Groundbreaking News
Our 2024 Annual Report is Here!
Building for the Future
Creating a healthier future regularly requires digging up the past. Through several years of planning, praying, and taking all the necessary steps to move forward with construction at our 19th Ward clinic, we broke ground in March! This project led by the teams of MRB Group, DGA Builders, and Turner Engineering, will focus on increasing the number of medical and mental health counseling spaces, technological upgrades to staff offices, as well as updating both clinical and community spaces throughout. Funding for this project was awarded to us in 2022 as a part of the Omnibus Project and New York State Transformation funding.
If you’d like sneak peek of our spaces while under construction, we will have several limited opportunities for supporters like you to take a Hard Hat Tours beginning in June. Sign-ups are available HERE.
We’re thankful for our partners who have been inspecting, tracing, and creating spaces on the drawing board that will allow us to continue providing quality, accessible, and affordable healthcare for our neighbors. This project not only communicates the dignity and worth of our patients who will receive care here, but also the value of an oft neglected neighborhood. New spaces and fresh faces brings life to neighborhoods like ours. Please continue to pray for us as our team adjusts to limitations and changes in our space expected to last about 8 months.
Registration for our 2nd annual Fore Rochester Golf Tournament at Ravenwood Golf Club on September 15, 2025 is now open! We hope you will accept our invitation to join us for a day of fresh air, good food, great connection, and a chance to help us raise essential funds for equipment, supplies, and workforce required to open our new Beechwood location!
There are multiple opportunities for you to get involved! Grab some coworkers and friends to REGISTER a team. (Lunch, drinks and a gift are included.) On top of golfers, we are looking for prize DONATIONS (services, experiences, and exciting items) for a silent auction, which can be arranged by emailing Mike at mweston@hisbranches.org. We are also looking for new and returning SPONSORS. Sponsorships can be set up by clicking HERE or visiting hisbranches.org/golf, where you can determine the level of participation that best matches your ability to invest in our mission.
Not sure if you make it? A spin through our photo gallery and video from our 2024 tournament should help to push you across the line. Look forward to partnering with you for the good of Rochester!
Join Our Team!
Our team is growing, and we’re looking for quality individuals who are committed to our mission, passionate about helping people live healthier lives, and excited to join a team of people working together for the good of our neighborhoods. You can view detailed job descriptions and fill out an employee application on our website by clicking HERE.
Available Positions:
Advanced Practice Provider - (P.A. preferred, N.P considered)
Friendraising & Fundraising
The health of our community is about so much more than clinical health care. In January, we welcomed a special guest for an evening of delicious food and engaging conversation with author and local journalist, Justin Murphy. Justin walked us through some key topics from his book, Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger, and gave attendees an opportunity to discuss the impact that racism has had on neighborhood design, educational systems, and health of our neighbors here in Rochester.
Participants received a hot Chicken & Waffles dinner provided by our neighbor Norm, at the Arnett Cafe, and a copy of Justin’s book.
We hope to offer more community conversation opportunities to our Roots Members and supporters in the months to come.
“But if I shrink before the immenseness of the problem now, my children will find it even harder.”
Gathering with our friends, enjoying live music, hearing stories from our patients, staff, and supporters, all while raising support for mental health was exactly what we did at our second HBI x 3HB Fundraiser night on February 6.
That evening we were able to raise $1000 to help Top Us Off for our Light the Way mental health campaign to help us reach our goal, ensuring the funds necessary to expand our mental health program.
We’re excited to announce that as of April 2025, thanks to a number of donations, we reached our goal of $50,000!
Since the event in February, we have launched our Psychotherapy program, which is fully booked, and started providing pediatric (under age 12) mental health care. We are excited to add two more mental health rooms to our 19th Ward location this fall, and two more with our future Beechwood expansion. Your financial support during this campaign and beyond will impact many lives, young and old, creating access and growing hope for better mental health care.
Recommended Resource
“A podcast that explores the relationship between race and place; demography and geography. Together— in conversation with experts and neighbors— we’ll pull on the historical, social and spiritual threads that influence the ways we live in our cities and neighborhoods. “This Great and Complicated Place” is a production of Christianity Today Media and supported in part by Stand Together Trust and The Fetzer Institute.”
- www.christianitytoday.com
A special thanks to our newest members of The Roots Collective:
New Life Ministries
Sam & Leslie Huey
David Beinetti
Lawrence Farnand
Randy Arnold
Anna Pan
Ben Pearson (Enalas)
Rochester’s Cornerstone Group
Walter & Gail Johann
Eugene and Judy Young
Penny Crudup
Last Man Standing Club
Keith and Valerie Horn
Bill and Maureen Carpenter
Roger and Nancy Mack
Mark and Robin Kukla
If you’d like to give a financial gift, learn more about how to join The Roots Collective, or find out how donor dollars are utilized toward our mission, visit our website today!
Drink good coffee. Support good work.
Our Neighborhood Blend coffee is available on the shelf and online (local pickup or shipping available!) at
New City Cafe.
Make sure you have some quality local coffee on hand for Mother’s Day, and grab some as gifts for those graduating high school students entering college or the workforce!
Enjoy this His Branches vibes playlist
with your cup of coffee: