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Security Savings Bank Helps Ensure Special Needs Adults Have Caring Homes

Security Savings Bank Helps Ensure Special Needs
Adults Have Caring Homes

January 22, 2007

ASHEBORO – Security Savings Bank has joined a community effort to ensure adults with developmental disabilities in the Randolph County area have a caring home for years to come. The bank has given a sizeable contribution towards the construction of the Asheboro-based group home to be operated by Baptist Children’s Homes of North Carolina (BCH).

“Security Savings Bank is proud to be able to give back to the community in such a positive way,” said Security Savings Bank senior vice president Henry Edmund. Security Savings Bank operates two branches in Randolph County. “We are excited to join with the Baptist Children's Home in such a special project. This is what the Bank feels giving is all about.”

BCH’s Developmental Disabilities Ministry (DDM) provides long-term residential care and opportunities for residents to achieve goals and reach their highest level of independence in community-based, gender-specific group homes. The facility is being built in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). BCH will operate the home, providing the services and the staff. It will be built on the Cross Road Retirement Community campus which is owned by Cross Road Baptist Church.

BCH is in the process of raising $175,000 for the project. Asheboro businessman Michael Ayers, who has a daughter with developmental disabilities, is serving as campaign chairperson.

Edmund and local Security Savings Bank representatives presented a check to BCH at the site of the future home. The contribution goes to the completion of the facility’s carport which will have a sign honoring the bank’s participation.

“Security Savings Bank’s generous gift will accomplish much more than assist in the construction of a building,” said BCH president Michael C. Blackwell. “They are helping to provide a home for some very special adults, and we appreciate their commitment to the Asheboro community.”

Since 1885, Baptist Children’s Homes of North Carolina has helped children and families in crisis. BCH began with one campus, Mills Home in Thomasville, but now provides services in communities across the state.

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