System Office Colleague Giving Program

Love Gives to Our Communities

 

Give Today to Support Trinity Health’s System Office Colleague Emergency Assistance Program (CEAP)

Trinity Health's System Office Colleague Emergency Assistance Program (CEAP) is part of an overall wellness approach designed to nurture a culture that supports our ability to care for ourselves so we can better serve our patients. By caring for ourselves physically, mentally and spiritually, we can be at our best while we are at work and in other areas of our lives.

The CEAP helps alleviate financial stress for System Office colleagues in areas of need including food supply, medications, house fires, funerals, rent or house payments or utilities such as gas, electricity or water, essential transportation needs, medical bills, and travel associated with the approved items listed above to address the immediate extraordinary situation or need.

System Office Colleagues eligible for support through the CEAP receive assistance through a grant, not repaid by the colleague, to a third-party vendor, or a pay-roll advance, which is repaid through payroll deductions over 9-12 months. 

Through Trinity Health's System Office CEAP, from January to October 2023:

  • 84 colleagues have applied for CEAP funds
  • 79 colleagues qualified to receive funds
  • 61 colleagues received grant funds
  • 28 colleagues received loans guaranteed by the CEAP fund
  • 6 colleagues received both a grant and a loan

By supporting the CEAP, you help us respond with compassion and respect when System Office colleagues experience financial hardship.

 

   

 

Give Today to Support Trinity Health’s Community Health and Well-Being Fund: Social Care Initiatives

 

Sometimes it can be a struggle to maintain healthy behaviors and/or keep up with medical care because of unmet health related social needs – such as reliable and affordable transportation and childcare, and access to affordable housing, food, and medications. In fiscal year 2023, Trinity Health screened nearly 700,000 patients in primary care for social needs across our system with about 30% of those screened identifying at least one need.

Trinity Health's Social Care Program and Community Health Work (CHW) Hub help reduce social needs so that the people we serve – our patients, colleagues, and community members – get access to food, housing, healthcare, and other social services needed to stay healthy. Through their lived experiences, Community Health Workers work closely with our patients to assess their social needs, home environment, and other risk factors and ultimately connect patients to services within the community.

Additionally, we've created the Trinity Health Community Resource Directory, which is an online portal connecting those in need to free or reduced-cost health and social service resources within the community and across all Trinity Health locations. In fiscal year 2023, the Community Resource Directory yielded nearly 86,000 searches and provided over 3,000 referrals.

Money raised for the Community Health & Well-Being Fund during Love Gives 2023 will provide resources that promote the health and well-being of the people we serve. Here are some examples:

  • Preventing eviction and emergency rent/utility payments
  • Coordinating emergency food availability
  • Benefit Enrollment Support: Accompanying a visit to the county department for social services to apply for temporary housing assistance, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
  • On behalf of someone experiencing homelessness, who has diabetes – ensuring access to a refrigerator to safely store insulin
  • Primary Care for the uninsured/and or Medicaid Population
  • Medication delivery for persons unable to leave their home
  • Newborn baby needs (diapers, car seats, cribs)
  • Providing connections to temporary shelter and assisting with paperwork for permanent housing
  • Coordinating medical transportation, allowing patients the ability to keep appointments

 

Your support of the Community Health & Well-Being Fund is a lifeline for the people we serve in our communities.

Are you in need? We invite everyone we serve, our colleagues and community members, to access the Community Resource Directory by visiting https://communityresources.trinity-health.org/. Help is available.