When Grace’s anxiety became too big to wrap her arms around, she turned to Amberwing – Center for Youth & Family Well-Being. There, she learned the skills to breathe through difficult moments while feeling validated and supported along the way.

Amberwing — Center for Youth & Family Well-Being was created by the Miller-Dwan Foundation to provide the greatest level of compassion and skill, in the most welcoming of healing environments. Set in a restful wooded area, Amberwing brings together the combined resources of community philanthrophy and a health system to create a national model for effective mental health care.

A travel and outdoors enthusiast in his 70s, Eliot had no plans to slow down or cut back on his daily three-mile hikes. Then, a Parkinsonism diagnosis changed everything.

When it feels like everything is closing in at once, who do you entrust with the care of your beloved grandmother—the one who made everyone around her feel so special? For Jessie and her dad Bruce, Solvay Hospice House became a beacon of compassion, understanding and peace for their Evelyn at the most difficult time.

COVID-19 knocked Wayne down, hard and fast. Over the next 3 months, he slowly got back up with the steady help of a dedicated team of rehabilitation specialists who were learning, like the rest of the world, how to adjust during a pandemic.

Getting kids in speech therapy to open up and engage isn’t always easy. But having a cheery black Lab retriever there to greet you and learn alongside you can help. That’s what speech pathologist Chelsea hoped for when she sought out a facility dog.

When it comes to traumatic burn injuries—the kind caused by extreme heat and cold, chemicals, electricity and more—the right care can make a life-or-death difference.

Esther died alone, in a motel room. It was a cold, murky morning. The hotel was small and cheap and located just off the freeway.

When your world is changing fast, both inside and around you, it helps to have the right people and skills to lean on. Kale Pierson and his family found that at just the right time.

Nova isn’t a medical expert, she just really knows how to love, says Jack Lee, her owner and trainer.

Kristin Chederquist embraced some of the biggest challenges with bold love. In the last days of her life, Solvay Hospice House offered Kristin and her family space to experience dignity, comfort and peace.

Emotional pain from the past can splash into life and relationships without warning. To brace those waves, the Fermenich family tunes into faith, humor and the tools they learned from Amberwing – Center for Youth & Family Well-Being.

Alina Beer cared for her husband for seven years. Married 15 years, the cancer diagnosis was a devastating blow.

Before the accident, Tammy Jensen’s typical day was a busy, noisy, go-get-’em affair. The mother of two zipped back and forth from Buhl to Duluth, Minnesota for work, where she saw orthodontics patients each day

Julia Koepp is a seventeen-year-old student, artist and mental health advocate who found help for anxiety at Amberwing – Center for Youth & Family Well-Being.
She wants to go into the mental health care field when she graduates. For now, she’s using her voice—and her art—to share messages of support and healing.

When the health of someone you love is diminishing, you want to give them more time somehow. Those were the feelings of Jim Larson and his four boys when they decided—along with their beloved wife and mom, Alice—that it was time to move her to Solvay Hospice House.

Miller-Dwan Foundation has added psychotherapist Rick Gertsema, MS, LP to its staff to help it develop and launch initiatives that will allow it to leverage its unique strengths to create a healthy, vibrant, resilient community free from mental health crisis.