United Crescent Hill Ministries (UCHM)

United Crescent Hill Ministries (UCHM) Serving youth, families, and seniors in the Crescent Hill, Clifton, Clifton Heights neighborhoods

We are one of 13 community based ministries in Louisville, UCHM serves the neighborhoods of Crescent Hill, Clifton, Clifton Heights, and Butchertown in the 40206 zip code.

Come join the fun Thursday, Sept. 10 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
09/07/2026

Come join the fun Thursday, Sept. 10 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.


Come visit UNITED CRESCENT HILL MINISTRIES, 150 S. State Street, just off Frankfort Avenue, for Community Coffee & Tour ...
09/07/2026

Come visit UNITED CRESCENT HILL MINISTRIES, 150 S. State Street, just off Frankfort Avenue, for Community Coffee & Tour (and yummy treats, too!) from 8:30 a.m. to noon Wednesday, Sept. 9.

Al Jarboe had seen it before. People in grief fall apart. His mother, abandoned by her husband with two children to rais...
09/07/2026

Al Jarboe had seen it before. People in grief fall apart. His mother, abandoned by her husband with two children to raise, lost her grip.
His sister, too. When her husband died, she had to be hospitalized.
Then, in 2017, it was his turn to fight the darkness. “I’m just cracking up sitting here, talking to myself and just crying.”
He’d lost Donnittia, his wife of 52 years, the woman who won his heart with a milkshake.
Al Jarboe at 91, in some ways, is the same as he was in his twenties. He loved to dance then, and he loves it now.
He went to a dance every weekend, but one changed his life when it got rowdy. He took a fist to the jaw, and it broke. Once it was wired shut for healing, he could barely eat. Every morning since he began working at the American Printing House, Al would stop at the Mellwood Dairy. The young woman in charge took one look at him and had an idea to help him: Milkshakes. If Al came in, Donnittia would make him one, adding the eggs Al brought in from his mother’s chickens.
It was the start of a romance. Marriage soon followed. Eventually, he restored three junk cars and sold them, giving the couple a down payment on a fire-damaged house in Clifton Heights. They worked together getting the house in shape in time for the birth of Rodney. Michael’s birth followed a few years later.
“I was really happy to be a father. I was right happy to have children,” Al says. “And she was too.”
Donnittia never liked to sit still, and their Cleveland Avenue home is vivid with her creativity: But most remarkable are her quilts, one on each bed and stacks more tucked everywhere.
“She made something every day,” Al said. “She was a genius.” And when she retired, she’d be up late into the night, the sewing machine humming.
Then cancer came. Then silence.
Slowly he remembered United Crescent Hill Ministries, where his sister had gone. He walked in and met with Monique Shaughnessy, coordinator of UCHM’s 60-plus program. He comes to every event, and every time there’s music, there’s Al on the dance floor with a woman in his arms.

Be Our Safety Net so United Crescent Hill Ministries can be the safety net for our community. Mark your calendars for Se...
09/04/2026

Be Our Safety Net so United Crescent Hill Ministries can be the safety net for our community. Mark your calendars for Sept. 10 and Give For Good. Even a $10 donation makes an impact.


Be Our Safety Net this year and help United Crescent Hill Ministries be the Safety Net to our neighbors. Mark your calen...
09/04/2026

Be Our Safety Net this year and help United Crescent Hill Ministries be the Safety Net to our neighbors. Mark your calendars to give Sept. 10. Even $10 makes an impact.

A week from today, be ready to Give for Good to United Crescent Hill Ministries. Even small gifts make a huge difference...
09/03/2026

A week from today, be ready to Give for Good to United Crescent Hill Ministries. Even small gifts make a huge difference. We can provide enough groceries to feed a meal to a family of four for as little as $15.


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We're 8 days from Give for Good. Why wait until Sept. 10 to give?1) Dollar-for-dollar matching funds.2) Prizes for vario...
09/02/2026

We're 8 days from Give for Good.
Why wait until Sept. 10 to give?
1) Dollar-for-dollar matching funds.
2) Prizes for various donations, such as the Greatest 2 MInutes in Giving, from 7:15 p.m. to 7:17 p.m.
3) Prizes for the number of donors we get.
4) To be part of the excitement!
Give to UCHM on Sept. 10.


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Brittany Horn was poised for change. She’d spent the last 40 days on leave from her supervisory job at Norton Hospital w...
09/01/2026

Brittany Horn was poised for change. She’d spent the last 40 days on leave from her supervisory job at Norton Hospital while undergoing addiction treatment in an Indiana recovery center.
She’d learned so much. But now she felt like someone who had swerved to miss a crash only to end up teetering on a cliff edge. She was behind on her rent and behind on her utility bill.
The partial pay she received while on Family and Medical Leave covered only some of her expenses while she was in treatment. But her car was about to be repossessed. A month later, she totaled it. She still owed $6,600.
And she was back in the same environment that dragged her back into addiction after four years drug-free.
For all the self-discovery that treatment brought, this was real life: three kids – 11, 10 and 8 – a job, and creditors lining up for payment.
The old Brittany would have hidden in the bathroom to indulge in the drug that, when she was using, convinced her she was super-mom and super-employee.
This time, she came to UCHM.
Within 24 hours of contacting United Crescent Hill Ministries, she was approved for rental assistance. UCHM wasn’t at all what she had expected, she said. Usually asking for help requires at least one day off work.
“Then you have to have all these printed-out documents of the kids’ birth certificates. It’s so much, you’re almost like, I would rather struggle and figure it out rather than ask for help. But at [UCHM] it was so smooth. Everybody was so nice.”
A few months later, she contacted United Crescent Hill Ministries again about her LG&E bill. Forty-eight hours later, she learned UCHM had covered more than $200 of her debt.
Free from the pressure of eviction and utility shut-off, Brittany finally had the stability she needed to plan for a better, safer future for her and her children.
“I remind myself that my kids and I deserve a better life with less chaos than the life with substance gave me.”

Only 9 days until Sept. 10 and Give For Good. Texting the words SafetyNet or UCHMGive4Good on Sept. 10 to 1 (844) 844-68...
09/01/2026

Only 9 days until Sept. 10 and Give For Good. Texting the words SafetyNet or UCHMGive4Good on Sept. 10 to 1 (844) 844-6844 is one way to give to United Crescent Hill Ministries.


Address

150 S State St
Louisville, KY
40206

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 6pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 6pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 6pm
Thursday 8:30am - 6pm
Friday 8:30am - 6pm

Telephone

+15028930346

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