Author: Phil de Haan

D&HHS Continues to Respond to COVID-19 The impact of COVID-19 has been immense and devastating on a worldwide scale. For […]

Teens Learn to Cook at the YMCA For 11 area teenagers, a recent cooking class at the Mary Free Bed […]

Tuesday Group. “It’s Perfect.” On many Tuesdays at Deaf & Hard of Hearing Services (D&HHS), a small group of folks […]

Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services Partners with Ferris State University to Bring Education and Awareness to Pharmacists in Michigan […]

Deaf & Hard of Hearing Services coordinates professional American Sign Language interpreting services for courts, hospitals, colleges, state and county government, mental health agencies, performing arts venues, conference facilities and all types of businesses, filling approximately 400 assignments per month in 27 counties.

The 2019 edition of the annual Deaf Santa event was one of the best ones yet.

A record-number 57 children came to the early-December event and were joined by parents, grandparents, friends and more, bringing the total number of attendees to 120-130. Add in another 30 volunteers, including five D&HHS board members, plus coverage from three local media outlets, and it all made for a fun and festive two hours, including gifts, crafts, a signed story reading and, of course, time with Santa.

For the past year Deaf & Hard of Hearing Services has been receiving checks from an unusual source: a bass and electronic dance music (EDM) event in Grand Rapids called Bass Country.
Bass Country was held four times in 2019 at The Intersection, a live music venue in downtown Grand Rapids. D&HHS benefited after each event.

When Kelly Lepley wanted his middle school social studies students at Innocademy, a charter school in Zeeland, Michigan, to learn more about Deaf culture, he knew who to contact: Deaf & Hard of Hearing Services (D&HHS).