Hoosier Hills Food Bank
Are you 60 or older? Do you need food?
Hoosier Hills Food Bank gives food boxes and cheese to Brown County seniors on the senior food box program. The senior food boxes are provided through the Commodity Supplemental Food Program, a USDA program to provide low-income seniors with extra food.
Each senior on CSFP gets two 40-pound boxes of nonperishable foods and blocks of cheese every other month. The food includes juice, cereal, shelf-stable milk, canned fruits and vegetables, and canned meat.
To sign up for CSFP, come to Mother’s Cupboard Community Kitchen on the third Tuesday of every other month from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. You will need a photo ID and proof of address to sign up for CSFP. Seniors must be Brown County residents and meet income requirements to qualify.
Call (812) 334-8374 or email [email protected] for the next date that CSFP senior food boxes are available.
Recovery and Wellness Coalition
Brown County Wellness and Recovery Coalition meets on the second Thursday of each month from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Salmon Room at the County Office Building, 201 Locust Lane. The meetings are open to the public.
For more information, contact Leyla Davis at [email protected].
Recovery meetings
An Alcoholics Anonymous literature group meets every Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Fieldhouse on East Washington Street.
Faith-based recovery meetings take place on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. at Faithful Gospel Church, 6881 State Road 135 North, and on Fridays at 7 p.m. at the Brown County Community Church, 2370 W. Main St. in Helmsburg.
Battlefield for Freedom addiction recovery meetings take place from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesdays at New Life Community Church, 1450 State Road 135 North. They will have a 12-Step Book Study on first Tuesdays of the month.
Al-Anon meetings take place Wednesdays at 10 a.m. at the Brown County YMCA, 105 Willow St.
Recover Out Loud meetings take place on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. at Faithful Gospel Church.
Narcotics Anonymous literature group is open every Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Parkview Church of the Nazarene, 1750 State Road 46 East.
A closed AA Grapevine group meets every Friday at 10 a.m. at Nashville United Methodist Church, 36 S. Jefferson St., in the basement.
NA group meetings are open every Thursday and Sunday at 7 p.m. at the Parkview Church of the Nazarene, 1750 State Road 46 East.
Family meetings of AA/NA/AL-ANON are open every Sunday at 10 a.m. at the Sycamore Valley Senior Center, 746 Memorial Drive.
A 12-step-based recovery group has three meeting times and locations in the county. The group meets at the following times and locations:
Brown County Community Church, 2370 W. Main St. in Helmsburg, first Fridays, 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Heart of Christ Ministries, 5181 State Road 46 East, first and third Tuesdays, 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Faith Full Gospel Church, second and fourth Tuesdays, 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Dinner is provided and childcare is available.
For more information, call Jim Ackerman at (812) 606-7355 or Toni Brumley at (812) 269-0757.
Weekly food pantry
GNAW BONE — The Pentecostals, 60 Mt. Liberty Road, have a food pantry open every Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m. For more information, call (812) 200-3136.
TRIAD
Are you concerned about a loved one?
Project Lifesaver International, founded in 1999, is a private not-for-profit organization, working with search and rescue teams nationwide.
TRIAD was awarded a grant from the Brown County Community Foundation in 2021, to partner with our local sheriff’s department, to bring this training and technology to Brown County.
Individuals in the program wear a personalized, wrist-watch-sized radio transmitter that allows first responders to rapidly locate them. The sheriff’s department has received training on how to operate the tracking equipment. Additionally, the sheriff’s department has added drone technology, which can aid in rapidly covering difficult ground.
The sheriff’s department has also received specialized training on ways to address behavioral and communication challenges specific to people with a variety of cognitive conditions.
This training is a bridge critical to gaining the person’s trust and facilitating a safe return home.
The cost of the program is borne by the sheriff’s department, TRIAD, and is affordable to individual families. The foundation grants, of which three were received, offset the cost of the program to individuals, either in part or in full. We do no means testing, but let families choose their level of financial ability. The program is completely voluntary and one can enter or exit the program at any time.
