaigua Primary – Elementary School to provide back packs filled with meals for kids. We are able to purchase these through foodlink and have them deliverd directly to the school. The back packs are then handed out once a month by staff and volunteers. This school year we were able to provide 216 back packs each month. The cost for each monthly distribution is $725.16. We are thankful for all the school staff and volunteers who have helped to make this possible. We look to continue this program as the new school year starts soon.
The “Supply A Smile” Dental Program has changed in its approach to help individuals with free dental care. We are able to help provide dental care through our monthly screenings and the support of local dental offices that provide this needed care. Pastor Joan has also provided dental care by providing financial grants towards patient care. We are thankful to the Canandaigua School District that allows SAS the space to hold these free monthly screenings through the school year.
The Supply A Smile Dental Program was able to provide a yearly outreach, “Free Smile Day” on September 18th, 2021. We are thankful to Lux Dental which opened their doors to allow SAS to hold this event. We were able to help 100 individuals to receivce free dental care through this event. Special thanks to Pastor Joan Wood and all of the volunteers, office staff, dentists, and hygienists who made this possible.
Over the past 18 months CCIA supported our community as one of three designated mass food distribution sites for Ontario County. We are thankful to Zion Fellowship, as they allowed us to use their facility to host this distribution. Over 1,500 families were able to benefit from this distribution. This program ended in July 2021. We give thanks to the many volunteers who came and made this possible.
CCIA is looking to partner with Partnership of Ontario County, United Way and Zion Fellowship to offer a similar food distribution program called “Pop Up Pantry.” This once a month food distribution will help families to access additional food support. Foodlink will provide the food items and our volunteers will sort and distribute the food through a drive thru model at Zion Fellowship. Check our website for more inforamtion and dates of distribution.
The Resource Room is now open 3 days a week. We have expanded some of our services to include rental assistance, gas cards and bus passes. We have helped 16 individuals / families with rental assistance. We understand how important it is to keep families in their apartments. We have been able to hand out over 88 gas cards and over 300 bus passes to families. We also provide weekly job listings and computer support for those looking for employment and housing. We can help make copies and fax documents to help families. We have invited Fidelis Care and NY LAW to join us on site to help families with health insurance and SNAP (food stamps) applications.
We continue to work with other emergency providers in our community to help families in need. Some of those providers include, Catholic Charities of the Finger Lakes, Neighbor 2 Neighbor, St. Vincent DePaul, Care Net, and Salvation Army. We understand that by working together we can help meet the increasing needs of families in our community and throughout Ontario County.
A special thank you to all the volunteers who come and give of their time helping families. Without their dedication we could not provide these services to our community. Thank you, to those who have given through clothing drives, food drives, special events to benefit the food pantry and the Co-Op.
Thank you again for your support of CCIA,
Jeff Lippincott
CCIA Executive Director
7/1/2021 – 6/30/2022
As we close out our fiscal year, I wanted to take the opportunity to thank our member churches and local community for their support. We are truly blessed here at Canandaigua Churches in Action (CCIA) to have such a caring and giving community. Your commitment to support CCIA through financial giving, food donations is vital to the success of our mission to serve our community with the love and compassion of Christ. Without your support we could not accomplish what God has planned for us here in our community and throughout Ontario County.
I would like to give you a snap shot of what we have been able to accomplish with your support. The CCIA food pantry served emergency food to over 2,169 families. We are thankful for Pat and her team of volunteers that have kept the pantry doors open. We continue to receive 80% of our food supply from foodlink. We rely on our community to help make up the shortage.
CCIA continues to work with the Canandaigua Primary – Elementary School to provide back packs filled with meals for kids. We are able to purchase these through foodlink and have them deliverd directly to the school. The back packs are then handed out once a month by staff and volunteers. This school year we were able to provide 216 back packs each month. The cost for each monthly distribution is $725.16. We are thankful for all the school staff and volunteers who have helped to make this possible. We look to continue this program as the new school year starts soon.
The “Supply A Smile” Dental Program has changed in its approach to help individuals with free dental care. We are able to help provide dental care through our monthly screenings and the support of local dental offices that provide this needed care. Pastor Joan has also provided dental care by providing financial grants towards patient care. We are thankful to the Canandaigua School District that allows SAS the space to hold these free monthly screenings through the school year.
The Supply A Smile Dental Program was able to provide a yearly outreach, “Free Smile Day” on September 18th, 2021. We are thankful to Lux Dental which opened their doors to allow SAS to hold this event. We were able to help 100 individuals to receivce free dental care through this event. Special thanks to Pastor Joan Wood and all of the volunteers, office staff, dentists, and hygienists who made this possible.
Over the past 18 months CCIA supported our community as one of three designated mass food distribution sites for Ontario County. We are thankful to Zion Fellowship, as they allowed us to use their facility to host this distribution. Over 1,500 families were able to benefit from this distribution. This program ended in July 2021. We give thanks to the many volunteers who came and made this possible.
CCIA is looking to partner with Partnership of Ontario County, United Way and Zion Fellowship to offer a similar food distribution program called “Pop Up Pantry.” This once a month food distribution will help families to access additional food support. Foodlink will provide the food items and our volunteers will sort and distribute the food through a drive thru model at Zion Fellowship. Check our website for more inforamtion and dates of distribution.
