This year we are hoping to raise $40,000, as we have been averaging 1,186 counseling sessions per month, and in the 2021-2022 school year, we screened more than 2,200 students through the TeenHope program.

More recently, though, grief specialists have begun to say that grief does not follow predictable stages. And that “closure,” as we call it, may not be possible or even desirable.

Change. Transition. Transformation. Although these words sound like the same thing, each one expresses different aspects of our human experience.

In the previous 2021-2022 school year, TeenHope screened more than 2,200 middle and high school students in Lancaster and Lebanon counties.

Learn more about Samaritan’s director of consulting, as well as what advice he would give business owners and leaders today.

To meet the increasing needs for counseling, consultation for businesses, and TeenHope, we have welcomed a number of new team members!

We live in an era characterized by uncertainty, fear, and increasing isolation in the face of change. Human history is rife with examples of reactivity toward change at both the individual and the collective levels.

Through the past two years, we have collectively experienced numerous challenges in our personal lives, our communities, our nation and our world. With no clear end in sight, many of us feel worn out and emotionally uneasy. We need an infusion of something positive to recharge ourselves.

One Thanksgiving Day morning in 2014 my wife, an ordained deacon at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, received a phone call from the rector’s wife. “I need you to come in to the ICU with me. Please come.”

Being a dancer my whole life, I am very familiar with the physicality of rebounding after falling to the floor or bouncing back out of a partner’s hold or using momentum to launch out of gravity’s pull. I didn’t realize these lessons would extend into my life.