Health Law Partnership

Erlanger Health Law Partnership places an attorney into the medical setting, mitigating these barriers and building on the trust developed in the physician-patient relationship.  See More. www.erlanger.org/ehlpBy placing a poverty law attorney from Legal Aid of East Tennessee directly into Erlangers main location on the Barones’s Campus.  EHLP aims to help patients with issues such…

Alstrom Angels

Alstrom Syndrome is a very rare genetic disease that affects children by causing complete blindness, deafness, type 2 diabetes, dilated cardiomyopathy, congestive heart failure, COPD, kidney and liver failure.  It is one of the most brutal diseases there is, as it touches every organ in the body. Most children are lost in their late teens…

Legal Aid of East Tennessee

The mission of Legal Aid of East Tennessee is to ensure equal justice for elderly, abused, and low-income people by providing a broad scope of civil legal assistance and advocacy.  Serving Bledsoe, Bradley, Blount, Carter, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hamilton, Hancock, Hawkins, Jefferson, Johnson, Knox, and many more counties. read more www.laet.org. This agency might help…

How a Service Dog for My Son With Autism Impacted My Career

 By Skyler Phillips July 3, 2017 Some people dream of doing great things in their life, that was never me, but I believe sometimes God has plans for our lives we never see coming. As a veteran firefighter, I thought I was doing enough to serve my community, until one day all that changed. In 2010…

LifeLine Loses Friend & Board Member Randy Payne

The last line of LifeLine’s charter summarizes the purpose of all of the preceding lines: “To share the love of Jesus Christ and the Biblical concept of the value of all human life with everyone who makes contact with this organization in word and deed.” I don’t know many people whose life epitomized that last…

UI Reach Program

“The University of Iowa REACH Program is a two-year, transition certificate program for students with multiple intellectual, cognitive, and learning disabilities. UI REACH provides a campus experience to empower young adults to become independent, engaged members of the community. Courses, campus life, and career preparation assist students in reaching their full potential. UI REACH strives to maintain periodic contact…

LifeLine Launches First Responder Training

LifeLine™ Launches SNAP First Responder Training SNAP  – Special Needs Awareness Program Chattanooga, Tennessee: LifeLine™ launched its new Special Needs Awareness Program (“SNAP”) on Monday, January 9, 2017, with the first of a planned multi week training for the Chattanooga Fire Department.  For several years training and information on specific diagnoses or disability groups has…

Welcome Intern Kate Moreau!

My name is Kate Moreau and I am a junior at Covenant College, where I am studying elementary education. I am originally from Wheaton, Illinois but have lived in the Chattanooga area since I started at Covenant a few years ago. I came to Covenant with the intention of becoming a public elementary school teacher,…