Fairness as a Core Value. Let us start this message by defining fairness, and why has been chosen as one of the Core Values of community Homes (the other Core Values are truth, responsibility, hope, respect, compassion, and safety). Fairness is a noun, defined by the Oxford Dictionary as “impartial and just treatment or behavior…
Community Homes selects Jack Steele as May Resident of the Month. Our May Community Homes Resident of the Month is Jack Steele. He and his wife Charlotte have happily lived at Maple Terrace for the past four years. They share their comfortable one-bedroom apartment with their little dog Penelope, a Jack Russel/Poodle mix. She is…
Showing Respect. Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, rallied her fanbase and the Nation every time she performed her signature song R E S P E C T. It had special meaning to her, as it does to Community Homes. Respect is one of our core values and the topic for this edition of Charlie’s…
Coal Miner’s Daughter selected as Community Homes April Resident of the Month. Dottie Readler was born in 1935 into a life of sharing and caring. She is child number 13 of 15 in the family of Coal Miner Freas and Ruth Smith, a busy household to say the least, in the small town of Wapwollopen,…
One Hundredth Birthday brings feelings of hope and joy. It was one of those “you had to be there” moments….a special gathering in the Community Room of Poplar Terrace, one of the six senior apartment buildings owned and operated by Community Homes of Lebanon County The occasion – One hundred-year-old Irene Wike, surrounded by friends…
Local First Responders introduced to Life Emergency Access File for senior residents Community Homes of Lebanon County, a local leader in providing safe, affordable housing for senior citizens. The Resident Services staff assist elderly and disabled residents living in their affordable housing communities to identify, locate, and acquire the services necessary to remain self-sufficient. The…
Compassion at the heart of all we do. We take a close look at another of our Core Values this time – Compassion. The Miriam Webster dictionary gives us a nice concise definition – “Compassion is the sympathetic consciousness of other’s distress together with a desire to alleviate it.” At Community Homes we are focused…
It often begins with Hope. I love the word hope. It is one of our Core Values. According to the Miriam-Webster dictionary, “Hope, in general definition, means a desire for things to change for the better, and to want that better situation very much.” In the case of Community Homes and its pursuit of increasing…
In our last Charlie’s Corner blog, we elaborated on one of our Core Values – Truth. This time we turn our attention to another of our Core Values – Responsibility. It is a good and important value, and at Community Homes we live up to our responsibility in several important ways. When a new resident…
Core Value Truth If you are at all familiar with Community Homes, you know our organization is driven by its core values, the root beliefs and behaviors that we operate from, in all aspects of our existence. We are guided by our carefully conceived core values – Truth, Responsibility, Hope, Respect, Compassion, Fairness, and Safety.…
