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January 20th, 2009

Welcome to my hobby and my passion!

This website was originally developed to help myself and friends of mine who work with the public, professionally and as volunteers, find the resources they need in one quick, easy place that could be accessed at anytime, day or night, in the privacy of their home or office.

This website has greatly expanded over the past 2 years, much larger & faster than I had originally anticipated, thanks to professionals from around S.E. Michigan, sharing their time and skills & helping me to investigate new (and re-verify older) resources. One of the main features of "Julie's List" is that I list not only public resources, but private ones as well! I search diligently for those that are for members of certain groups, religions, illnesses, disabilities etc.,

in order to provide ALL of us with the most complete listings possible.

Also, some social groups prefer services that are unique to their religion and/or culture. For instance, a Native-American may prefer to try traditional healing first when ill. Or a person may prefer medical or other services from their own cultural group for a variety of reasons, such as a person of Arabic, Asian or Jewish ancestry. Some services are only open to those who have served their country in the Armed Services and some are not open to those who are not legal U.S. citizens.

Is this information provided to "segregate" these potential clients? NO! There are over a hundred different cultures in S.E. Michigan alone using ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, and numerous other factors. This complete information is provided solely to give them a CHOICE.......

This website is completely independent and lists ALL resources currently known to the webmaster. It is not connected with or supported by, any particular group or agency. It is

a joint effort between myself and the site users who contribute in order to help each other. Beginning February 1st, 2009, I will begin accepting very limited advertising in order to support the costs of this website and keep it free for those that need it. I promise that the advertising

will NOT interfere with the information you have come to expect from this site and all sponsors will be identified as such and in a way that does not interfere with the usual functions of the site. Hopefully, you will make it a point to thank those sponsors for supporting this humanitarian effort!

I update this site several times a week and still have a great amount of resources to add to it....not including all the resources sent to me by all of you on a regular basis! Many of you have been quite generous in sharing your resources....I just wish I had time to get them ALL listed immediately as you send them! I do send out immediate e-mails to those on the mailing list when particularly terrific (or time-sensitive) events or resources come across my desk.

Metro Detroit has a tremendous amount of agencies and organizations to help its citizens. But with financial cutbacks due to the poor economy, its very difficult for these agencies & organizations to justify spending precious dollars for advertising that could instead be put to good use helping the clients who seek them out. "Julie's List" helps those agencies get the word out. This was not the original intent of the site but it was a nice little "extra"!

Please keep checking back!

Blessings!

Julie Kennedy-Carpenter

C.M.A./ B.S.

To suggest community/agency resources, email me at Add to JuliesList@yahoo.com

To join the Mailing List to receive "extra-special" free resources or limited-time resources,

also please e-mail on the above link. Please remember that this site does NOT give, lend

or sell your email address OR your personal information for any reason!