The Resource Room is now open 3 days a week. We have expanded some of our services to include rental assistance, gas cards and bus passes. We have helped 16 individuals / families with rental assistance. We understand how important it is to keep families in their apartments. We have been able to hand out over 88 gas cards and over 300 bus passes to families. We also provide weekly job listings and computer support for those looking for employment and housing. We can help make copies and fax documents to help families. We have invited Fidelis Care and NY LAW to join us on site to help families with health insurance and SNAP (food stamps) applications.
We continue to work with other emergency providers in our community to help families in need. Some of those providers include, Catholic Charities of the Finger Lakes, Neighbor 2 Neighbor, St. Vincent DePaul, Care Net, and Salvation Army. We understand that by working together we can help meet the increasing needs of families in our community and throughout Ontario County.
A special thank you to all the volunteers who come and give of their time helping families. Without their dedication we could not provide these services to our community. Thank you, to those who have given through clothing drives, food drives, special events to benefit the food pantry and the Co-Op.
Thank you again for your support of CCIA,
Jeff Lippincott
CCIA Executive Director
FREE SMILE DAY 2022
Supply A Smile, Canandaigua Churches In Action & Lux Dental partnered to bring Free Smile Day to our community on Saturday, September 10, 2022.
Cheers! Go to our volunteers who made our 6th annual Free Smile Day a huge success!
All the volunteers came ready to be expressions of God’s love to those in need.
7 dentists, 7 hygienists, and many dental personnel provided services including cleanings, xrays, exams, fillings and extractions. In addition, 12 dental offices and supply companies provided the necessary supplies. A BIG THANK YOU to LUX Dental for opening their office to us!
The entire day was supported by area businesses donating food for the volunteers…to make this entire day completely free and bless so many people.
62 Patients were served with over $30,190 of free dental services.
A BIG THANKS to ALL who made this day possible! Smiles were everywhere! Being able to smile makes the world a happier place! A Smile is something you can give to others that’s Free!
It’s amazing what a smile can do!
Joan Wood RDH Founder and Director Supply A Smile Dental Program
Sponsors:
Sharon Atkins RDH Dr Josue Padilla
Addy Baker Paradise Dental Technologies
CDGA Churches in Action Patterson Dental Supplies/ Mike Parish
Rev Steve Charles Dr Spencer Phippen
Colgate Michele Rase RDH
Deanne Consul RDH Ray’s Restaurant
Dr Walter Deck Dr Brian Rheude
Dr Greg Gullo Carla Rumble RDH
Dr Geoff Halstead Dr Nicholas Schellatti
Michelle Henderson CDA Dr Brian Shaughnessy
Jill Hoose CDA Starbucks, Cdga
Komet Dental Supplies Supply A Smile
Dr Edson Lee United Methodist Church
Rev Jeff Lippinicott United Church
LUX Dental Wegmans
Mark’s Pizzeria Toni Winters CDA
McDonalds, Parkway Plaza Joan Wood RDH
Dr Sean Meitner Dr Lana Yurovskiy
LaDene Naujokas RDH Dr Albert Zak
New Covenant Baptist Church Kristine Zambrana RDH
Zion Fellowship
Supply A Smile, Canandaigua Churches In Action & Lux Dental partnered to bring Free Smile Day to our community on Saturday, September 10, 2022.
Cheers! Go to our volunteers who made our 6th annual Free Smile Day a huge success!
All the volunteers came ready to be expressions of God’s love to those in need.
7 dentists, 7 hygienists, and many dental personnel provided services including cleanings, xrays, exams, fillings and extractions. In addition, 12 dental offices and supply companies provided the necessary supplies. A BIG THANK YOU to LUX Dental for opening their office to us!
The entire day was supported by area businesses donating food for the volunteers…to make this entire day completely free and bless so many people.
62 Patients were served with over $30,190 of free dental services.
A BIG THANKS to ALL who made this day possible! Smiles were everywhere! Being able to smile makes the world a happier place! A Smile is something you can give to others that’s Free!
It’s amazing what a smile can do!
Joan Wood RDH Founder and Director Supply A Smile Dental Program
Sponsors:
Sharon Atkins RDH Dr Josue Padilla
Addy Baker Paradise Dental Technologies
CDGA Churches in Action Patterson Dental Supplies/ Mike Parish
Rev Steve Charles Dr Spencer Phippen
Colgate Michele Rase RDH
Deanne Consul RDH Ray’s Restaurant
Dr Walter Deck Dr Brian Rheude
Dr Greg Gullo Carla Rumble RDH
Dr Geoff Halstead Dr Nicholas Schellatti
Michelle Henderson CDA Dr Brian Shaughnessy
Jill Hoose CDA Starbucks, Cdga
Komet Dental Supplies Supply A Smile
Dr Edson Lee United Methodist Church
Rev Jeff Lippinicott United Church
LUX Dental Wegmans
Mark’s Pizzeria Toni Winters CDA
McDonalds, Parkway Plaza Joan Wood RDH
Dr Sean Meitner Dr Lana Yurovskiy
LaDene Naujokas RDH Dr Albert Zak
New Covenant Baptist Church Kristine Zambrana RDH
Zion Fellowship
SAS Award / Scroll down for CCIA Newsletters
Supply A Smile was recently awarded the 2019 Choose Health Ontario Award. We congratulate Pastor Joan and the SAS team of volunteers and the many professional that give of their time serving our community with dental care.
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