We were delighted when the UNC Office of Human Resources (OHR) Social Committee visited Family House to drop off food and financial donations collected from the office staff. OHR representatives stayed to connect with House guests, hearing stories of patients and their loved ones who ha… Read More

Next time you visit Family House, check out the temporary walls near the house managers’ office and the kitchen. Guests, volunteers, and staff are writing hopeful messages to one another on this provisional walling. These endearments and tributes lift the spirits of everyone who walks … Read More

Financial support of the SECU Family House's Annual Fund is critical to filling a statewide need for housing while traveling to Chapel Hill for medical treatment. Family House guests pay what they can, but donations make up the difference between what they can afford and the nightl… Read More

Almost daily, Family House guests are treated to delectable, home-cooked meals that are lovingly prepared by an array of volunteer meal providers. On a recent Saturday evening, members from the Der & Cox Labs at UNC’s Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center prepared an&nbs… Read More

SECU Family House at UNC Hospitals counts more than 100 regular volunteers who keep our 34,000 square foot hospitality house running. It was an honor for us to treat them to several events during National Volunteer Appreciation Week, April 16 through 22 this year. On Tuesday, dozens of vol… Read More

Ron and Donetta have a love story that has to be shared. Highschool sweethearts, they’ve been married for 47 years. With their ever-present humor, they are each other’s rock through the best of times and through the worst of times. Forty-four years ago the Livesays moved to Nags… Read More

  Our annual Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast was held on Wednesday, May 2 at the NC Botanical Garden, a beautiful space that can be found just across Old Mason Farm Road from SECU Family House at UNC Hospitals. For several years now, Family House has honored our volunteers a… Read More

For the past several years, a group of managers, supervisors, and directors from The Cedars of Chapel Hill, a continuing care retirement community, converge upon our kitchen to prepare a nutritious and delicious breakfast for our guests and staff. Armed with bags of food, they break out the … Read More

In the US, one in two women and one in three men will be diagnosed with cancer. Such was the case with Willard Manning. Hailing from Laurinburg, North Carolina, he was diagnosed with acute leukemia. Willard thought he'd never get cancer, especially since no one in his family had ever been di… Read More

Janice McAdams, our Executive Director here at SECU Family House at UNC Hospitals, envisioned yet another way our organization could serve the community: by lending our board room to local support groups needing a place to hold meetings. Two years later, two dozen support groups me… Read More