To get more information, please call TRIAD, at (812) 988-0109 and leave a message.
Humane Society
The Brown County Humane Society is accepting monetary donations for several of its funds.
Donations are being accepted for the Medical Fund, SPOT Fund, Promise Fund and SPOT Endowment Fund. Memorial and honorary donations as well as Sponsor a Pet are also available.
These funds and donations help the humane society with everything from extraordinary medical expenses to ensuring the shelter animals are well-fed.
Those interested in donating can visit bchumane.org/donate. A detailed description of funds is available on the page.
Foster grandparents
Thrive Alliance and AmeriCorps Seniors are looking for foster grandparents for their children.
Thrive Alliance and AmeriCorps Seniors work with public and faith-based schools, Head Start Centers and youth-serving facilities in five counties, including Brown, being role models, mentors, tutors and friends.
Those interested should call (812) 374-2711, (812) 372-6918, or visit fostergrandparentsthrive.org.
Compassionate Friends
Have you or someone you know experienced the loss of a child? If so, Compassionate Friends in Nashville hopes you will consider attending their meetings. All families and family members, regardless of the reason for the loss of your child, are welcome. Even though there are a variety of grief groups in the area, meeting participants will tell you that losing a child presents very different challenges than those one faces when losing a spouse, parent, or close friend.
The South-Central Indiana Chapter of Compassionate Friends will meet on the third Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. The meetings will take place at the Nashville United Methodist Church.
The agenda for monthly meetings is driven primarily by the questions and needs of those in attendance. Even though the group meets in a church, Compassionate Friends is not affiliated with any religious denomination, and it does not promote religious viewpoints.
We do not charge fees or dues to attend a Compassionate Friends monthly meeting, although “love gifts” offered in memory of our lost children are welcome and will be used to help pay for materials used to spread the word about our local chapter, which is one of just three in the state.
Please call (765) 490-0789 and leave a message or email [email protected] if you have questions about CF or want to talk about anything related to the loss of your child, whether your loss is recent or happened months or years ago. Please leave a message and phone number or email address and a member of our chapter will follow up, usually in 24 hours or less.
God’s Grace Ministry
God’s Grace, sponsored by Brown County Presbyterian Fellowship, has provided free clothing, linens and toiletries to Brown County since 2008. The group works with social services agencies, first responders and schools to get residents what they need.
The ministry is accepting donations of clothing, toiletries and money. The ministry is also accepting volunteers. Those interested in volunteering or wishing to donate should contact Mary Kilgore at (812) 720-1187.
God’s Grace is open the first Monday of each month from 4 to 6 p.m. and every Wednesday from noon to 3 p.m.
Services are also available by appointment in case of emergencies.
God’s Grace is located on the second level of the Brown County Presbyterian Fellowship, 602 State Road 135 North.
Raptor Center
Indiana Raptor Center is taking donations to help fund and support our wild raptor rescue operations. This is a critical time of year for us typically due to the influx of baby raptors that starts in April and goes until the end of July — then we get birds that are on their own at too young of an age and need life support. That will go from August until January. Also, we receive a lot of adult hawks, owls and eagles that have had unfortunate encounters with people, through car accidents, barbed wire fences, shootings (which are illegal), poisoning and trap accidents. These adults are important to finish raising the current generation of raptors, which will suffer an almost 70 percent attrition rate during their first winter. As important as raptors are to supporting agribusiness through natural rodent control, we need to support their lives and life cycles.
All of these animals need to eat meat daily. We feed rats, mice, steak, chicken, venison, day-old chicks, and fish. Supporting raptor patients is relatively expensive due to the fact that they are all meat-eaters — no birdseed for these guys! They also oftentimes need vet visits and surgery.
If you could support us financially at this time, or any time, we would be very grateful. You may do this in the following ways:
Mail a check to Indiana Raptor Center, PO Box 1153, Nashville IN, 47448.
Go to our website indianaraptorcenter.org and use the donation button to give through Paypal.
Call us at (812) 988-8990 to donate using a credit card.
